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Account Director, Maritime

Anduril· Manufacturing : Undersea Dominance - Production : Production Operations
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Canberrafull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior, externally facing role leading customer engagement for Dive-XL maritime program in Australia, acting as Voice of the Customer within the product organisation and coordinating across Navy, Defence contractors, and Commonwealth departments to define, develop, and deploy an autonomous undersea capability.

Responsibilities

  • Commonwealth Relationships: Contribute to Anduril’s engagement across the RAN, NSSG, and the Commonwealth departments that shape, sponsor and fund the program, from capability sponsors through to the operators who will take the vehicle to sea.
  • Engagement Rhythm: Support a disciplined cadence of briefings, capability forums, working groups and demonstrations across classified and unclassified environments, so that Anduril’s standing with the customer is institutional rather than personal.
  • Voice of the Customer: Act as a principal channel between the customer and Anduril, conveying customer intent within the company and representing our capability accurately outside it.
  • Employment Concepts: Contribute to the development of employment concepts and CONOPS for autonomous undersea capability in the Australian context, and to a shared understanding of how the RAN intends to operate the capability.
  • Operational Need into Product Requirement: Distil operational analysis, threat assessments and customer intent into clear, prioritised capability needs, and provide substantiated input to the Dive-XL roadmap in partnership with product and engineering leadership.
  • Capture Support: Support the growth path from current contracts toward fleet scale. Contribute to early requirement shaping and to responses to Commonwealth approaches to market, working with Growth, Global Defence, Programs, Contracts and Legal within the ASDEFCON environment.
  • Alignment to Product Strategy: Work with the Product Director to keep contract execution and customer commitments aligned to the capability roadmap, identifying and escalating misalignment early.
  • Trials and Demonstrations: Support customer engagement around trials, demonstrations and milestone events, ensuring that what is demonstrated is represented accurately and consistently.
  • Global Product Line: Represent Australian customer interests within the wider Dive-XL portfolio, and carry lessons from Australian activity into US, AUKUS and allied engagement.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Engineering, Programs, Support Systems, Test and Evaluation, Contracts, Growth and Communications to present a coherent Anduril to the customer.

Qualifications

  • Operational Background: Extensive RAN warfare experience with a demonstrated operational record at sea. A submarine background is strongly preferred; a Principal Warfare Officer with undersea warfare experience will be equally considered.
  • Navy Capability Experience: Experience within a capability manager, force design, or requirements role, including developing and defending a capability requirement through the Defence process.
  • Established Network: An existing network across Navy, Defence and the Australian undersea enterprise, with a demonstrated ability to build and sustain trusted relationships at senior levels.
  • Communication and Presence: Ability to establish trust quickly and to communicate complex concepts to audiences ranging from software engineers to flag officers.
  • International Experience: Allied exchange, coalition operations, or overseas posting, with the standing to operate credibly alongside US and UK partners.
  • ASDEFCON Familiarity: Working knowledge of the ASDEFCON environment and Commonwealth approaches to market, including the ability to review a Statement of Work and identify areas of technical or delivery risk.
  • Technical Literacy: Sufficient technical depth to engage substantively on autonomy, mission systems, payloads and undersea employment concepts, and to participate in trade-off discussions with engineering teams.
  • Commercial Judgement: Experience shaping scope, developing the case for investment, and understanding how a capability decision becomes a funded program.
  • Pace and Ownership: A high-ownership approach with a strong bias for action, and a demonstrated ability to speak Commonwealth and move at Anduril pace in a fast-moving environment.
  • Travel: Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required, approximately 30%, including to trials and waterfront activity.
  • Security: Must be able to obtain and maintain a NV2 security clearance. TSPV desirable.

Skills

Required:Operational leadershipCustomer relationship management

Benefits

  • Highly competitive equity grants included in the compensation package
  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees (health, recovery, and more)
  • Explore Our Benefits (link provided in description)
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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