Director of Business Line Operations

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril Imaging designs and builds state-of-the-art imaging systems, deployed to tackle the most significant security challenges of America and its allies.

ABOUT THE JOB

You will report to the Head of Operations for the Anduril Mission Systems Division but work directly with the Imaging Business Line General Manager, Imaging leadership team, and teams across Anduril corporate (finance, etc.) to run business operations for the Imaging business line. Your work will vary from quick-turn operational fire-fighting, building and redesigning processes, to leading high-impact strategic projects. This role allows you to not only see the magic behind running the Imaging business line and engage with each part of the business line (program management, engineering, production, and corporate), but to also work with and support the Imaging GM to drive toward business success.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Drive day-to-day business operations for the Imaging Business Line. This would include financial tracking, staffing/hiring, corporate governance, etc and working with cross functional partners across these domains. Specific examples include:
• Manage the Imaging Business Line P&L in partnership with a FP&A partner to track financial health of budget against goals, drive actions to maintain operating expenses with budget, assess financial data and create strategies to drive toward margin targets, etc.
• Drive content preparation for Monthly Business Reviews and Quarterly Business Reviews for presentation to Anduril Executives
• Engage with Imaging product and program managers to track and report out status and risks
• Drive annual planning for Imaging Business Line as part of the corporate planning cycle.
• Manage staffing and hiring - Support tactical staffing assignments in service of critical business line needs, track headcount, and work with recruiting to prioritize open roles and determine hiring strategies needed for rapid scaling.
• Work with corporate technology to build the underlying data and system infrastructure for organizational operations - Confluence spaces, Jira systems, data drives, etc.
• Manage Imaging Business Line communications internal to the team and external across the company, such as All Hands, etc.
• Manage planning and strategy for facilities, secured spaces, and capital investment
• Own and execute on special projects for the Mission Systems Division and Imaging General Manager - Examples could include supporting acquisition integrations, working with the Imaging Head of Production on strategies to reduce production variance costs, brainstorming on org development, completing strategic assessments and studies for the Imaging General Manager, etc.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Undergraduate degree in an engineering major
• 8+ years of working experience with minimum 2+ years in a technical engineering role and 2+ years in a consulting, operations, finance, product/program management, or general business analyst role (You have a business foundation and understand how a P&L works)
• A strong communicator across a wide dynamic range - Ability to translate and articulate thoughts clearly and simply across a wide range of roles (working level engineers, finance partners, recruiters, cross functional leadership, and executives)
• Experience interfacing with leadership and executives - you understand how to cultivate trust and facilitate meetings for and engage with executives
• Strong emotional intelligence and ability to solve operational problems not only from a data-driven lens, but also in a people-centric way by building strong cross functional relationships across the company and within the hardware engineering organization
• Combined ability to execute on a tactical level as well as put together a strategy to solve complex, ambiguous, cross-functional problems. You are comfortable rolling up your sleeves and diving deep into executing operational tasks that require high attention to detail and high organization skills, but you can also zoom out at a 30,000 foot level to create a strategy that solves high level problems for the business line, division, and company.
• High ownership with the horsepower to juggle multiple (3-5+) large projects and priorities in parallel, at a rapid pace, and report out on progress regularly without dropping any balls.
• Discerning and an incredibly fast learner
• Highly Organized
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience working with imaging payloads or optical systems
• Experience working in a role that requires influencing stakeholders