# Program Director

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Sydney, New South Wales
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers
**Category**: Defence & Intelligence
**Industry**: Technology

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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.

As Director, Program Management, you will lead a critical program for Anduril Australia and our Maritime division through disciplined execution, introduction into service and continuous capability development.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead and execute a large, complex, high-profile maritime program, owning delivery against contracted cost, schedule, scope and performance commitments.

- Own the program’s baselines, Integrated Master Schedule and resource plan (headcount, budget and facilities).

- Lead introduction into service, plan and coordinate delivery, acceptance, operational test and evaluation, and transition to the operating and support organisations.

- Work with the engineering, logistics and support teams to ensure the Fundamental Inputs to Capability are in place for service entry.

- Drive continuous capability development, manage a regular cadence of hardware and software capability increments.

- Capture operator and customer feedback and, with product and engineering leads, turn it into a prioritised capability roadmap.

- Build and manage relationships across a complex stakeholder landscape, including Navy capability and fleet stakeholders, Defence acquisition and sustainment organisations.

- Develop and maintain stakeholder engagement and communication plans.

- Manage delivery against Commonwealth contracts (including ASDEFCON-based contracts).

- Ensure crisp communication and reporting at all levels.

- Lead, mentor and grow a team of Program and Technical Program Managers.

- Partner with the Chief Engineer and engineering leaders to drive execution and team velocity.

- Identify, resolve and escalate key cross-team dependencies.

- Ensure the program meets its Defence security (DISP), export control (Australian and ITAR/EAR) and Australian Industry Capability obligations.

**Core Requirements**

- Minimum of 10+ years’ experience in program and project management, including at least 5 years in senior roles.

- Background in Navy or military programs, with experience across maritime platforms, systems or capability.

- Significant experience delivering complex programs with the Australian Government.

- Demonstrated experience introducing capability into service.

- Exceptional stakeholder management, with a proven ability to build trust with and influence senior Navy, Defence and Government stakeholders.

- Proven track record of managing cost, schedule and risk on large, technically complex programs.

- Demonstrated experience leading and developing teams of program and project managers.

- Solid technical aptitude and an understanding of systems engineering, hardware and software integration.

- Practical familiarity with both Agile and Waterfall (phase-gated) methodologies.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong interpersonal skills and executive presence.

- An aptitude and appetite to thrive in an organisation with nascent structure, a high-ownership culture and a “whatever it takes” environment.

- Based in Sydney and willing to travel domestically and internationally (including to the US), approximately 25% of the time.

- Australian citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain an NV1 security clearance.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Current NV2 security clearance.

- Experience with autonomous systems, robotics or other advanced and emerging maritime capability.

- Experience with in-service support and sustainment.

- Experience running programs with continuous or spiral capability development.

- Experience with Defence gate reviews, independent assurance reviews and capability acceptance processes.

- Strong analytical and quantitative skills.

- Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, MS Project or Primavera P6.

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science or a related discipline.

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## Skills

### Required
- program management
- project management
- defence
- maritime
- engineering
- Agile
- Waterfall
- stakeholder management
- communication
- leadership

### Nice to have
- autonomous systems
- robotics
- in-service support
- sustainment
- Defence gate reviews
- Jira
- Confluence
- MS Project
- Primavera P6

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