Software Technical Program Manager, Strategic Defense

<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><div> <h3>ABOUT THE TEAM</h3> <p>Strategic Defense protects the United States and its allies from ballistic, hypersonic, and air-breathing threats. Those threats now arrive in seconds, maneuver mid-flight, and come in volleys designed to overwhelm the legacy systems meant to stop them — so we're building a software-defined command and control layer that can see, decide, and act faster than any human operator could alone. Our team spans autonomy, tracking, simulation and wargaming, hardware, systems engineering, and test and evaluation to build an accredited fire control system fielded rapidly and at scale.</p> <h3>ABOUT THE JOB</h3> <p>As a Software Technical Program Manager, you’ll own efforts to ensure that the Air Defense Software Team is operating effectively and efficiently. You will be owning the operational aspects of a large engineering team and partnering with engineering leads to optimize and scale team output, and ensure overall execution towards business goals. </p> <p>This role will focus on the Guam Defense System Battle Manager product. Experience with mid and upper tier Air Defense Command and Control programs is a plus. You will be helping to create a new strategic business line within Air Defense and will work closely with the other strategic Command and Control programs within Anduril.</p> <h4>WHAT YOU'LL DO</h4> <ul> <li>Help to define the roadmap for the Air Defense Software team while working with partner engineering teams to ensure that the organization’s technical roadmap is well<br>understood and that programs and staffing are aligned with the roadmap.</li> <li>Autonomously execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from internal engineering, program office, and third party corporate partners to own successful delivery of outcomes on multiple programs simultaneously.</li> <li>Partner deeply with engineering leaders to drive successful program execution and team velocity across groups of software teams and more broadly across departments.</li> <li>Be an effective proxy in program and organizational matters to help engineering leads scale.</li> <li>Demonstrate high ownership on all pieces of work; become a trusted partner to Anduril’s engineers.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Identify and resolve systemic execution issues across the team or group that require broader initiatives to resolve.</li> <li>Partner with product leads to scope, staff, and deliver capabilities to achieve company milestones.</li> <li>Identify, resolve, escalate key cross team dependencies.</li> <li>Support leads with quarterly and ongoing staffing plans across the organization, particularly where difficult prioritization conflicts exist.</li> &