Product Operations Manager, Maritime

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

The Maritime team at Anduril builds world-class autonomous maritime platforms - undersea and surface vehicles and systems and seabed sensors.

As a Product Operations Manager for Maritime, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability and readiness of Anduril’s Maritime products.

Responsibilities

• Lead Product Operations: Guide and mentor a high-performing Product Operations team, setting the standard for how we triage, diagnose, and resolve technical incidents across our global Maritime fleet.
• Drive Fleet Reliability: Partner directly with software and hardware engineering teams to translate real-world field telemetry and failure data into permanent system upgrades and design improvements.
• Analyze System Telemetry: Oversee the collection and analysis of fleet health data using advanced data-driven tools, helping to predict and prevent failures before they happen.
• Bridge the Gap: Act as the critical translator between deeply technical engineering teams, business development stakeholders, and military operators in the field.
• Customer & Mission Support: Ensure exceptional technical support for our global users, managing communications around high-priority incidents and driving them to rapid resolution.
• Build the Playbook: Standardize and scale our sustainment operations, creating the processes that will support Maritime as the fleet grows exponentially worldwide.

Requirements

• Proven Technical Leadership: 6+ years of professional experience managing, mastering, and supporting complex technical systems (maritime, aerospace, robotics, automotive, defense, or electromechanical systems).
• Education: Bachelor's degree in a technical or related field, OR equivalent hands-on military, maritime, or industrial technical experience.
• Problem-Solving Mindset: A proven ability to navigate ambiguous situations and lead teams through complex, unstructured technical challenges.
• Leadership & Mentorship: Experience managing, coaching, or leading technical teams, with a focus on professional development and operational excellence.
• Clearance & Location: Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret Security clearance, and based in (or willing to relocate to) the Costa Mesa, CA area.
• Travel: Ability to travel as needed to support customer operations and test events.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting and/or deploying undersea munitions, vehicles, or unmanned undersea systems (UUVs) as a DoD contractor or military end-user.
• Familiarity with conventional naval systems or military naval operations.
• Hands-on experience with Linux command-line interfaces (CLI).
• Familiarity with modern observability and ticketing tools (such as Grafana, Jira, or Git).
• Experience leveraging data analytics (such as SQL or Palantir Foundry) to conduct trend analysis and drive business decisions.
• Prior military, DoD civilian, or government agency experience.
• A background in technical project management or operations consulting.

Benefits

Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including a comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) that ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.