Head of Operations, EW

The Head of Operations owns the execution machinery of the EW business line. You lead the teams that plan deliver deploy and sustain every EW product Anduril puts in the field. Your organization spans four functions Technical Program Management Program Management Mission & Deployment Operations and Sustainment Operations and your job is to make them operate as a cohesive system that delivers capability to the warfighter on time on budget and at quality.

This is not a coordination role. You own the outcome. When programs deliver its because your organization planned well executed with discipline and solved problems before they became crises. When programs struggle youre the person accountable for understanding why and fixing it. You set the standards build the teams and drive the culture of execution across the entire EW portfolio.

Technical Program Management

• Oversight of TPMs managing complex development efforts across the EW portfolio (Pulsar Polaris Neutron and emerging platforms)
• Technical schedule management ensuring internal and external development projects and programs are planned with realistic timelines informed by engineering complexity not just calendar dates
• Risk management as a discipline not just tracking risks but actively driving mitigation and making risk-informed decisions at the portfolio level
• Integration of technical and programmatic perspectives ensuring schedules budgets and plans reflect engineering reality
• Establishing TPM standards how programs are run what artifacts are maintained what good looks like across the team

Program Management

• Oversight of PMs managing cost schedule and contractual performance across active programs
• Customer-facing program execution milestone delivery CDRLs reviews and status reporting that meets or exceeds customer expectations
• Proposal and capture support cost volumes BOEs schedules and management approaches for new business
• Contract management understanding terms managing scope and ensuring deliverables align with contractual obligations
• Portfolio-level visibility providing leadership with accurate honest actionable status across all programs simultaneously
• Tight collaboration with growth and account management to expand program scope and transition to scaled delivery

Mission & Deployment Operations

• Alignment of demand and supply planning including prioritization and allocation to achieve program requirements.
• Planning logistics and execution of EW system deployments to operational environments
• Coordination across engineering production customers and field teams to ensure deployments succeed on schedule
• Deployment readiness reviews ensuring systems support equipment documentation and personnel are prepared before committing to a deployment date
• Continuous improvement of deployment processes reducing cycle time increasing predictability and capturing lessons learned
• Developing tight feedback loops between field performance program execution and product development
• Scaling deployment operations as the portfolio grows from dozens of fielded systems to hundreds

Operations & Sustainment (O&S)

• Sustainment planning and execution for fielded EW systems spare parts repairs upgrades and technical support
• O&S program management for large multi-year sustainment contracts
• Field support coordination ensuring deployed systems remain operational and customers have responsive support
• Sustainment metrics availability mean time to repair supply chain health and customer satisfaction
• Transition planning designing sustainment approaches during development so systems are supportable from day one not as an afterthought

Leadership & Organization

• Building scaling and leading an organization of 20-50 program managers TPMs deployment operators and sustainment professionals
• Defining organizational structure as the portfolio grows how to organize teams across functions programs and customers for maximum effectiveness
• Contribute to overall BL product and growth strategies
• Hiring and developing talent building a bench of program leaders who can run increasingly complex programs independently
• Setting culture and standards establishing what execution excellence means across all four functions and holding the team to it
• Resource allocation assigning the right people to the right programs at the right time and making hard tradeoff calls when demand exceeds capacity
• Career development creating growth paths that retain top performers and develop the next generation of program leadership
• Cross-functional partnership working with engineering production supply chain finance growth and legal as peers to drive business outcomes
• Executive communication providing the GM and senior leadership with portfolio-level insight that enables strategic decisions

• 15 years in program management technical program management or related operational leadership at least 5 leading a multi-team organization
• Proven track record delivering complex defense or aerospace hardware/software programs through full lifecycle (development production fielding sustainment)
• Experience building and scaling PM organizations hiring structuring and developing teams of program professionals
• Deep understanding of program management fundamentals and the judgment to know when to apply rigor and when to move fast
• Experience managing a portfolio not just one program but multiple concurrent efforts with competing resource demands and interdependencies
• Strong customer relationships and experience managing government program offices contracting officers and operational end users
• Financial acumen P&L awareness EAC management and ability to make resource decisions with budget implications
• Comfort operating at both strategic and tactical levels setting three-year plans and unblocking this weeks shipment
• Executive presence ability to represent the EW business line to customers senior leadership and external stakeholders with credibility and authority
• Bias toward action accountability and transparency over process consensus and opacity

• Background in EW radar or electronic systems programs specifically
• Experience with rapid development and fielding prototyping through production in compressed timelines
• Familiarity with DoD acquisition pathways traditional (FAR/DFARS) middle tier and non-traditional (OTA DIU)
• Experience standing up deployment or sustainment operations from scratch
• Understanding of MOSA DevSecOps and agile hardware development approaches
• Experience with EVMS earned value reporting and government compliance for large programs
• PMP certification or equivalent (valued for the knowledge not the credential)

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:

At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.

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