Business Operations, International

About the role

International Business Operations are forward-deployed operators who travel frequently and/or relocate flexibly to solve high-priority ambiguous problems across the globe, including standing up new facilities, localizing production, and supporting acquisition diligence or acquisition implementation.

Responsibilities

• Own international operational projects end-to-end, from definition, to solution-design, to implementation, to exit with clean transition of ownership.
• Forward-deploy to new geographies to stand up facilities, establish local presence, and build relationships with customers, partners, contractors, government stakeholders, and prospective hires.
• Partner closely with Strategic Real Estate, Global Defense, and Corporate Development on site selection, lease execution, facility buildout, tenders and proposals, localization and industrial participation planning, M&A diligence and post-acquisition operational integration.
• Work on strategic problems, providing structure to ambiguity and shepherding cross-functional groups of stakeholders, often spread across 12+ time zones, towards informed decisions.
• Project manage across large, distributed groups of stakeholders, including C-suite executives, leading meetings across time zones, creating and managing large Slack channels, and wrangling a 15-person group spanning HQ, London, and Tokyo toward a solution.

Requirements

• A valid passport, the ability to obtain visas to a wide range of countries, and comfort operating for extended periods away from home are all required.
• Strong agency and judgement to operate independently overseas. Mature enough to make calls in the moment with imperfect information, and mature enough not to go rogue.
• You know when to decide and when to escalate.
• Builds trust and relationships across cultures, functions, and seniority levels.
• Comfortable constantly moving between big-picture strategy, fine details, and execution sometimes all in the same day, across a 14-hour economy flight.
• You can shape Anduril’s approach to a country and also negotiate lease terms or source a local supplier.
• A strong communicator across a huge dynamic range: working-level engineers, finance partners, foreign counterparts, and executives, usually across 12+ hour time zones.
• Self-aware and coachable. You seek feedback and self-correct, especially important when you’re operating far from the team and need to catch your own blind spots.
• High ownership with the horsepower to juggle multiple (2-3+) international projects in parallel, at a rapid pace, reporting out progress regularly without dropping balls.

Qualifications

• Willing and able to travel 75%+ internationally and/or relocate flexibly on short notice.
• 6+ years of working experience with a minimum of 3+ years in a consulting, operations, finance, or product/program management role.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.