Director, Business Development, Maritime (Strategy)

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. ABOUT THE TEAM Anduril Maritime delivers platforms, systems, and integrated effects in the maritime domain. Our autonomous vehicles (sub-surface and surface) are the cornerstone of these capabilities, and we continually strive to push the boundaries of the possible in terms of endurance, autonomy and mission capability. The Maritime team develops and maintains core products and payloads and adapts and applies those products to serve a wide variety of defense, IC and commercial customers in US and international markets. ABOUT THE JOB We are seeking a Director, Maritime Business Development (Strategy) to join our team to shape, capture, and grow new maritime concepts, products and future business lines. This is a zero-to-one role. You will partner with engineering, product, and division leadership to define the customer set, translate customer mission requirements into a credible product strategy, build the partnerships required to deliver the capability, and lead the captures that turn the concept into a program of record. Success in this role requires comfort operating at the intersection of strategy and emerging technology — you will need to be conversant in the technical reality of what makes these systems work, the operational reality of how customers will use them, and the programmatic reality of how the U.S. government and commercial customers acquire first-of-kind capability. The role asks for a leader who is energized by greenfield problems and is willing to roll up their sleeves and build a capability and program from scratch. If you have spent time in consulting, defense business development, commercial maritime, government program acquisitions, defense strategy, or the intersection of advanced technology and national security, and you are looking for a role where the strategy, customer relationships and the technical shaping all sit in the same seat, this is the role for you. WHAT YOU’LL DO Originate and shape business opportunities. You will own the front end of the pipeline for the Maritime Division: identifying where the next programs and markets will form, then building the engagement strategy to get there first. You will develop a deep, current view of the client base, the programmatic and technical roadmap, and a shifting competitive landscape, and translate that view into a deliberate set of pursuits. You will initiate and sustain executive-level engagements with existing and prospective customers, read buying cycles before they open, and lead the response strategy for RFIs, RFPs, RFWPs, and unsolicited proposals that position Anduril to win. Own the growth strategy. Build and execute a cohesive, data-driven strategy to shape, capture, and close emerging growth opportunities in new or existing markets that allow the Maritime Division to penetrate, expand, and deliver Anduril's best-in-class warfighting capabilities to defense and commercial customers. Stand up new programs from scratch. Lead the rapid shaping, capture, design, and prototyping of new commercial and defense products where a program or market has to be grown from scratch or from early requirements, partnering with Government Relations, Marketing, and Communications to bring it to life. Expand into adjacent demand. You will work alongsid