Deployment Lead, Maritime

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a
time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense team provides
mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification,
deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers
to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of UAS threats. Working across product,
engineering, business development, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense
team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems in
challenging operational environments worldwide.

The Mission Operations team is responsible for managing the delivery, sustainment, and growth of the capabilities we provide to our customers. Working across product, engineering, and logistics teams, our Mission Operations Deployment Leads own the scaling and sustainment of Air Defense products within Anduril’s portfolio. 

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for a Deployment Lead to join our Air Defense team to be the system leader responsible for the development, delivery, and sustainment of our maritime capabilities. 

You will be the product subject matter expert for our mission partners to help them develop and improve air defense capabilities, concepts of employment, hardware and software configuration management, and developmental system testing. You fulfill this responsibility through rigorous operational execution, detail orientation, proactive communication, deep mission understanding, and hard-won product expertise. If you are passionate about delivering and educating others on ground-breaking technology, contributing to the national security mission, interacting with a wide range of experts, and providing user feedback and lessons learned to continuously improve our product and our team, then Anduril wants to hear from you. 

We are a fast-growing company at the early stages of our growth and you will be expected to immediately develop and own material and projects during your time on the team which will have a significant impact on the Program’s trajectory. Anduril fosters a diverse, collaborative, culture with plenty of opportunities for ownership and professional growth.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Qualify product(s): Achieve success in customer-sponsored acceptance tests of the products within your portfolio. You are able to distill and analyze test objectives to determine requisite developmental efforts proceeding test events to ensure successful outcomes are achieved. You will lead the team of Andurillians through the operational execution of product evaluations - managing resources, priorities, and test scope.
• Product delivery:Build systems to effectively scale novel capabilities beyond their governmental qualifications and into the hands of warfighters. You will manage the top-funnel demand of the product, work with manufacturing and supply chain to ensure material readiness, and embed with account teams to coordinate delivery of procured products.
• Product sustainment at scale: You will author the processes in which Anduril sustains delivered products, through their entire lifecycle, to include customer outreach, reactive/pro-active servicing, product revisioning, and return material authorization (RMA).
• Relationship management: Build trust with Anduril teammates, vendors, partners, potential customers and users through effective communication, positive attitude, and follow-through. You are able to brief customers on emerging capabilities and represent Anduril to senior leaders. Anduril is a lean, agile, engineering-first organization. You must be able to develop relationships across the company to operate effectively. You must effectively communicate risks and expectations to a diverse group of stakeholders. Your ability to effectively discuss the unique challenges of maritime air defense for non-familiar teammates and stakeholder will is crucial to success.
• Mission expertise: You will develop a deep understanding of mission requirements for emerging capabilities, including the nature of threats, operational and resource constraints, rules of engagement, and how they intersect with the end user’s experience. You must proactively communicate this understanding to Anduril’s functional engineering teams to enhance new technologies to support evolving mission needs and product no fit. You will deeply understand product development priorities and business development opportunities, and frame trade-offs to engineering and sales decision makers. 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Proven experience delivering technology to government organizations or large commercial institutions
• Proven experience leading a technical team of peers to field hardware and software products to real operating environments at various scales
• Proven experience and aptitude in taking a product from 1 to 100 and beyond
• 5+ years work experience in a technology company or as a part of a technical implementation team focused on developing integrated hardware and software products
• Deep interest in national security issues and defense technologies, with a commitment to lifelong learning
• Ability to support underway operations onboard vessels if required
• Must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance
• Willing to travel up to 50% of the time

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Ability to obtain a TS Clearance, with SCI eligibility strongly preferred
• Experience in operating the maritime sector, spanning from coastal to deep water
• Experience in maritime / dynamic air defense operations