Deployment Lead, East

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

We build 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 Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS) team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters.

Responsibilities

As a Mission Operations Deployment Lead, you are responsible for delivering and sustaining a CUAS capability that meets our customers’ mission requirements and exceeds their expectations.

• Project planning and execution: plan and execute complex hardware movements, site installations
• Site sustainment operations: Tier 1 troubleshooting and user engagements, issue resolution and escalation, reporting, working with data
• Communicate plans and timelines to the customer and to internal counterparties
• Drive cross-functional/integrated program team: lead an integrated team to deliver capability, create focus, drive execution
• Manage customer and stakeholder expectation and relationships
• Support large DoW Program of requirements and submit accurate and timely information on deadline

Qualities

• Mission execution: Do whatever it takes to achieve mission success for Anduril and our customers.
• Relationship management: Build trust with customers, users, and Anduril teammates through effective communication, positive attitude, and follow-through.
• Mission expertise: Develop a deep knowledge of your customer’s mission requirements, including the nature of the threats they face, regulatory challenges, resource constraints, rules of engagement, and more.
• Product expertise: Develop a thorough understanding of the capabilities and limitations of Anduril’s CUAS Family of Systems.

Required qualifications

• Advanced degree or 4+ years experience in a technical field
• Deep interest in national security issues and defense technologies, with a commitment to lifelong learning
• Proven customer-facing program management and/or systems engineering experience, preferably in the defense, national security, or aerospace domain
• Proven experience leading a team of peers to field hardware or software products to real operating environments
• Can travel up to 50% of the year