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Anduril

Builds autonomous weapons for the US and allies

Senior Product Manager - Manufacturing Software

Product ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeCosta Mesa, CA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of experience in software product management or a similar leading role in product development.
  • Domain expertise in a hardware-related industry such as manufacturing, supply chain, warehousing, or logistics.
  • Ability to gather and refine functional and non-functional requirements, including capacity, performance, and reliability, and turn them into a prioritized backlog.
  • Strong understanding of the interplay between enterprise systems, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), warehouse management systems (WMS), manufacturing execution systems (MES), product lifecycle management (PLM), and supplier portals.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders across a wide range of technical comfort and judge whether a request reflects an underlying need.
  • Demonstrated success working directly with end users in operational environments, including observing workflows firsthand on a production or factory floor.
  • Ability to navigate cross-team and cross-department dynamics, represent the customer point of view, and build alignment when priorities differ.
  • Ability to balance requirements across engineering, design, data, and business stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated success decomposing problems into addressable components and arranging their sequencing.
  • Ability to craft product strategy 6 to 12 months into the future.
  • Comfort maturing a product from minimum viable product (MVP) to enterprise-grade production.
  • Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time.
  • U.S. Person status is required because the position needs access to export-controlled data.
  • Must be eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

  • Develop a long-term strategy that navigates complex product tradeoffs, integration dependencies, and buy-versus-build decisions to advance the manufacturing software domain.
  • Gather and refine functional and non-functional requirements, including tool capacity, performance, and reliability, and synthesize them into a prioritized backlog.
  • Communicate roadmap and delivery information across stakeholders and determine whether requests reflect actual needs or whether the underlying problem should be solved differently.
  • Walk the factory floor, speak directly with technicians and operators about their work, and turn their input into product improvement opportunities.
  • Navigate organizational dynamics between Maritime Digital Production and partner platform teams, advocating for the customer when Maritime's needs differ from a platform team's preferred approach.
  • Explore and incorporate technologies that enhance operational leverage.
  • Drive adoption and enablement of manufacturing software across production and operations teams.
  • Own product strategy, roadmap, success metrics, and deployment of factory-floor applications used by production operators, supervisors, and manufacturing engineers.
  • Craft the product vision, high-level roadmap, and critical dependencies 6 to 12 months ahead; solicit stakeholder input and buy-in, communicate product goals, manage delivery expectations, and escalate major tradeoffs and decisions.
  • Set portfolio outcomes with engineering, design, and operations partners; support prioritization of competing work in rapid development cycles and adapt goals as new information arrives.
  • Conduct onsite user research on the factory floor, speak with technicians and operators, gather internal expert feedback, review product data, and investigate the industry.
  • Capture core workflows and translate them into well-scoped requirements and success hypotheses.
  • Fill gaps from design through delivery to realize solutions, communicate proactively with team members and stakeholders, meet milestones, and set a high bar for deployment, adoption, and floor support.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience building or owning manufacturing execution systems (MES), shop-floor control systems, or operational software for factory, warehouse, or field environments.
  • Hands-on experience in manufacturing industries, including time on assembly lines or in production facilities working directly with operators and technicians.
  • Experience with user interface and user experience (UI/UX) web design tools such as Figma.
  • Familiarity with frontier artificial intelligence (AI) tooling and AI-assisted software development workflows.
  • Experience in hyper-growth, startup-like environments, balancing speed, ambiguity, and long-term platform health.
  • Background in operations research, industrial engineering, lean manufacturing, or continuous improvement methodologies.

About the Company

Anduril

Builds autonomous weapons for the US and allies

Anduril builds autonomous weapons, such as drones, cruise missiles, and robot submarines, for the US military and its allies, often developing them with its own money before any order arrives. In 2024 it beat Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman for an Air Force contract to develop Fury, a pilotless jet that flies alongside crewed fighters. Its Lattice software merges camera and radar feeds into one live map and lets a few operators direct many drones and weapons at once, including other companies' systems. Governments buy its systems under contract, and Anduril builds much of the hardware in its own factories. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey co-founded Anduril in 2017, and it is based in Costa Mesa, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Private
Total funding
$11.5B
Headquarters
Costa Mesa, CA
Founded
2017

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