Technical Program Manager, Maritime International Deployments

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

The Seabed Sentry team is responsible for Maritime Domain Awareness providing subsea autonomous sensing and communication across critical commercial and defense mission sets.

As the next Technical Program Manager, you will lead international deployment execution for a maritime undersea domain awareness program.

Responsibilities

• Own planning, scheduling, and execution of international system deployments and demonstrations for undersea domain awareness capabilities.
• Build and maintain program schedules in Jira, ensuring milestones, dependencies, and critical path items are current and visible to all stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain milestone trackers, risk registers, and action item burndowns across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Drive technical alignment across hardware, software, and systems engineering teams to ensure deployment-ready configurations meet customer requirements.
• Prepare and deliver technical briefings and program status reviews to international customers, senior leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Coordinate logistics for international hardware shipments including export compliance, temporary import/permanent export documentation, and customs coordination.
• Identify and manage risks and dependencies across engineering, supply chain, compliance, and operations , escalate early and with proposed mitigations.
• Translate customer requirements into actionable engineering tasking and ensure product teams understand the operational context behind what they're building.
• Keep Jira updated as the single source of truth for schedule status , ensure sprint planning, epic tracking, and program milestones reflect reality, not aspirations.
• Drive alignment across stakeholders who don't always agree , get decisions made, documented, and executed.
• Support contract amendment processes, milestone payment tracking, and deliverable acceptance with the customer.
• Document product baselines, configuration states, and deployment readiness criteria in Confluence.
• Operate as the single point of accountability for deployment readiness , if something isn't tracking, you own the recovery plan.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical program management experience, preferably in defense, maritime, or aerospace.
• Demonstrated ability to manage international customer engagements and deployments in high-stakes environments.
• Strong technical foundation , able to go deep on systems architecture, integration challenges, and hardware/software trade-offs without relying on engineering to translate for you.
• Experience building and presenting technical briefings to senior military and government stakeholders.
• Track record of managing complex, multi-team schedules with interdependent milestones and hard deadlines.
• Proficiency in Jira for program scheduling, sprint management, and milestone tracking , you treat the tool as a real-time reflection of program health, not an administrative chore.
• Exceptional organizational skills , you are the person who tracks every action item, every dependency, every open risk, and doesn't let things fall through.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and high-pressure situations where the plan is changing and decisions have real consequences.
• Experience with export control processes (ITAR/EAR) and international logistics.
• Familiarity with DoD acquisition processes, contract structures (FFP, T&M, CPFF), and milestone-based deliverables.
• Ability to travel internationally up to 25%-40%, including extended deployments for demonstrations.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in undersea warfare, autonomous systems, or maritime ISR programs.
• Background in systems engineering or test & evaluation.
• Experience working with Indo-Pacific partner nations.
• Experience with Confluence for documentation and product baseline management.
• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.