Business Operations Associate, Production

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Manufacturing : Manufacturing

This role is for a Business Operations Associate in the Production organization of a defense technology company. The role focuses on owning operational projects end-to-end, working with hardware and software systems, strategic problem-solving, data analysis using business systems, and project management across various functions. The company utilizes an AI-powered operating system and advanced technologies like AI, computer vision, and autonomy in its products.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. Work on operational problems involving the intersection of hardware and software systems. From inventory management systems, to asset-tracking in the field, to manufacturing systems capturing data on quality-issues on the production floor. Anduril is hardware business, and tracking hardware is messy. We need our systems, tools, and, processes to be up to the task.
  3. Work on strategic problems, providing structure to ambiguity and helping shepherd cross-functional groups of stakeholders towards decisions on strategic issues - coupling first principles thinking and the ability to rapidly and creatively conduct research (internally and externally) to fully and exhaustively detail the implications and tradeoffs of various decisions without losing sight of the simple “so what”
  4. 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, Palantir Foundry, etc.), equipping functional teams with these insights and tools to measure and improve their processes
  5. 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

Skills

Required

  • 2+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, internal operations, a business analyst role
  • Self-driven and relentlessly proactive
  • Proactively step into the gap to offer solutions
  • Bring forward solutions and ideas, and then receptively take feedback on them and iterate
  • Build clear frameworks to structure problems
  • Acknowledge weaknesses and take the idea of feedback and growth seriously
  • Translate operational problems into data problems, and to then going and executing on them
  • Respond to Slacks in the evening
  • Build clear frameworks to structure problems
  • Strong analytical aptitude
  • Intuitively think about problems in terms of numbers and data-models
  • Quickly execute analyses in Excel or other tools
  • Comfortable communicating broadly and having a lot of eyes on your work
  • Communicate to large groups and senior leadership

What the JD emphasized

  • Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.