Associate Director, Army Mission Operations

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

The Connected Warfare division builds systems to support global command and control missions. We create joint, time-sensitive, multi-domain, ubiquitous, connected mesh ecosystems.

This strategic role owns senior leader engagement with Corps and Division Commanders for the Army’s Next Generation Command & Control (NGC2) program. You will drive the rapid fielding of NGC2 by influencing key stakeholders to ensure organizational readiness and proactively pressure the acquisition community.

Responsibilities:

• Drive NGC2 engagement from the top-down
• Prepare the battlespace for Army formations receiving NGC2. Validate or redefine Anduril delivery assumptions and ensure customer org structures support NGC2 as a priority
• Cultivate senior leader advocacy and institutional adoption of NGC2 across Army formations
• Create and operationalize a repeatable technology adoption model across Army formations. Evangelize lessons learned from previous customers with new customers early
• Develop mid-term (6-month) NGC2 product roadmaps based on operational leadership priorities. Identify priority applications, features, and integrations and populate product roadmap ahead of fielding or equipping
• Identify efficiencies and opportunities in NGC2 product integration across software, transport, and compute layers based on identified Warfighting needs
• Identify and facilitate first-party Anduril product adoption within Army formations. Cultivate customer champions for NGC2
• Step in as senior Anduril leader for escalation or de-escalation when executive leadership engagement is required

Requirements:

• 12-15+ years of experience working with or within the DoD and Intelligence Community
• Bachelor's degree or higher
• A bias towards rapid delivery and iteration, extreme ownership, and strong opinions with low ego
• Experience translating and decomposing highly technical concepts into operational requirements and performance specifications
• Strong aptitude for problem-solving in unstructured situations at the interface of hardware, software, and networking
• Strong executive communication and relationship-building skills across government and industry stakeholders
• Ability to work independently in austere environments with minimal direct supervision
• Must be willing to travel 50%+
• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret clearance