Senior Program Manager, Japan

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Tokyo, Japan · Connected Warfare : Mission Command Engineering : Mission Operations

Program Manager for a defense technology company focused on delivering AI-powered military capabilities. The role involves customer interface, project management, contract delivery, and user feedback loops for integrated hardware-software products. Requires technical aptitude, program management experience, and understanding of the defense sector, with fluency in Japanese and English.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as the local customer interface to ensure Anduril’s Connected Warfare capabilities are well represented and aligned to Japan’s Ministry of Defense challenges and opportunities, working in partnership with Anduril’s in-region Growth team
  2. Provide Project Management and Contract Lead roles working directly with Japan Ministry of Defense customers and partners to develop and deploy Anduril C2 integrated hardware-software products to meet customer and operational needs
  3. Own the delivery of contract deliverables to include developing and implementing measures of performance and effectiveness, writing technical reports, and creating user engagement roadmaps
  4. Responsible for monitoring Anduril C2 product connectivity, function, and integration with customers
  5. Design and implement user feedback loops to gather, triage, and prioritize requirements, feedback, and issues found through the employment of Anduril Connected Warfare products during customer training, exercises, and normal use

Skills

Required

  • Proven customer-facing technical program management experience, preferably in the defense, national security, or aerospace domains.
  • Ability to create and maintain professional relationships with senior level Japanese customers and partners.
  • Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks
  • Ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams.
  • Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders, across a wide range of technical comfort
  • Experience in translating and decomposing highly technical concepts into operational requirements and performance specifications
  • Authorization to work and reside in Japan
  • Fluent in Japanese and English. Fluency in Japanese culture, customs and language
  • Ability to travel to meet with customers and support activities with the willingness to travel 50%

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with doctrinal, functional, and technical command and control concepts, principles, and processes
  • Experience with defence ICT systems (secret system preferred), tactical data links, and defence C4 systems strongly preferred
  • Technical expertise and demonstrated performance in one or more of the following areas: networking, cloud technologies, and/or application development

What the JD emphasized

  • Fluent in Japanese and English. Fluency in Japanese culture, customs and language