International Deployment Manager, Asia-Pacific

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Air Defense team builds robots that defend the US and its allies from the ever-changing 21st century aerial threat. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of UAS threats. Working across product, engineering, business development, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems in challenging operational environments worldwide.

ABOUT THE JOB

In this role as a Deployment Lead on the Air Defense team, you are responsible for delivering Air Defense capabilities in the South Pacific that exceed your customer’s expectations and help them accomplish their Air Defense mission. You'll be directly responsible for the air defense mission in your AO, becoming a subject matter expert on and critical partner to your customer. You fulfill this responsibility through rigorous operational execution, painstaking attention to detail, proactive communication, deep mission understanding, and hard-won product expertise. You remain agile in your ability to solve problems. You feel ownership over the reliability, sustainability, and performance of all assets and technologies deployed to your customers and users, and ensure that the system delivers when they need it most. You represent Anduril to our customers, building their confidence and trust through your professionalism and commitment to excellence. You also represent our customers back to Anduril, communicating user feedback and lessons learned to continuously improve our systems within a complex adaptive environment.

What You’ll Do

• Deployment planning and execution: We execute hundreds of deployment events each year, including site installations, test and evaluation exercises, demonstrations, and training and maintenance visits. You will orchestrate your share of these events, leading a cross-functional team that spans hardware supply, logistics, engineering, and more to do whatever it takes to achieve mission success for Anduril and our customers. Meticulous, resourceful, and detailed-oriented, you will manage every step of the deployment process, from site survey to testing, pack-out, installation, training, and sustainment. No job is too small. You consistently demonstrate extraordinary judgment, grit, and composure in high-pressure situations. You anticipate every contingency, build lightweight processes, soberly assess and mitigate risk, and deliberately learn from your experiences to continuously improve.
• Relationship management: Operate independently in a high stakes OCONUS environment. Build trust with customers, industry partners, users, and Anduril teammates through effective communication, positive attitude, and follow-through. With careful listening and observation, you internalize your counterpart’s priorities and requirements. With empathy and responsiveness, you quickly build rapport, trust, and confidence in the capabilities you are bringin to the fight. You develop relationships across the organization and communicate honestly and directly. You are committed to giving and receiving feedback well. Your partners always know what you expect from them, and know exactly what to expect from you.
• Mission expertise: Develop a deep knowledge of your customer’s mission requirements, including the nature of the threats they face, regulatory challenges, resource constraints, rules of engagement, and more. You will become a subject matter expert and the voice of the customer, capable of effectively communicating requirements and CONOPS to Anduril engineers so they can continue to enhance our capability to meet evolving mission needs. You are deeply motivated to shape the future of air defense.
• Product expertise: Develop a thorough understanding of the capabilities and limitations of Anduril’s Family of Systems. You are innately curious about the technology underpinning our capability, and are not satisfied with a superficial understanding of how and why it works. You are constantly educating yourself about the strengths and weaknesses of different sensor modalities, the challenges of sensor fusion, power and networking requirements, and more. You will become an opinionated power user who can reliably forecast how our capability will perform against a broad range of threat profiles, environmental conditions, and mission constraints.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced STEM degree or 4+ years of technical work experience, preferably in the defense, national security, or aerospace domain
• Highly organized creative problem-solver with proven project management skills
• Proven experience leading tech-enabled teams of peers while building a culture of influence through relationships
• Deep interest in national security issues and defense technologies, with a commitment to lifelong learning
• Willing to travel up to 50% of the year: Asia-Pacific ~35%, other travel for ~15%
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior experience working in the Asia-Pacific Region
• Mandarin proficiency strongly preferred