Head of Operations, Air Dominance & Strike

About the role

The Head of Operations at Anduril Industries is responsible for the full operational scope of one of our business lines, ensuring that business development, engineering, and production teams have what they need to execute. This role requires a systems thinker who can solve complex, ambiguous, cross-functional problems in a people-centric way.

Responsibilities

• Own all aspects of business line business operations and infrastructure, ensuring business development, engineering, and production teams have what they need when they need it to execute
• Serve as the business line General Manager’s chief strategist to balance resource and execution risk against our massive growth plans, regularly monitoring financials to help guide us toward our profitability targets
• Translate growth signals into demand across all operational infrastructure including staffing, real estate, test ranges, classified infrastructure, and production and collaborate with cross-functional partners across Anduril to deliver
• Own the business line’s governance structure from business reviews to annual planning and employee onboarding to all hands, developing and evolving information pathways as the organization scales
• Collaborate closely with division leadership to evolve the organizational structure and define and implement strong hiring, onboarding, and execution standards for key functions so we maintain a culture of “doing things differently”
• Execute on special projects, evolve internal processes, spearhead the stand up of new functions, and lead M&A efforts as needed

Requirements

• You’re a systems thinker who loves 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’ve built flexible operational infrastructure at a high-growth company and know when to tear down and rebuild
• You have experience with hardware production scaling through fielding, including rigorous metrics monitoring, problem identification, and resolution
• You have deep financial acumen including unit economics, manufacturing finance, and P&L management
• You’re operationally rigorous with a bias toward discipline, efficiency, and management via metrics
• You have a proven ability to evolve organizations, coach senior leaders, and make hard talent calls
• You’re have the ability to move between 30,000 ft and tactical, getting into the weeds when necessary

Qualifications

• Must be eligible to hold a US Top Secret clearance

Skills

• Systems thinking
• Complex problem-solving
• People-centric approach
• Operational infrastructure building
• Financial acumen
• High ownership and low ego
• Evolution of organizations
• Talent coaching
• Ability to move between strategy and execution

Benefits

Anduril offers highly competitive equity grants as part of full-time offers, along with top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package
• Health, recovery, and future support

Pay

$220,000—$336,000 USD

Schedule

Full-time