Product Operations Lead, Anduril Industries
ArsenalOS
$150-225k
Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
Travel up to 25% of the time
Office located in Costa Mesa, CA
Hardware and software for national security
Posted today
Hardware and software for national security
1001+ employees
Posted today
$150-225k
Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
Travel up to 25% of the time
Office located in Costa Mesa, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To defend against America's national security challenges to create a safer future for the nation.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience)
- Expertise with “rhythm of business” mechanisms, including planning methodologies, organizational health metrics, QBR/MBR/WBRs, coordinating roadmaps, managing dependencies, and optimizing processes
- Experience working in a software development or IT organizations, with an understanding of the enterprise software development lifecycle and the key disciplines (product management, engineering, design, architecture, infrastructure engineer, etc.)
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Proven track record in operations, project, or product management within a complex matrixed organization
- Proficiency in data analysis for tracking team health metrics and operational efficiency
- Strategic thinker with a proactive approach to risk mitigation and process improvement
- Ability to work at an extremely fast-paced startup where decisions must be made quickly and correctly
- Ability to decompose complicated problems into tangible step-by-step efforts, with the ability to figure out what problems must be solved now vs. later
- Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance
What the job involves
- The ArsenalOS organization is a cross-discipline “team of teams” in Anduril’s Corporate Technology department
- If Anduril were a body, ArsenalOS would be the central nervous system
- It’s the connected web of software, processes, and platforms we use to do our work — from initial design to manufacturing to finished product sustainment, along with everything in between
- It ensures that the right people have the right tools at the right time to do their jobs
- We are seeking a agile and relentless candidate to fill a new position in our department as our Product Operations Lead for ArsenalOS
- This role will serve as the “glue” between multiple teams that comprise ArsenalOS, helping manage and coordinate their many activities to ensure better synchronization of efforts and collaboration
- The role also includes significant stakeholder/customer engagement, as it works on solving the information and coordination gap between the many business and product teams reliant on ArsenalOS capabilities as well as Anduril customers
- You'll develop and maintain a consolidated product roadmap across all ArsenalOS teams
- Facilitate alignment workshops and syncs among product leads
- Implement systems to identify, track, and resolve cross-functional dependencies
- Maintain a risk register with an escalation process to address inter-team blockers
- Standardize recurring planning cadences (e.g., quarterly planning, sprint planning, retrospectives)
- Develop shared artifacts, templates, and reporting frameworks
- Track and analyze team health metrics and workflow performance
- Recommend tooling and process changes to improve velocity and reduce overhead
- Produce clear, digestible presentations that convey ArsenalOS current capabilities and future direction
- Establish mechanisms to align stakeholder priorities with the product roadmap& Collaboration:
- Foster cross-team visibility and a culture of user empathy, problem discovery, and best practices in solutioning
Our take
Anduril makes hardware and software for defense agencies including the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security. Its hardware products include specialist drones with a long flight time and surveillance towers.
This hardware is tied together by proprietary software, the Lattice platform, which uses sensor fusion, machine learning, and mesh networking to integrate real-time data from Anduril hardware and third-party systems into a single, autonomous operating picture. While the hardware observes and detects, the software can make decisions as to the threat level of any anomalies, and so allow for observation and protection of an area or building with minimal manpower.
Anduril closed a Series E funding round in 2022 led by Valor Equity Partners. This funding was used for research and development of its autonomous defense products, such as the Roadrunner, a modular twin-jet powered autonomous vehicle that can take off and land vertically. Variants of the Roadrunner include defensive warhead armed interceptors which are the first drone weapons that can be retrieved after deployment. The company has also expanded to Australia where it is working in tandem with the Australian Defence Force to improve its military technology and infrastructure and is recruiting talent worldwide to support its rapidly growing portfolio of defense projects.
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Insights
68% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2025
$2.5bn
SERIES G
Jan 2025
$14.3m
GRANT
Total funding: $6.2bn
Company benefits
- Full Family Health Coverage
- 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave for All Caregivers
- Family Planning & Support
- Incentivized Time Off
- Mental Health Resources
- Financial Planning
- Unlimited Provisions
- Professional Development
Company HQ
Irvine Business Complex, Irvine, CA
Leadership
Brian Schimpf
(Co-founder & CEO)Having studied at Cornell, they joined Palantir as an Engineer in 2007. They left after over 9 years in order to co-found Anduril in July 2017 as CEO.
Palmer Luckey
(Co-founder)They founded Oculus VR in April 2012, where they worked until April 2017 when they co-founded Anduril.
Trae Stephens
(Co-founder)Former Lead Data Analyst at LexisNexis for 2 years, prior to spending 5 at Palantir. They joined Founders Fund as a Partner in 2014, and co-founded Anduril in 2017.
Matt Grimm
(Co-founder & COO)Studied Engineering at Cornell before working as a Booz Allen Hamilton Consultant and spending over 6 years at Palantir as a Forward Deployed Engineer. They worked at Mithril Capital Management and Classy.org before co-founding Anduril in 2017.
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