The Deployment Lead, Maritime will be the system leader responsible for the development, delivery, and sustainment of maritime capabilities within Anduril's Air Defense team. This role involves qualifying products through customer acceptance tests, managing product delivery and sustainment at scale, building relationships with stakeholders, and developing deep mission expertise to inform product development. The lead will own the scaling and sustainment of Air Defense products, working across product, engineering, and logistics teams.

Responsibilities

Qualify product(s): Achieve success in customer-sponsored acceptance tests of the products within your portfolio. You are able to distill and analyze test objectives to determine requisite developmental efforts proceeding test events to ensure successful outcomes are achieved. You will lead the team of Andurillians through the operational execution of product evaluations - managing resources, priorities, and test scope.
**Product delivery:**Build systems to effectively scale novel capabilities beyond their governmental qualifications and into the hands of warfighters. You will manage the top-funnel demand of the product, work with manufacturing and supply chain to ensure material readiness, and embed with account teams to coordinate delivery of procured products.
Product sustainment at scale: You will author the processes in which Anduril sustains delivered products, through their entire lifecycle, to include customer outreach, reactive/pro-active servicing, product revisioning, and return material authorization (RMA).
Relationship management: Build trust with Anduril teammates, vendors, partners, potential customers and users through effective communication, positive attitude, and follow-through. You are able to brief customers on emerging capabilities and represent Anduril to senior leaders. Anduril is a lean, agile, engineering-first organization. You must be able to develop relationships across the company to operate effectively. You must effectively communicate risks and expectations to a diverse group of stakeholders. Your ability to effectively discuss the unique challenges of maritime air defense for non-familiar teammates and stakeholder will is crucial to success.
Mission expertise: You will develop a deep understanding of mission requirements for emerging capabilities, including the nature of threats, operational and resource constraints, rules of engagement, and how they intersect with the end user’s experience. You must proactively communicate this understanding to Anduril’s functional engineering teams to enhance new technologies to support evolving mission needs and product no fit. You will deeply understand product development priorities and business development opportunities, and frame trade-offs to engineering and sales decision makers.

Requirements

Proven experience delivering technology to government organizations or large commercial institutions
Proven experience leading a technical team of peers to field hardware and software products to real operating environments at various scales
Proven experience and aptitude in taking a product from 1 to 100 and beyond
5+ years work experience in a technology company or as a part of a technical implementation team focused on developing integrated hardware and software products
Deep interest in national security issues and defense technologies, with a commitment to lifelong learning
Ability to support underway operations onboard vessels if required
Must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance
Willing to travel up to 50% of the time

Nice to have

Ability to obtain a TS Clearance, with SCI eligibility strongly preferred
Experience in operating the maritime sector, spanning from coastal to deep water
Experience in maritime / dynamic air defense operations

Benefits

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