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Sr. Program Manager (UAE)

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Maneuver Dominance Engineering : Program Management
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Hybrid (Abu Dhabi), Abu Dhabi$147k - $195kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior program management role for Anduril’s Omen program in Abu Dhabi, UAE, balancing innovation and execution across a highly complex, global defense program with cross-functional leadership and in-country resourcing.

Responsibilities

  • - Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, external clients, and industry partners, act as the local liaison for UAE relationships, coordinate with subsystem suppliers, in-country test organizations, facility establishment, and customer engagements; communicate outputs including cost forecasts, schedule, resources, risks, and opportunities.
  • - Enable Cross Team Collaboration: Manage and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple teams; ensure vision alignment through development to production, including test operations.
  • - Technical Ownership: Drive technical outcomes by understanding system performance, managing risks with Engineering leads, using metrics to derive insights and communicate state of the system to customers.
  • - Execute Autonomously: Independently handle broad/ambiguous client requirements; demonstrate ownership and partner with Anduril’s engineers.
  • - Shape Growth Opportunities: Draft technical proposals; scope and estimate potential projects and scaling opportunities.
  • - Strategic Planning & Execution: Translate business goals into actionable plans with milestones; oversee UAE personnel, budget, and resources for initiatives.

Qualifications

  • - 8+ years in a customer-facing program management role and/or systems engineering, preferably in defense, national security, or aerospace
  • - Proven experience leading a technical team to field hardware or software products through the lifecycle including testing
  • - Proven experience leading product and manufacturing teams through initial low-rate production
  • - Solid technical aptitude with demonstrated contributions to technical designs and software lifecycle; ability to work with engineering teams
  • - Ability to work with internal/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 with a hands-on attitude
  • - Experience with international suppliers and customers
  • - Ability to obtain a Secret Clearance
  • - Ability to travel up to 50% of the time

Skills

Required:Program managementStakeholder managementTechnical liaison

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (health, recovery, and more) available at little to no cost to employees
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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