Account Director - Maritime

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril Maritime delivers platforms, systems and integrated effects in the maritime domain. Autonomous vehicles are central to these capabilities, with sustained emphasis on endurance, autonomy and mission capability. In Australia, the team’s work centres on Dive-XL. The Australian program spans the platform, payloads, autonomy and the supporting enterprise required to field and sustain the capability, delivered with an Australian workforce and an Australian supply chain, in close partnership with the Commonwealth.

ABOUT THE JOB

As Account Director - Maritime you will support Anduril’s customer engagement for Dive-XL in Australia. You will be a key stakeholder in the Australian customer relationship and a principal voice of the customer within the product organisation, working across the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Naval Shipbuilding and Sustainment Group (NSSG), Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group and the Commonwealth departments that shape, sponsor and fund the program. You will operate as part of a broader engagement team spanning Growth, Programs, Engineering and Contracts rather than as the sole interface to the customer. The role combines operational background, capability development experience and commercial judgement. You will be credible discussing autonomy behaviours and payload trade-offs with engineering teams, familiar with how capability requirements are developed, contested and funded within Defence, and conversant with the ASDEFCON framework through which intent becomes contracted scope. This is a senior, externally facing role in which your operational judgement and customer insight will directly inform how an autonomous undersea capability is defined, developed and deployed.

Internal Interfaces
Product Director, XL-AUV: You report to the Product Director and provide prioritised customer and operational input to the Dive-XL roadmap, ensuring that Australian requirements are represented in product decisions and that customer commitments remain consistent with the capability plan.

SEA1200 Program Director: The Account Director and the SEA1200 Program Director operate as a partnership across the same program. The Program Director owns contract execution and the delivery organisation that performs it; you own the customer interface, keeping the contract sold and creating the conditions to extend it. Both roles work from a shared understanding of commitments, delivery performance and customer expectations, and neither succeeds without the other.

Growth and Global Defence: You work with the Growth organisation and Anduril’s Global Defence teams to identify, qualify and support capture opportunities, aligning Australian pursuits with wider international campaigns and ensuring that positioning in Australia is consistent with the company’s global approach to allied undersea programs.

Engineering, Programs and Test and Evaluation: You provide the operational context behind requirements and represent the customer’s perspective in design, trials and acceptance discussions, so that engineering effort remains anchored to real warfighting problems.


WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Commonwealth Relationships: Contribute to Anduril’s engagement across the RAN, NSSG, and the Commonwealth departments that shape, sponsor and fund the program, from capability sponsors through to the operators who will take the vehicle to sea.
• Engagement Rhythm: Support a disciplined cadence of briefings, capability forums, working groups and demonstrations across classified and unclassified environments, so that Anduril’s standing with the customer is institutional rather than personal.
• Voice of the Customer: Act as a principal channel between the customer and Anduril, conveying customer intent within the company and representing our capability accurately outside it.
• Employment Concepts: Contribute to the development of employment concepts and CONOPS for autonomous undersea capability in the Australian context, and to a shared understanding of how the RAN intends to operate the capability.
• Operational Need into Product Requirement: Distil operational analysis, threat assessments and customer intent into clear, prioritised capability needs, and provide substantiated input to the Dive-XL roadmap in partnership with product and engineering leadership.
• Capture Support: Support the growth path from current contracts toward fleet scale. Contribute to early requirement shaping and to responses to Commonwealth approaches to market, working with Growth, Global Defence, Programs, Contracts and Legal within the ASDEFCON environment.
• Alignment to Product Strategy: Work with the Product Director to keep contract execution and customer commitments aligned to the capability roadmap, identifying and escalating misalignment early.
• Trials and Demonstrations: Support customer engagement around trials, demonstrations and milestone events, ensuring that what is demonstrated is represented accurately and consistently.
• Global Product Line: Represent Australian customer interests within the wider Dive-XL portfolio, and carry lessons from Australian activity into US, AUKUS and allied engagement.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Engineering, Programs, Support Systems, Test and Evaluation, Contracts, Growth and Communications to present a coherent and consistent Anduril to the customer.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Operational Background: Extensive RAN warfare experience with a demonstrated operational record at sea. A submarine background is strongly preferred; a Principal Warfare Officer with undersea warfare experience will be equally considered.
• Navy Capability Experience: Experience within a capability manager, force design, or requirements role, including developing and defending a capability requirement through the Defence process.
• Established Network: An existing network across Navy, Defence and the Australian undersea enterprise, with a demonstrated ability to build and sustain trusted relationships at senior levels.
• Communication and Presence: Ability to establish trust quickly and to communicate complex concepts to audiences ranging from software engineers to flag officers.
• International Experience: Allied exchange, coalition operations, or overseas posting, with the standing to operate credibly alongside US and UK partners.
• ASDEFCON Familiarity: Working knowledge of the ASDEFCON environment and Commonwealth approaches to market, including the ability to review a Statement of Work and identify areas of technical or delivery risk.
• Technical Literacy: Sufficient technical depth to engage substantively on autonomy, mission systems, payloads and undersea employment concepts, and to participate in trade-off discussions with engineering teams. This role requires both customer-facing experience and genuine technical depth.
• Commercial Judgement: Experience shaping scope, developing the case for investment, and understanding how a capability decision becomes a funded program.
• Pace and Ownership: A high-ownership approach with a strong bias for action, and a demonstrated ability to speak Commonwealth and move at Anduril pace in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required, approximately 30%, including to trials and waterfront activity.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a NV2 security clearance. TSPV desirable.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• RAN submarine service at command, executive officer, or watch-leader qualified level.
• Deep undersea warfare subject-matter expertise with an operational background.
• Direct experience with uncrewed or autonomous systems in an operational or capability development context.
• Prior experience within the Australian Submarine Agency, Navy Capability Division, NSSG,
• ASCA, or AUKUS Pillar 1 / Pillar 2 structures.
• Existing relationships across allied undersea programs and partner navies.