Director of Operations, Air Dominance & Strike

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

Director of Operations for an Air Dominance & Strike division at a defense technology company. The role focuses on scaling business operations, infrastructure, and strategic planning to support hypergrowth and profitability targets for advanced effects and autonomous weapons systems. It involves managing business development, engineering, and production, translating growth signals into operational demands, and evolving organizational structure and standards.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own all aspects of Advanced Effects business operations and infrastructure, ensuring business development, engineering, and production teams have what they need when they need it to execute
  2. Serve as the Advanced Effects General Manager’s chief strategist to balance resource and execution risk against our massive growth plans, regularly monitoring financials to help guide us toward our profitability 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. Own 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
  5. Collaborate closely with division leadership to evolve the organizational structure and define and implement strong hiring, onboarding, and execution standards for key functions so we maintain a culture of “doing things differently”

Skills

Required

  • Operations leadership
  • Strategic planning
  • Financial monitoring
  • Business development
  • Engineering management
  • Production management
  • Staffing
  • Real estate management
  • Test range management
  • Classified infrastructure management
  • Organizational structure evolution
  • Hiring standards
  • Onboarding standards
  • Execution standards
  • M&A experience
  • Clearance eligibility

Nice to have

  • People-centric problem solving
  • High ownership
  • Low ego
  • Outcome orientation
  • High humility
  • Detail oriented
  • Data-driven
  • Discerning
  • Fast learner
  • Tactical execution

What the JD emphasized

  • US Top Secret clearance
  • scale the through hypergrowth
  • massive growth plans