Deployment Lead, PACOM
This role is responsible for delivering and sustaining a CUAS capability, managing complex deployments, and serving as the primary customer representative for Anduril Industries.
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.
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. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of UAS threats. Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the CUAS team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril CUAS Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide.
Core Responsibilities
Mission execution: Do whatever it takes to achieve mission success for Anduril and our customers. Meticulous, resourceful, and detailed-oriented, you will manage every step of the deployment process, from site survey to testing, pack-out, installation, training, and sustainment. No job is too small. You consistently demonstrate extraordinary judgement, grit, and composure in high pressure situations. You anticipate every contingency, build lightweight processes, soberly assess and mitigate risk, and deliberately learn from your experiences to continuously improve.
Relationship management: Build trust with customers, users, and Anduril teammates through effective communication, positive attitude, and follow-through. With careful listening and observation, you internalize our customers' priorities and requirements. You develop plans that build their confidence in, and understanding of, our capability. With empathy and responsiveness, you quickly build rapport with users and provide high-quality training and support. Internally, you develop relationships across the organization to operate effectively. Whether in writing or in speech, you communicate honestly and directly. You are committed to giving and receiving feedback well. Your partners always know what you expect from them, and know exactly what to expect from you.
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. You will become a CUAS subject matter expert and the voice of the customer, capable of effectively communicating requirements and CONOPS to Anduril engineers so they can continue to enhance our CUAS capability to meet evolving mission needs. You are deeply motivated to shape the future of air defense.
Product expertise: Develop a thorough understanding of the capabilities and limitations of Anduril's CUAS Family of Systems. You are innately curious about the technology underpinning our capability, and are not satisfied with a superficial understanding of how and why it works. You are constantly educating yourself about the strengths and weaknesses of different sensor modalities, the challenges of sensor fusion, power and networking requirements, and more. You will become an opinionated power user who can reliably forecast how our capability will perform against a broad range of threat profiles, environmental conditions, and mission constraints.
Operational Duties
- 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
General Skills
- Project management
- Cross-functional leadership
- Problem-solving
- Risk identification and mitigation
Requirements
Required Qualifications
- Advanced degree or 4+ years experience in a technical field
- 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
- 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, then communicating subjective material into the objective for the benefit of the team.
- Is a creative problem solver that is energetic and relentlessly curious.
Preferred Qualifications
- Deep interest in national security issues and defense technologies, with a commitment to lifelong learning
- Can travel up to 50% of the year
Benefits
Anduril offers a comprehensive, competitive benefits package for full-time employees, ensuring support in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
Additional Info
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Compensation
Salary Range: $112,000 - $149,000 USD (Yearly)
Employment Details
Employment Type: Full-Time
SOFA Status: Applicable
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