# Program Manager, Air Defense

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Irvine, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,000-$194,000 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Defense

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## Description

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

The Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense team provides mission critical capabilities to protect the nation’s most important assets.

As the Deployment Manager, you will serve as the operational expert for Air Defense deployments,ensuring systems, personnel, training, documentation, and regulatory requirements are aligned for mission success. You will build repeatable deployment processes, manage cross-functional coordination, and serve as the connective tissue between technical teams and customers.

**Responsibilities**

- Program Execution

- Develop and maintain program execution frameworks, milestones, and reporting structures to ensure alignment across technical and operational teams

- Drive program coordination across engineering, product, growth, compliance, and supply chain

- Develop executive-level reporting, dashboards, and briefings to communicate program health and progress to leadership

- Identify program risks early and drive mitigation strategies across technical and operational stakeholders

- Ensure program execution aligns with applicable U.S. and host-nation regulatory frameworks governing CUAS operations

- Deployment Planning

- Oversee planning and coordination of CUAS deployments , from planning and logistics through on-site activation to long-term sustainment

- Develop structured deployment plans, readiness gates, and operational checklists to ensure repeatable execution

- Coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver mission-ready capabilities to customer sites

- Lead after-action reviews and capture lessons learned to continuously improve deployment velocity and quality

- Stakeholder Engagement

- Serve as senior program representative during key deployments and operational activities

- Ensure clear, proactive communication across internal stakeholders and external customers

- Drive stakeholder alignment across technical, operational, and regulatory teams to ensure program decisions are made quickly, transparently, and in support of mission success

**Requirements**

- 6+ years of experience working with government program offices, defense programs, or technical project management

- Experience with government contracts, government acquisition processes, and proposal development

- Demonstrated experience managing complex, cross-functional programs involving hardware and software systems in high-stakes or regulated environments

- Experience across the broader counter-UAS (CUAS) domain and working with military and government entities, critical infrastructure operators, or defense customers

- Strong operational rigor,ability to build structured plans, manage concurrent workstreams, and execute against tight timelines

- Proven ability to cut through ambiguity and drive cross-functional alignment without formal authority

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; comfortable briefing senior leadership and customer executives

- Willingness to travel up to 30% as program and deployment needs require

- Eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance

## Skills

### Required
- government contracts
- project management
- counter-UAS
- operational planning
- regulatory compliance
- stakeholder engagement

### Nice to have
- manufacturing
- production
- supply chain experience
- CUAS operating environment
- sensor networks
- autonomy
- ISR platforms

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