Director, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Digital Systems

Director, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Digital Systems

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

What You'll Do :

The Business Systems team is responsible for building and improving the many business systems that enables Anduril to accomplish its mission. We call this system-of-systems "ArsenalOS". Within ArsenalOS lies a suite of digital software solutions aimed at solving the problems for our manufacturing and supply chain departments, which we call ProductionOS (ProdOS for short). As the Director of ProdOS, you will own the design, development and delivery of digital supply chain and manufacturing systems at Anduril across all product lines. You will be the leader of a cross-discipline team of product managers, software and enterprise engineers, data analysts, solution and business process architects, and other technologists responsible for delivering solutions that elevate the performance of Anduril's manufacturing and supply chain departments. To accomplish this, you will build strong cross-functional partnerships and lead through influence, especially in areas such as digital tools, process development, test engineering, supply chain, material handling, and manufacturing engineering. You will develop a detailed understanding of each team's challenges and requirements to understand what solutions can best address their needs, architect and build solutions, and drive adoption, all to ultimately provide operational leverage to your customer organizations. Because these teams have different use cases and timelines, you must be an agile, general-athlete style product thinker who can dive deep into intricacies of how one team executes a technical workflow, closely examine the metrics of the systems to understand failure points, map an intertwined set of dependencies to build a coherent roadmap, and update executives on the current and future sets of your program all in the course of a single day.

Required Qualifications :

• 10+ years in Product or Program Management, dealing with both technical and non-technical teams
• Experience at advanced and scaled manufacturing companies, such as automotive, aerospace, defense, semiconductor, etc.
• Expertise in Manufacturing and Supply Chain processes and the software tools that enable them (including but not limited to MES, IIoT / Industry 4.0, PLM, QMS, Config / Change Management, ERP)
• Expertise in the development of both 1P (built) and 3P (bought) enterprise systems, with strong understanding of : access controls / security, infrastructure, feature development, configuration, administration, integrations, etc.
• Experience with coordinating and directing the effort made by a wide variety of technologist skillsets, including software development (PMs and engineers), enterprise systems (solution architects, solution engineers, sys admins), and data (analytic and data engineers, analysts)
• Exposure to both high-rate and prototype / low-rate manufacturing processes, as well as different manufacturing types (continuous, batch)
• Deeply analytical in nature, with the ability to harness data to drive decisions and build solutions to capture and enrich data where it is lacking
• Strong critical thinking skills, with the ability to challenge traditional approaches when it comes to developing technology solutions rather than just default to "buy new shiny software" mentality
• Experience influencing stakeholders from the shop floor to the boardroom across vision-setting, culture, program updates, and postmortems.
• Demonstrated success decomposing a problem into addressable component parts and arranging the correct sequencing
• Proven ability to "see around corners" by crafting a strategy for 12-18 months into the future
• Excellent written / verbal communication and project management skills
• Ability to think systemically, take decisive action quickly, and above everything else, find a way for the business to win
• Must be able to travel up to 33% of the time, as your stakeholders will be geographically dispersed
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

Preferred Qualifications :

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 :

Anduril is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. The Anduril team is made up of incredibly talented and unique individuals, who together are disrupting industry norms by creating new paths towards the future of defense technology. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, Veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law, including those with a criminal history, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the CA Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. We actively encourage members of recognized minorities, women, Veterans, and those with disabilities to apply, and we work to create a welcoming and supportive environment for all applicants throughout the interview process. If you are someone passionate about working on problems that have a real-world impact, we'd love to hear from you!