Deployment Lead, West Coast

As a Mission Operations Deployment Lead, you will be responsible for delivering and sustaining a Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS) capability that meets customer mission requirements. You will manage the entire deployment process from site survey to installation and sustainment, build trust with customers and internal teams, and develop deep expertise in both mission and product. You will represent Anduril to customers and bring user feedback back to the company to continuously improve the product. You will lead integrated teams and drive execution to ensure mission success in challenging operational environments.

Responsibilities

• 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 counterparts
• 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

Requirements

• 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
• Applicant must have experience demonstrating an ability to lead tech enabled teams while building a culture of influence through relationships
• The applicant brings innovative solutions for strategic impact to issues challenging the organization and customer alike
• Applicant is highly effective with coordinating cross-functional teams and subject matter experts of engineers, operations, logistics, etc. to rally in the accomplishment of a unified goal
• The ideal candidate innovates and drives improvements across disciplines with a proven ability to design, develop, implement, and evaluate processes relating to project management and customer relationship building
• Applicant is adept at listening, consolidating, interpreting, and then communicating subjective material into the objective for the benefit of the team
• Is a creative problem solver that is energetic and relentlessly curious

Benefits

• The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
• At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.