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Division Operations Lead

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Maneuver Dominance Engineering : Business Operations
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Costa Mesa, CA$166k - $220kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Leadership role within Anduril's Maneuver Dominance Division, overseeing the Costa Mesa-based Division Operations team. Focus on staffing, in-country operations, planning, resource allocation, and cross-functional program execution to support growth of autonomous vehicle systems including Thunder.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Division and Anduril leadership to build out and run the staffing machine for our organization, enabling efficient in country recruiting, facility and infrastructure standup, and allocation of resources as the organization scales.
  • Support our corporate planning cycle by building and managing the local business operations functions such as monitor performance against goals, financial plans, and headcount plans so we can hit our aggressive growth targets.
  • Work with Product Engineering and Test and Evaluation teams to find and close operations gaps and ensure seamless execution of program schedule.
  • Serve as liaison to Anduril UK for international trade and export compliance matters
  • Regularly monitor and analyze recruiting, staffing, and financial progress against plans and provide recommendations to leadership for resource planning and reallocation
  • Work with Anduril’s Business Operations, Analytics, and Finance teams to build out infrastructure to enable the Division to monitor and optimize the demand vs supply of resourcing across our most critical programs
  • Lead various strategic initiatives and projects as directed by leadership and the Head of Division Operations, ensuring they align with the overall business strategy and objectives
  • Coordinate and prepare for executive leadership meetings with partners and customers, including setting agendas, tracking action items, and ensuring follow-through.
  • Develop fundamental knowledge of Anduril product solutions to support regional growth and capture activities

Qualifications

  • You have 7 - 10 years of experience in consulting, operations, finance, or general business analysis.
  • You have a strong background in executing business operations and driving outcomes
  • Strong ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing, key business and program execution
  • You have strong fundamentals in operational accounting and finance
  • You love solving complex, ambiguous, cross-functional problems in a people-centric way
  • You’re both high ownership and low ego, approaching everything with strong outcome orientation and high humility
  • You get energy from being a thought partner for others and it excites you to spend time translating operational problems into data problems, and to then going and executing on them
  • You’re discerning and an incredibly fast learner
  • You’re tactical and don’t only sit at a 30,000 foot level
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance in United States

Skills

Required:Staffing and workforce planningOperations managementCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees)
  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
  • Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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