Head of Mission Readiness - Altius

About Anduril

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 job

We are looking for a Head of Mission Readiness for Altius 700, based in Costa Mesa. Altius is Anduril's launched-effects platform, deployable from ground, air, or sea to conduct ISR and targeting, kinetic engagement, RF decoy, SIGINT, comms relay, and cyber warfare missions. The 700 variant is early-stage and fast-moving, currently ramping through production and flight test.

You will be building, not maintaining. This is the earliest seat we have. Altius 700 has no established sustainment program to build from, and the technical baseline is still changing underneath you. Your job is to stand sustainment up anyway, while the product matures, and own the revenue and margin that comes with it.

We are a fast-growing company at an early stage, and you will own material projects that shape the company's trajectory. Anduril fosters a collaborative culture with real ownership and room to grow.

What you'll do

• Direct all Mission Readiness and Integrated Product Support activities across your business line, including execution, process, best practices, technical oversight, and budget.
• Own O&S revenue and business line O&S margin.
• Build service offerings that grow revenue, and cut fielding and sustainment cost to raise margin.
• Partner directly with sourcing, quality, and flight test so sustainment planning keeps pace with an actively evolving technical baseline.
• Build training and field support materials ahead of first fielded units reaching operators, since Altius 700 has no established sustainment program to build from.
• Make sure products are mission ready: feed design-for-sustainment requirements into Engineering, and shape sustainment solutions per product, customer, and CONOP with Growth.
• Keep products mission ready: hire, develop, and train a cross-functional execution team, and drive the Quality, Engineering, and Mission Readiness field-feedback root cause and corrective action loop.
• Turn unstructured problems into structured, repeatable frameworks, at pace. Implement the logistics systems, standards, and data that make operations measurable and decisions evidence-based.
• Operate in a matrixed structure: you will sit on the Business Line Leadership Team, take tasking from the GM, and report into the central Mission Readiness organization. Influence without direct authority is core to the job.
• Partner with engineering on design concepts, criteria, and product research, development, testing, and integration.
• Shape proposals, business plans, work statements, operating budgets, and the financial terms of contracts. Influence contract acquisition, negotiation, and modification.
• Problem solve and clear obstacles for your team and your internal and external partners.
• Communicate relentlessly so internal and external teams always know what needs to happen and when.
• Be a team player where no task is too small. Roll up your sleeves. Embrace the startup life.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in DoD/government logistics or progressively complex program administration experience, including leadership roles in operations, manufacturing engineering, or supply chain.
• Demonstrates technical expertise and application of logistics management principles, concepts, and practice as well as leadership skills including organizing, planning, scheduling, and coordinating workloads to meet established deadlines or milestones.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
• Ability to travel as needed for the business. 
• Ability to be local or relocate to Costa Mesa, CA.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Expertise in regulatory requirements as it relates to the DoD or government logistics, preferably related to aircraft
• Experience working with, in, and around Air Force or other military branch Integrated Logistics operations.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong ability to work cross-functionally, including at a deeply technical level, in an unstructured environment; startup experience preferred.
• Strong outcome orientation with the ability to drive initiatives from inception to implementation and adoption. Willing and able to dive into tactical execution mode when needed to move the effort forward.
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects from idea conception to idea execution without assistance.
• Moves fast, has a positive attitude and can lead people directly and via influence.
• Government Proposal experience is desired.

US Salary Range 209000 - 278000 USD