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Sr. Program Manager (UAE)

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Maneuver Dominance Engineering : Program Management
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Hybrid (Abu Dhabi)full-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Senior Program Manager for the Omen program in Abu Dhabi, UAE, responsible for balancing innovation with practical execution, driving strategic decision making, evaluating milestones, and managing in-country resourcing across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, external clients, and industry partners to gather insights, align objectives, and secure buy-in for strategic initiatives. Act as the local liaison for UAE relationships, including subsystem suppliers, in-country test organizations, establishment of facilities, and coordination of customer engagements. Communicate outputs including cost forecasts, schedule, resource requirements, risks, and opportunities.
  • Enable Cross Team Collaboration: Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple teams and initiatives. Collaborate with leads to ensure vision alignment and seamless execution through development and into production, including test operations.
  • Technical Ownership: Drive technical outcomes through understanding system performance, managing risks and opportunities with Engineering leads, using metrics to derive insights, and maintaining a clear understanding of the system state for customer communication.
  • Execute Autonomously: Autonomously execute on broad/ambiguous requirements from external clients. Demonstrate high ownership on all pieces of work.
  • Shape Growth Opportunities: Support drafting technical proposals, ensuring projects and scaling opportunities are accurately scoped, estimated, and aligned with capabilities and strategic goals.
  • Strategic Planning & Execution: Translate strategic goals into actionable project plans, set milestones, drive initiatives from conception to completion, and oversee UAE allocation of personnel, budget, and resources.

Qualifications

  • 8+ year of experience in a customer-facing program management role and/or systems engineering in defense, national security, or aerospace
  • Proven experience leading a technical team to field hardware/software through product lifecycle including test
  • Proven experience leading a product and manufacturing team through initial low rate production
  • Solid technical aptitude with demonstrated contributions to technical designs and software lifecycle
  • Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders across technical levels
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong technical, analytical and quantitative skills with data-driven decision making
  • Ability to work through ambiguity and drive progress
  • Experience with international suppliers and customers
  • Must obtain Secret Clearance
  • Willingness to travel up to 50%

Skills

Required:Program managementStakeholder managementTechnical liaisonRisk management

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available to full-time employees
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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