Senior Program Manager, Asia-Pacific

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years. ABOUT THE TEAM Air Defense is a high-octane, rapidly scaling business line that develops, integrates, and fields an expanding mix of mature and novel capabilities to detect and defeat UAS threats. As our business line continues to scale, our newest customer programs in the Asia-Pacific region require focused direction and ownership to rapidly mature in support of Air Defense’s operational, technical, and financial objectives. We move fast in Air Defense and give tremendous freedom and autonomy to our new hires to assume responsibility and exercise prudent interdisciplinary judgement; when you join our team, you’re signing up to immediately make an impact in our organization. ABOUT THE JOB We are looking for a seasoned Program Manager to lead execution of a strategic Air Defense program. In this role, you will be responsible for the all-around execution of a program fielding integrated Air Defense solutions spanning hardware and software. You will be accountable for all aspects of Program success, including cost, schedule, and performance. You will lead an integrated, cross-functional program team to deliver capability that exceeds customer expectations. Success in this role requires a systems mindset and technical understanding with rigorous execution skills. You must be able to deeply understand mission requirements, master technical concepts, identify key dependencies and trade-offs, assess and mitigate risks, align internal and external parties on priorities and expectations, orchestrate complex operations, and communicate clearly and consistently. You must be able to build lightweight process where required while maintaining outcome orientation and a bias toward action. We are looking for a high-agency, autonomous program owner who is excited by the prospect of driving Anduril’s Air Defense performance in this strategic region. You will also be the face of Anduril to many of our end-users and our customers, capable of articulating the capabilities and limitations of Anduril’s products at both an executive’s and a layman’s level. In this role, you will be responsible for managing one of our most important new customer programs. You will work alongside our engineering, product, operations, and other support teams across Anduril, as well as our customer community in-country to ensure successful deployment & sustainment of Anduril capabilities. This will require an understanding of technical product capabilities as well as the ability to work cross-functionally from across time zones to bring the best of Anduril to bear for this critical customer. WHAT YOU'LL DO Program Execution: Own overall program execution, meeting cost, schedule, and performance targets and exceeding customer expectations. Acquire an intimate understanding of program requirements and maintain open dialogue with the customer to ensure engineering efforts remain aligned to mission objectives. Orchestrate the deployment of Anduril capabilities through collaboration with a wide range of functional partners, including engineering, logistics, technical operations, training, and more. Foster a “Team of Teams” culture amongst Anduril, external customers, and third-party partners to align objectives, optimize processes, gather insight, and drive on-time…