Business Operations Lead

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><p>The Business Operations team at Anduril has two primary responsibilities:</p> <ol> <li>Help Anduril Scale More Efficiently: Anduril’s operations teams work across and within each division and functional organization to help them manage the remarkable growth that the organization faces while maintaining the company’s fast-paced, scrappy culture. Whether it is building out a new process, standing up a function that didn’t previous exist, or building out data-capture and analytics-reporting muscles, the team works to drive Anduril towards a more efficient status.</li> <li>Executing Special Projects: Operators are frequently pulled into high-priority initiatives that must be solved for Anduril to continue its growth, but do not fall neatly into the purview of an existing function. They are some of the first individuals to get tapped when a messy problem needs solving.</li> </ol> <p>As a member of the central Business Operations team, you will support any functional org (e.g., Production, Strategic Real Estate, Mission Readiness, etc.) or business line (e.g., Air Dominance & Strike, Connected Warfare, Maritime, etc.), embedded and working cross-functionally with leaders and other stakeholders to solve the organization’s messiest problems, capture data, problem-solve by acting upon that data, and enable others to do the same.</p> <h3>WHAT YOU'LL DO</h3> <ul> <li>Own operational projects end-to-end, from definition, to solutioning, to implementation, to clean transition of ownership. You will be handed ambiguous problems (stand up a new facility, diligence an acquisition target, localize a product for a new customer) with little information on how to solve them. If this does not <em>excite</em> you, this is not the role for you.</li> <li>Solve problems at the intersection of people, hardware, and software systems. Anduril is a hardware business, and tracking hardware is messy. Our operations teams work on:</li> <ul> <li>Inventory management systems</li> <li>Staffing & recruiting operations</li> <li>Asset-tracking in the field</li> <li>Manufacturing systems capturing data on quality issues on the production floor</li> </ul> <li>Forward-deploy to new locations to stand up facilities, establish presence, and build relationships with customers, partners, contractors, government stakeholders, and prospective hires. You may be Anduril's face on the ground before there is a local team to hand off to.</li> <li>Partner closely with Strategic Real Estate, Global Defense, and Corporate Development on site selection, lease execution, facility buildout, tenders and proposals, localization planning, M&A diligence, and post-acquisition operational integration.</li> <li>Work on strategic problems, providing structure to ambiguity and shepherding cross-functional groups of stakeholders toward informed decisions. The role requires coupling first-principles thinking with creative and iterative analysis to fully detail the impacts of potential decisions, often in unf