Deputy Program Manager

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 real-time, 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.
Anduril’s Connected Warfare Division is leading the charge to develop, integrate, and operationalize these advanced technologies. We are looking for a Deputy Program Manager to join our team within the Mission Command Business Line, overseeing multiple projects across engineering disciplines and ensuring successful delivery of complex defense systems.

As a Deputy Program Manager on the Mission Command team, you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. Your efforts will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. Above all, Mission Software Engineers are driven by a “Whatever It Takes” mindset—executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes correctly, on-time, and with high quality.

• Lead, manage, and execute technical programs, from early stage design through to technology development, system integration, testing, and deployment.
• As a member of the Mission Command team, you will be expected to provide meaningful insight into current and future customer needs. You will develop solutions, provide accurate and timely accounting of resources, and ensure crisp communication at all levels.
• Partner with the Mission Command engineering team to drive successful program execution and team velocity.
• Build trust with Anduril teammates, vendors, partners, and potential customers, and work closely with users, vendors and government stakeholders through effective communication, positive attitude, and meticulous follow-through.
• Execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from internal engineering, program office, and third party corporate partners to own successful delivery of outcomes.
• Coordinate and execute test events involving various levels of software and hardware, from full-software simulations at Anduril HQ to full hardware-in-the-loop demonstrations.
• Demonstrate high ownership on all pieces of work; become a trusted partner to both Government Partners and Anduril’s engineers.
• Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple functional teams and cross-functional initiatives. Instill an efficient project management mindset and workflow across the teams.
• Identify, resolve, escalate key cross team dependencies.
• Collaborate closely with other partner teams, such as hardware, product, and test operations as needed.
• Remove obstacles to drive clarity and progress, identify gaps in communication or schedule, manage issue escalations and provide support to teams balancing competing priorities, and drive results proactively.
• Understand technical implementation at the architectural level; ask questions that clarify priorities.
• Understand corporate functions and drive efficiency to enable an integrated and responsive Program Management Office.

• 7+ years experience as a Technical Program Manager, Senior Program Manager, or Chief of Staff.
• Ability to lead a cross-functional team in the development and execution of different contracted and programmatic efforts.
• Proven experience delivering technology to government organizations, preferably the Army or the Marine Corps
• Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and with minimal direction.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks; ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams.
• Strong experience in project management and project management technologies (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Project); practical familiarity with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and ability to apply them where best suited.
• Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Secret security clearance.
• Must be willing to travel 50%.
• Location: Aberdeen Proving Ground 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Systems Engineering, or Engineering discipline.
• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Systems Engineering, or relevant Joint Professional Military Education level II.
• 7+ years experience as a Technical Program Manager, Senior Program Manager, Technical Product Manager, Engineering Manager, or Engineer in complex defense programs.
• Customer-facing experience leading high profile and high stakes programs, including strong interpersonal skills and executive gravitas.
• A strong familiarity with autonomous systems, software, or related aerospace / defense technologies.
• Experience with Defense Acquisition Processes, including System Requirements Reviews, Preliminary / Critical Design Reviews, Production Readiness Reviews, etc.
• Experience in building programs for software deliverables from the ground up.
• Experience with open architecture concepts & interoperability standards