Technical Program Manager, Anduril Industries

• Minimum of five years experience as a TPM in a high-paced, software development environment
• Robust technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges, trade-offs and risks; ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams
• Strong experience and familiarity in project management for software development; practical familiarity with a variety of methodologies and ability to apply them where best suited
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

Desirable

• Help define and align development teams’ roadmaps, ensuring clear understanding across teams and alignment with programs and staffing. Ensure the roadmap is clear, technical dependencies are understood and tracked, and staffing and resourcing are balanced to execute on teams’ roadmaps
• Autonomously execute with a high degree of ownership on broad requirements, managing stakeholders across the Software Platform organization, Business Lines and other company partners simultaneously and delivering successful outcomes
• Partner with engineering leaders to drive program execution, team velocity, and cross-functional collaboration, acting as an effective proxy when needed. Become a trusted partner to Anduril’s engineers
• Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple functional teams and cross-functional initiatives. Instill an efficient project management mindset and workflow across the teams
• Collaborate with product leads to scope, staff, and deliver capabilities that achieve company milestones, while supporting leads with staffing plans and prioritization
• Track and communicate program progress, defining efficient processes for broader status updates and proactively managing issues and obstacles. Clearly communicate across all stakeholders, ensuring the dependencies and blockers made clear, and tracked and acted on consistently
• Understand technical implementation at the architectural level, propose alternatives when necessary. Corral key performance indicators from across the business to help shape future organizational investments