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Director, CEO Office

Anduril· Corporate Operations : CEO Office : CEO Office
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Costa Mesa, CA$220k - $292kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior operating leadership role supporting the CEO’s highest-priority work. Responsible for end-to-end ownership of initiatives, building and leading a team, and coordinating across senior leaders, government stakeholders, customers, and external partners to execute with high tempo.

Responsibilities

  • Run the operating rhythm. Own the cadences, processes, forward planning, prioritization, and information flows that keep the team ahead of what is coming rather than reacting to it.
  • Build and lead a high-performing team. Set a high bar, establish clear ownership/priorities/timelines, develop people, and build an organization capable of absorbing increasing scope under the Chief of Staff.
  • Turn CEO priorities into executable work. Take loosely defined priorities or emerging issues, determine what needs to happen, identify the right owners and decision-makers, establish a plan, and drive the work to a conclusion.
  • Lead high-priority special initiatives. Take ownership of ambiguous problems or opportunities that matter to the CEO but do not sit cleanly within one organization. Determine the objective, build the plan, assemble stakeholders, drive decisions, and carry through to execution.
  • Drive senior stakeholders. Coordinate leaders across the company without relying on positional authority, resolve gaps between teams, surface disagreements early, and maintain momentum on cross-functional issues.
  • Own executive preparation. Ensure meetings, reviews, and engagements have clear objectives, strong materials, right participants, surfaced decisions and risks, and enough prep time for senior leadership.
  • Own significant CEO travel and external engagements end-to-end. Coordinate objectives, stakeholders, scheduling, preparation, materials, logistics, and follow-through for major trips.
  • Run executive reviews, offsites, and special cadences. Establish timelines and outputs, coordinate contributors, maintain quality, capture decisions, and ensure actions are closed.
  • Serve as a trusted filter and quality bar. Exercise judgment on what requires senior leadership attention and what can be resolved elsewhere.
  • Maintain organizational follow-through. Ensure commitments translate into clear owners, actions, and outcomes.
  • Connect dots across the company. Bring together people and information to address cross-cutting issues.
  • Continuously improve how the team operates. Redesign systems to reduce friction and recurring failure modes.

Qualifications

  • Typically 8+ years of progressively increasing responsibility in roles requiring exceptional ownership, judgment, and execution.
  • Demonstrated success taking ambiguous, high-stakes problems from a loosely defined starting point through successful execution with limited oversight.
  • Exceptional executive judgment and a strong instinct for quality.
  • Ability to rapidly understand unfamiliar business problems and develop practical paths forward.
  • Strong executive presence and credibility with senior leaders.
  • Ability to lead through influence across complex cross-functional organizations.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication; synthesize complex information into concise executive materials.
  • Direct people-management experience with hiring, developing, and holding teams accountable.
  • Track record of building scalable systems and operating mechanisms.
  • Extremely high ownership and follow-through; high tempo and travel readiness.
  • Ability to maintain discretion with highly sensitive information and obtain/maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
  • Eligible for reference checks.

Skills

Required:Owner as operatorExecutive communicationCross-functional leadershipProject/program management

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees).
  • Top-tier benefits information available via Explore Our Benefits.
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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