Product Manager, Planning

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Corporate Technology : ArsenalOS : Production & Quality Solutions

Product Manager to own and build foundational planning tooling for a defense technology company. This role involves defining and constructing the planning layer from the ground up, translating demand signals into build plans and supply chain purchases, and providing visibility into risks. The role will explore and incorporate cutting-edge technologies like optimization engines and AI-assisted scheduling to improve planning efficiency.

What you'd actually do

  1. Defining the foundational architecture of planning tooling determining what needs to be built, what can be integrated, and how planning data flows across supply chain, manufacturing, and sustainment systems
  2. Developing a long-term strategy that navigates complex product tradeoffs and integration dependencies to stand up a planning capability that can scale with Anduril's production ambitions
  3. Managing stakeholders' requirements across operations, supply chain, manufacturing, engineering, and finance - synthesizing competing needs into a prioritized backlog that sequences the work and communicate it to the business
  4. Communicating roadmap, progress, and constraints across a broad set of stakeholders and interested parties as the planning tooling matures from early-stage to production-grade
  5. Exploring and incorporating cutting-edge technologies from optimization engines, AI-assisted scheduling, and modern data infrastructure. Anything that enables Anduril to plan better and faster.

Skills

Required

  • Five to seven years in product management role or similar leading role in product development
  • Domain expertise within hardware-related industries, such as production planning, supply chain, manufacturing, or logistics
  • Strong understanding of the interplay between enterprise systems, including ERP, MRP/APS, WMS, MES, and PLM—and a point of view on where traditional systems fall short
  • Experience building foundational or platform-level products where you had to define core data models, system boundaries, and integration patterns alongside feature development
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to balance requirement

What the JD emphasized

  • foundational planning tooling
  • defining and constructing the planning layer from the ground up
  • foundational architecture
  • foundational work
  • foundational tools