Description
As our next Deployment Operations Lead on the Maritime team, you are Anduril's presence on the ground across Taiwan. You are responsible for delivering, sustaining, and growing a deployed maritime defense capability that meets our customers' mission requirements and exceeds their expectations. You fulfill this responsibility through rigorous operational execution, cultural fluency, and proactive communication across the time zone difference between the USA and Taiwan.
You feel ownership over all assets and technologies deployed to your customer, and ensure that the system of systems are deployed to where they need it most. You represent Anduril to our in-country partners, including military counterparts, local US forces, and INDOPACOM stakeholders, to build their confidence and trust through your professionalism, reliability, and commitment to excellence. You also represent our customers back to Anduril, communicating user feedback, operational lessons, and evolving requirements to continuously improve our product.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Deployment planning and execution: Orchestrate deployment events including site installations, test and evaluation exercises, demonstrations, maintenance visits, and training engagements across Taiwan.
- In-country relationship management: Serve as Anduril's primary face to our military partners and representatives. Build trust through cultural fluency, consistent follow-through, and clear communication in Taiwanese, Mandarin, and English.
- Developing mission expertise: Develop deep knowledge of the customer's mission requirements, including the maritime threat environment, regional defense posture, rules of engagement, regulatory constraints, and resource limitations.
- Developing product expertise: Develop a thorough understanding of the capabilities and limitations of Anduril's maritime family of systems.
- Communicate across time zones: Serve as the critical bridge between the in-country operation and Anduril's US-based engineering and program teams.
To succeed in this role, you will need to have:
- Fluency in Taiwanese, Mandarin, and English (speaking, reading, writing)
- 3-5+ years of defense, national security, military operations, or a related technical field
- Proven ability to operate autonomously in ambiguous, high-stakes environments with minimal supervision
- Highly organized with demonstrated project management skills and attention to detail
- Experience working directly with foreign military partners or in an international defense cooperation context
- Strong interpersonal skills with proven ability to build trust across cultures and organizations
- Experience translating technical concepts into operational requirements or vice versa
- Based in Taiwan full-time
- Ability to travel both internationally and domestically (~35-50%) required