Anduril Industries is looking to establish and lead a product operations function to streamline product planning, building, and delivery, manage SKUs and configurations, leverage data for insights, optimize business systems, improve documentation, standardize processes, enable sales and marketing, and provide executive communication to support the scaling of their defense technology products.
Requirements
- Proven experience in product operations or similar functions within hardware/software businesses.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to build dashboards, metrics, and business insights.
- Experience in industries with multiple SKUs/configurations (automotive, robotics, aerospace, or similar strongly preferred).
- Experience with building Sales Configurators a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to build scalable, repeatable processes in fast-paced, startup-like environments.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product Managers, TPMs, and Architects to streamline how we plan, build, and deliver products.
- Establish discipline around BOM planning, SKU structures, naming conventions, and release communications to reduce confusion and ensure consistency across teams.
- Collect, analyze, and visualize data on product usage, performance, and customer feedback.
- Own and drive adoption of JIRA, Confluence, and other business system tools to improve planning, tracking, and execution across the product lifecycle.
- Architect documentation systems that let internal users (engineering, BD, operations, etc.) quickly find what they need to enable their workflows.
- Define repeatable processes for deployments, upgrades, and release readiness—moving from ad hoc execution to scalable, world-class practices.
- Collaborate with Product Marketing, Design and Proposal teams to build product materials and internal enablement tools that help the org understand what's real, saleable, and how to communicate it.
Other
- Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity; capable of driving clarity and execution on complex, cross-functional problems.
- Excellent communication skills—able to influence across PMs, TPMs, engineers, and business teams; strong writer and presenter.
- Leadership presence—able to partner credibly with senior stakeholders and, over time, grow the function into a team.
- Identify operational pain points, propose compelling solutions to leadership, and align diverse stakeholders and drive implementation and execution.
- Deliver crisp updates, proposals, and presentations that give leadership clarity on progress, gaps, and recommended paths forward.
