Business Operations, Production

Job description

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. ABOUT THE TEAM Production at Anduril is responsible for the end-to-end process of procuring, manufacturing, and delivering hardware to our customers. The Production BizOps team is dedicated to staffing heavy-hitters against the highest-priority problems in the organization to help deliver hardware on-time, with quality, at cost. As a Manager on this team, you will lead a team of business operations professionals embedded across Production, driving execution on the most critical and complex challenges in one of Anduril's largest, fastest-growing organizations. ABOUT THE JOB You will own a portfolio of operational and strategic workstreams across Production — managing a team while staying hands-on in the work. Your team will be embedded across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Planning, and teams outside Production like Finance, Growth, and HR. You'll be responsible for setting priorities, unblocking your team, maintaining quality and speed of execution, and personally driving the highest-stakes problems. This role requires someone who can operate at the strategic level with leadership while still getting into the details when it matters. WHAT YOU'LL DO • Lead, develop, and manage a team of BizOps professionals, setting clear priorities, providing coaching, and holding the team accountable to high-quality, high-speed execution. • Own operational projects end-to-end, from Definition, Solution, to Implementation — and ensure your team does the same. You will be handed ambiguous, messy problems with little prescription on how to solve them. If this does not excite you, this is not the role for you. • Allocate your team against Production's highest-priority problems, matching the right people to the right workstreams and adjusting staffing as priorities shift. • Work on operational problems involving the intersection of hardware and software systems — from inventory management systems, to asset-tracking in the field, to manufacturing systems capturing quality-issue data on the production floor. Anduril is a hardware business, and tracking hardware is messy. We need our systems, tools, and processes to be up to the task. • Work on strategic problems, providing structure to ambiguity and shepherding cross-functional groups of stakeholders toward decisions on strategic issues — coupling first-principles thinking with the ability to rapidly and creatively conduct research (internally and externally) to detail the implications and tradeoffs of various decisions without losing sight of the simple "so what." • Work deeply within data and systems, becoming intimately familiar with how our business systems (ERP, MRP, HRIS, etc.) function, and how to leverage data from them to create insights and analytics (leveraging tools like Excel, Palantir Foundry, etc.), equipping functional teams with these insights and tools to measure and improve their processes. • Ensure your team can execute scrappy analyses on short timelines to get answers quickly, while also owning more scalable solutions that will make Anduril successful in the long term. • Project manage across many stakeholders — leading meetings with large groups of people, managing large Slack channels, and wrangling stakeholders toward a solution. You'll also coach your team to do the same effectively. • Work across functions and learn Anduril's business top-to-bottom. You and your team will interact with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, Engineering, HR, Recruiting, Growth, and more. BizOps is one of the most cross-functional teams at Anduril. • Partner with Production leadership to identify gaps, shape the BizOps roadmap, and ensure the team's work is aligned with the organization's most important objectives. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS • 8+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, internal operations, a business analyst role, or some other experience where you just had to figure out how to get stuff done — with at least 2 years of experience managing or leading a team. • You have a track record of developing people. You take pride in making the people around you better — through coaching, feedback, and setting a high bar. • You are self-driven and relentlessly proactive. You don't need someone to tell you to "move." You just move. We'd rather have to tell you to slow down than to speed up. • You don't wait on others to solve problems. You proactively step into the gap to offer solutions yourself — and you build a team that does the same. • You don't have to be told what to do or how to do it — you're the first one to bring forward solutions and ideas, then receptively take feedback and iterate with the team. You see your leadership peers as guardrails to keep you on track, but not the engine pushing you forward. You are that engine. • You have an appetite to build clear frameworks to structure problems. Hardware startups are messy — bringing clarity and structured thinking to the table is a huge asset. • You lean into acknowledging your weaknesses and take the idea of feedback and growth seriously — for yourself and for your team. • You get energy from developing others, being a thought partner, and translating operational problems into data problems — and then going and executing on them. • You have strong analytical