Program Manager, Strategic Ventures

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Corporate Technology : Strategic Operations and Transformation : Strategic Ventures

Program Manager for Strategic Ventures at Anduril, a defense technology company. This role focuses on leading cross-functional teams to improve supply chain, manufacturing, and deployment processes. The position involves project management, identifying operational pain points, designing and implementing scalable processes, and working with various departments including Enterprise Solutions, Finance, and Product. The role requires strong project management skills, data analysis, business requirement definition, and collaborative experience. Experience in fast-paced tech, manufacturing, finance, or defense environments is preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead cross-functional efforts, building project roadmaps, getting alignment from different parties, and working through roadblocks as they come up, owning the end-to-end implementation of a given Venture.
  2. Work closely with the Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Mission Operations, Finance, Product, and Deployments teams to identify problems, conceive solutions, and implement processes to improve our ability to buy, make, and deploy hardware quickly and correctly.
  3. Work closely with the Enterprise Solutions teams to scope requirements and deliver solutions to help aid in solving core scale problems.
  4. Pinch hit where necessary, filling in critical gaps to ensure the business can run smoothly and your Ventures are successful. This is a critical aspect of this role, we do what needs to be done regardless of experience.

Skills

Required

  • Effective end to end project management experience spanning concept, planning, implementation, and follow through
  • Ability to identify operational pain points, then design and implement new, scalable processes to resolve them.
  • Proficiency in using both qualitative and quantitative data to perform analysis and support operational decisions.
  • Experience defining and documenting business requirements for internal systems or software workflows.
  • Experience working collaboratively across multiple departments (e.g., business and technical teams) to achieve shared goals.
  • Demonstrated ability to learn new concepts, processes, and skills quickly to meet project demands.
  • A track record of high ownership and personal accountability for project outcomes.
  • U.S. Person Status is required as this position needs to access controlled data.

Nice to have

  • Experience partnering with Finance/Accounting and Operational Stakeholders, ideally in a fast paced, high-growth technology, manufacturing, finance, or defense environment.
  • Ability to influence the design and functionality of internal business systems based on user needs
  • A track record of proactively identifying future cross-functional issues or needs and proposing solutions.
  • Prior ownership of change management process for transitioning new processes or systems to business users.

What the JD emphasized

  • U.S. Person Status is required as this position needs to access controlled data.
  • This is a critical aspect of this role, we do what needs to be done regardless of experience.