Senior Program Manager
Leads technical programs for maritime defense products at Anduril, coordinating engineering, testing, and deployment while aligning with military customer needs and strategic goals.
- Compensation
- A$150K–A$250K
- Location
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Project management
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Marine Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Naval Architecture, or proven experience in a relevant field
- Minimum of 10 years experience with technical leadership and project management
- Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and with minimal direction
- 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 obtain and maintain a NV2 Australian Security Clearance
- Travel >25% to customer and test sites, some international
Nice to have
- Previous experience leading, managing, and executing technical programs/products, from ideation and early-stage design to technology development, system integration, testing, and deployment
- Significant customer-facing experience leading high profile and high stakes programs, including strong interpersonal skills and executive gravitas
- Australian Navy experience as a Submarine Officer, Surface Warfare Officer or significant experience with surface and sub-surface weapon, sensor and mission systems
- Demonstrated engineering management capability; proven technical and personnel leadership qualities
- Experience working on mission critical Defence systems
- Experience building and managing cross-functional teams focused around a common vision
Full 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.
Who we are:
Anduril's Maritime Division is responsible for planning and executing Anduril's product and revenue roadmap for maritime missions. Working across product, engineering, business development, logistics, and operations, the Maritime team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril maritime capabilities in a challenging operational environment worldwide. As a leader in the Maritime Division, you must be a technical leader with the expertise to evaluate, qualify, manage, and advocate for an increasing number of sophisticated parallel pursuits. This role is crucial in ensuring that each initiative aligns with the company's strategic direction and receives the appropriate resourcing, balancing innovation with practical execution to drive the business line's success.
About the role:
We are looking for someone to lead the technical development of maritime products from concept to delivery. You will work closely with Anduril’s Strategy team and strategic opportunity customers to develop these designs so that requirements are tied to customer inputs and there is traceability to program office technical decisions.
The spectrum of support will be diverse in nature and require you to leverage your technical expertise as well as leadership skills to set objectives, build cross-functional teams, and rapidly drive to completion. The ability to leverage your intuition and prior experience in programmatic level decisions will play a key component in making sure the right design, analysis and test steps are being completed to ensure success. The ideal candidate will leverage their experience executing and successfully completing prior highly optimized multi-disciplinary projects.
What you'll do:
- Lead, manage, and execute technical programs, from early-stage design through to technology development, system integration, testing, and deployment
- Integrate and immerse yourself in Anduril’s product development processes and build effective relationships with personnel across multiple business lines.
- Partner deeply with engineering leaders to drive successful program execution and team velocity across groups of engineering teams and more broadly across departments.