Anduril Industries

Technical Program Manager, Maritime

Anduril Industries • $166K — $220K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of technical program management experience in defense, maritime, or aerospace
  • Demonstrated ability to manage international customer engagements and deployments
  • Strong technical knowledge in systems architecture and hardware/software trade-offs
  • Experience presenting technical briefings to senior military and government stakeholders
  • Proficient in Jira for program scheduling and milestone tracking
  • Exceptional organizational skills for managing complex schedules and dependencies
  • Comfortable operating in high-pressure, ambiguous situations

Responsibilities

  • Own planning and execution of international system deployments for undersea domain awareness
  • Build and maintain program schedules in Jira, ensuring visibility of milestones and critical paths
  • Develop milestone trackers, risk registers, and action item burndowns across multiple workstreams
  • Drive technical alignment among cross-functional teams for deployment-ready configurations
  • Prepare and deliver program status updates to customers and stakeholders
  • Coordinate logistics for international hardware shipments and export compliance
  • Identify and manage risks across engineering, supply chain, and operations

Benefits

  • Top-tier benefits package available at little to no cost to employees
  • Comprehensive support for health and recovery
  • Investment in employee development and well-being
  • Opportunity for equity grants as part of compensation
  • Focus on fostering a productive work environment
Full Job Description
About the Role

Anduril's Maritime team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Maritime Fleet in challenging operational environments worldwide. We are seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead international deployment execution for a maritime undersea domain awareness program. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, program management, and customer delivery - you will own the end-to-end execution of international demonstrations and system deployments, from planning through on-site execution. You will be the connective tissue between product teams, engineering, operations, business development, and international customers. This is not a role where you manage from a distance - you will be in the details, in the room with the customer, and accountable for delivery.

What You'll Do
  • Own planning, scheduling, and execution of international system deployments and demonstrations for undersea domain awareness capabilities
  • Build and maintain program schedules in Jira, ensuring milestones, dependencies, and critical path items are current and visible to all stakeholders
  • Develop and maintain milestone trackers, risk registers, and action item burndowns across multiple concurrent workstreams
  • Drive technical alignment across hardware, software, and systems engineering teams to ensure deployment-ready configurations meet customer requirements
  • Prepare and deliver technical briefings and program status reviews to international customers, senior leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders
  • Coordinate logistics for international hardware shipments including export compliance, temporary import/permanent export documentation, and customs coordination
  • Identify and manage risks and dependencies across engineering, supply chain, compliance, and operations - escalate early and with proposed mitigations
  • Translate customer requirements into actionable engineering tasking and ensure product teams understand the operational context behind what they're building
  • Keep Jira updated as the single source of truth for schedule status - ensure sprint planning, epic tracking, and program milestones reflect reality, not aspirations
  • Drive alignment across stakeholders who don't always agree - get decisions made, documented, and executed
  • Support contract amendment processes, milestone payment tracking, and deliverable acceptance with the customer
  • Document product baselines, configuration states, and deployment readiness criteria in Confluence
  • Operate as the single point of accountability for deployment readiness - if something isn't tracking, you own the recovery plan

You Should Have
  • 5+ years of technical program management experience, preferably in defense, maritime, or aerospace
  • Demonstrated ability to manage international customer engagements and deployments in high-stakes environments
  • Strong technical foundation - able to go deep on systems architecture, integration challenges, and hardware/software trade-offs without relying on engineering to translate for you
  • Experience building and presenting technical briefings to senior military and government stakeholders
  • Track record of managing complex, multi-team schedules with interdependent milestones and hard deadlines
  • Proficiency in Jira for program scheduling, sprint management, and milestone tracking - you treat the tool as a real-time reflection of program health, not an administrative chore
  • Exceptional organizational skills - you are the person who tracks every action item, every dependency, every open risk, and doesn't let things fall through
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and high-pressure situations where the plan is changing and decisions have real consequences
  • Experience with export control processes (ITAR/EAR) and international logistics
  • Familiarity with DoD acquisition processes, contract structures (FFP, T&M, CPFF), and milestone-based deliverables
  • Ability to travel internationally up to 25%, including extended deployments for demonstrations

Nice to Have
  • Experience in undersea warfare, autonomous systems, or maritime ISR programs
  • Background in systems engineering or test & evaluation
  • Active Secret clearance or ability to obtain one
  • Experience working with Indo-Pacific partner nations
  • Experience with Confluence for documentation and product baseline management

You Are
  • The person who walks into a room and knows the status of every open item without checking their notes
  • Comfortable telling a room of senior leaders that something is off track and presenting the recovery plan in the same breath
  • Energized by complexity, not overwhelmed by it
  • Someone who builds trust with customers through competence and follow-through, not slides and promises
  • Direct, organized, and allergic to ambiguity that hasn't been resolved


US Salary Range

$166,000-$220,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.

About Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that develops advanced systems for the military. The company was founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey, Trae Stephens, and Matt Grimm, and has since grown to become a major player in the defense industry. Anduril's products include autonomous drones, surveillance systems, and other advanced technologies that are designed to enhance military capabilities. The company has received significant funding from investors and has partnerships with several major defense contractors. Anduril is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
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200 employees
Industry
Founded
2017

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