Division Operations Lead

About the role

Anduril Industries is seeking a Division Operations Lead based in Costa Mesa. The successful candidate will partner with Division and Anduril leadership to build out and run the staffing machine for the organization, supporting corporate planning cycles, and leading various strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Division and Anduril leadership to build out and run the staffing machine for our organization, enabling efficient in country recruiting, facility and infrastructure standup, and allocation of resources as the organization scales.
• Support our corporate planning cycle by building and managing the local business operations functions, monitoring performance against goals, financial plans, and headcount plans to hit aggressive growth targets.
• Work with Product Engineering and Test and Evaluation teams to find and close operations gaps and ensure seamless execution of program schedule.
• Serve as liaison to Anduril UK for international trade and export compliance matters.
• Regularly monitor and analyze recruiting, staffing, and financial progress against plans and provide recommendations to leadership for resource planning and reallocation.
• Work with Anduril’s Business Operations, Analytics, and Finance teams to build out infrastructure to enable the Division to monitor and optimize the demand vs supply of resourcing across our most critical programs.
• Lead various strategic initiatives and projects as directed by leadership and the Head of Division Operations, ensuring they align with the overall business strategy and objectives.
• Cook up and prepare for executive leadership meetings with partners and customers, including setting agendas, tracking action items, and ensuring follow-through.
• Develop fundamental knowledge of Anduril product solutions to support regional growth and capture activities.

Requirements

• You have 7 - 10 years of experience in consulting, operations, finance, or general business analysis.
• You have a strong background in executing business operations and driving outcomes.
• You have strong fundamentals in operational accounting and finance.
• You love solving complex, ambiguous, cross-functional problems in a people-centric way.
• You’re both high ownership and low ego, approaching everything with strong outcome orientation and high humility.
• You get energy from being a thought partner for others and it excites you to spend time translating operational problems into data problems, and to then go and execute on them.
• You’re discerning and an incredibly fast learner.
• You’re tactical and don’t only sit at a 30,000 foot level.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working at or with Aerospace & Defense companies, Robotics, Technology, or other manufacturing heavy companies directly or in an advisory capacity.
• Experience with vertical lift platforms or adjacent technologies.
• Experience working at a startup or ability to establish processes and SOPs from scratch.

Pay

US Salary Range: $146,000—$194,000 USD

Benefits

Hightly 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:

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees)
• Health, recovery, and whatever comes next

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