Quality Applications Program Manager @ 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.

The Business Systems team is responsible for building and improving the many business systems that enables Anduril to accomplish its mission. Anduril’s supply chain, accounting, sales & growth, engineering, field maintenance, quality, manufacturing, and many more teams rely on the technology built by us. We work across the company to ensure we have the tools and capabilities necessary for mission success.

As the Quality Applications Program Manager, you will be responsible for delivering solutions that enable the performance of Anduril’s many hardware products. To accomplish this, you will partner with multiple teams and systems that are responsible for the discovery, development, and delivery of quality performance. These teams include Quality Engineering, Reliability, Configuration Management, Production/Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Test & Evaluation, and more. You will have to develop a detailed understanding of each team’s challenges and requirements to understand what solutions can best address their needs. You will architect and develop solutions in partnership with technical teams and drive adoption & enable best practices for scale and efficiency. Because these teams have different use cases and timelines, you must be an agile, general-athlete style PM who can pivot from deep diving the intricacies of how one team executes a technical workflow, to closely examining the metrics of the systems to understand where the failure points are, to mapping an intertwined set of dependencies to build a roadmap, to updating executives on the current and future sets of your program all in the course of a single day.

Key Responsibilities

You will be responsible for:

Developing the program vision after synthesizing stakeholder requirements and feedback, and aligning with targeted business outcomes
Serve as the “single threaded leader” for the Quality / Product Performance initiative
Crafting a roadmap and ensuring that it is effectively decomposed for technical teams’ backlog
Communicating across stakeholders on your program’s development and roadmap, as well as monitoring and reporting on program performance to understand if business outcomes are getting met
Driving adoption and enablement through the use of change management tools, schedules, and user engagement (UAT, training, sandbox environment, piloting, etc).

Required Characteristics:

Anduril is an extremely fast-paced defense technology startup that is rapidly scaling itself. Our culture is one of ambition, hard work, relentless pursuit of excellence, and deliberate disruption. The successful candidate will be one who demonstrates the follow core characteristics:

Bias for Action - they ask for forgiveness, not permission, and hate the idea of waiting around to be told what to do. They’ve never seen a wall you haven’t wanted to run through!
Outcome-Oriented - They determine what the business needs and work backwards from those outcomes, rather than working forwards from a particular system’s capabilities
Customer Focused - They display deep user empathy to boost engagement and build experiences that delight
Dive Deep - They sweat the details and roll up their sleeves to uncover the root causes for systemic issues. They eat metrics for breakfast!
Ownership - They care deeply not just about their program, but for all the business outcomes that their program supports, holding themselves accountable for everything it both does and fails to do
Agility - They change directions easily and without regret, quickly adapting to shifting business priorities
First Principles Thinking - They approach problems and develop solutions not based on what a vendor recommends or because it’s how they did things at their last job, but from a deep appreciation of what is best for the enterprise

Required Qualifications

7+ years in Product or Program Management, dealing with both technical and non-technical teams
Strong understanding of Manufacturing / Production and Quality processes and lifecycle
Excellent written / verbal communication and project management skills
Proven track record of being able to quickly acquire domain knowledge and build rapport with diverse set of stakeholders
Ability to balance requirements across engineering, data, and business stakeholders
Demonstrated success decomposing a problem into addressable component parts and arranging the correct sequencing
Proven ability to “see around corners” by crafting a strategy for 12-18 months into the future
Must be able to travel up to 33% of the time, as your stakeholders will be geographically dispersed
Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

Preferred Characteristics

Have expertise working with key Quality systems, including: Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS), Risk, Quality Management, AS9100 requirements, and Reliability
Understanding of digital thread concepts and the ability to define their plans for quality and reliability tooling within the wider Anduril digital engineering environment.
Familiarity with with quality management and planning digital tools.
Familiarity with with reliability engineering and simulation digital tools.

US Salary Range

$154,000—$231,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril’s total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

Platinum Healthcare Benefits: For U.S. roles, we offer top tier platinum coverage (medical, dental, vision) that are 100% covered by Anduril for you and 90% covered for your dependents.
- For UK roles, Private Medical Insurance (PMI): Anduril will cover the full cost of the insurance premium for an employee and dependents.
- For AUS roles, Private health plan through Bupa: Coverage is fully subsidized by Anduril.
Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance 100% covered by Anduril, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a holiday hiatus in December, and highly competitive PTO plans.
16 weeks of paid Caregiver & Wellness Leave to care for a family member, bond with your baby, or tend to your own medical condition.
Family Planning & Parenting Support: Fertility (eg, IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carrier coverage with additional benefits and resources to provide support from planning to parenting.
Mental Health Resources: We provide free mental health resources 24/7 including therapy, life coaching, and more. Additional work-life services, such as free legal and financial support, available to you as well.
A professional development stipend is available to all Andurilians.
Daily Meals and Provisions: For many of our offices this means breakfast, lunch and fully stocked micro-kitchens.
Company-funded commuter benefits available based on your region.
Relocation assistance (depending on role eligibility).
401(k) retirement savings plan - both a traditional and Roth 401(k). (US roles only)

The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.

Anduril is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. The Anduril team is made up of incredibly talented and unique individuals, who together are disrupting industry norms by creating new paths towards the future of defense technology. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, Veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law, including those with a criminal history, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the CA Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. We actively encourage members of recognized minorities, women, Veterans, and those with disabilities to apply, and we work to create a welcoming and supportive environment for all applicants throughout the interview process. If you are someone passionate about working on problems that have a real-world impact, we’d love to hear from you!

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Key Responsibilities

Required Characteristics:

Required Qualifications

Preferred Characteristics

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