Business Operations, Air Dominance and Strike

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Air Dominance & Strike : Air Dominance & Strike Engineering : Business Operations

This role is in Business Operations for the Air Dominance and Strike Division at Anduril, a defense technology company. The division develops next-generation collaborative combat aircraft and autonomous weapons powered by an AI operating system. The Business Operations role supports the division's growth through cross-functional collaboration, planning, financial monitoring, and special projects. It requires experience in operating roles at high-growth tech companies, finance, or consulting, and eligibility for a US Top Secret clearance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work cross functionally to enable the business to run efficiently, ensuring business development, engineering, and production teams have what they need when they need it to execute
  2. Support our corporate planning cycle by helping to build out and monitor performance against goals, financial plans, and headcount plans so we can hit our aggressive growth targets
  3. 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
  4. Balance resource and execution risk against our massive growth plans, regularly monitoring financials to help guide us toward our profitability targets
  5. Support 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

Skills

Required

  • 2-8 years of varied experience in an operating role at a high-growth technology company, starting a venture, or in finance or consulting
  • Eligible to hold a US Top Secret clearance

Nice to have

  • love solving complex, ambiguous, cross-functional problems in a people-centric way
  • high ownership and low ego
  • strong outcome orientation and high humility
  • highly detail oriented and data-driven
  • discerning and an incredibly fast learner
  • tactical and don’t only sit at a 30,000 foot level

What the JD emphasized

  • US Top Secret clearance