Senior Program Manager, Special Projects

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 JOB This operations role on the Real Estate & Facilities team at Anduril has two primary responsibilities: Managing complex programs that span multiple domains. This role does not require you to be a subject matter expert on any one domain, but a keen attention to detail, strong bias for action, and ability to navigate complex politics & uncharted territory is key. Special projects. We are frequently pulled into high priority problems that must be solved, but do not fall neatly into the purview of an existing person’s job description. Our team is one of the first to get tapped when a messy problem needs solving. Much of the time, both of these go hand-in-hand. As a Sr. Program Manager, you will be critical to supporting both of these responsibilities. While the Real Estate & Facilities team will be your team, you will often be working cross-functionally with leaders and teams throughout the organization to solve messy problems, set up new processes, capture data, action upon it, and enable others to do the same. WHAT YOU'LL DO Own operational projects end-to-end, from Definition, Solution, to Implementation. You will be handed ambiguous, messy problems with little prescription on how to solve them. If this does not excite you, this is not the role for you. Work on operational problems involving the intersection of hardware and software systems. From large-scale change management across facilities moves , to integrating new facilities from acquisitions, to capturing data on quality-issues across our broad portfolio of facilities. Anduril is hardware business, and facilities enable our mission at the most basic level. We need our systems, tools, and, processes to be up to the task. Work deeply within data and systems, becoming intimately familiar with how our business systems (ERP, MRP, HRIS, etc.) function, and how to leverage data from them to create insights and analytics (leveraging tools like Excel, SQL, Tableau), equipping functional teams with these insights and tools to measure and improve their processes. Execute scrappy analyses on short-timelines to get answers quickly, while also owning more scalable solutions that will make Anduril successful in the long term. Project manage across many stakeholders. If you don’t like being the person leading meetings with large groups of people or managing large Slack channels to wrangle stakeholders towards a solution, this may not be the role for you. Work across functions and learn Anduril’s business top-to-bottom. You will interact with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, Engineering, HR, Recruiting, Growth, and more. This role requires cross-functional stretching across Anduril. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS You have 5+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, internal operations, or business analyst role. You lean into acknowledging your weaknesses and take the idea of feedback and growth seriously. 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 going and executing on them. You are self-driven and relentlessly proactive. You don’t need someone to tell you to “move”. You just move. We’d rather have to tell you to slow down than to s