Portfolio Operations Associate

Portfolio Operations Associate

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a real-time, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

About The Team

We are building the future of situational awareness. Our Sentry platform integrates robotics, autonomy, hardware, and software to deliver mission-critical capabilities in defense and security, with an expanding footprint into commercial markets. With a rapidly growing fleet and new product variants in development, we partner across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, operations, business development, and more to deliver cutting-edge systems at scale.

About The Job

The Sentry team is seeking a detail-oriented and analytical Portfolio Operations Associate to join our dynamic core operating team. In this role, you will be a key player in ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of the Sentry product portfolio. You will serve as a critical conduit, bridging the gap between product development, engineering, manufacturing, and deployment, and our core operations functions. Your work will involve analyzing product performance, streamlining processes, and providing data-driven insights to support strategic decision-making.

What You'll Do

Development & Delivery Orchestration: Partner with Product, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Deployment teams to support the streamlining of how Sentry products are planned, built, sold, and delivered. Assist in driving alignment across these key functions

Portfolio Management Assistance: Support efforts to reduce variant sprawl by assisting with discipline around Bill of Materials (BOM) planning, SKU structures, naming conventions, and release communications to ensure consistency across teams

Operational Process Support: Assist in defining and documenting repeatable processes for Sentry product deployments, upgrades, and release readiness, contributing to the move from ad hoc execution to scalable practices

Business System Optimization: Support the adoption and effective utilization of business systems like Jira and Confluence to improve planning, tracking, and execution across the Sentry product lifecycle

Stakeholder Alignment Support: Identify operational pain points and assist in proposing solutions to leadership, contributing to stakeholder alignment for implementation

Documentation & Knowledge Management: Contribute to architecting and maintaining documentation systems that enable internal users (Engineering, Business Development, Operations, etc.) to quickly access Sentry product information

Sales & Marketing Enablement Support: Collaborate with Product Marketing and Proposal teams to gather product information that helps showcase Sentry's value and capabilities

Operational Project Support: Assist in end-to-end operational initiatives from definition through implementation, requiring structured approaches to solve problems

Cross-Functional Process Improvement: Work across Anduril's functions (Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, Engineering, etc.) to help establish processes that enable Sentry to scale while ensuring programs operate at peak efficiency

Operational Analytics: Execute analyses on short timelines and contribute to building more scalable solutions for the Sentry product portfolio

Required Qualifications

You have 1+ years of experience in management consulting. internal strategy & operations, or business analyst role. Experience operating in a high-growth technology company, or starting a venture, are heavily considered

You get energy from being a thought partner for others - it excites you to spend time translating operational problems into data problems, and to then going and executing on them

You're both high ownership and low ego, approaching everything with strong outcome orientation and high humility

You are self-driven and relentlessly proactive. You don't need someone to tell you to "move". You just move. We'd rather have to tell you to slow down than to speed up

You are comfortable communicating broadly and having a lot of eyes on your work. This role can at-times require comms to large groups and senior leadership. This should excite you!

You have an appetite to build clear frameworks to structure problems

Aptitude for rapid learning and assimilating new information to swiftly become proficient in unfamiliar subject areas and technologies

You have strong analytical aptitude. You intuitively think about problems in terms of numbers and data-models, and you are able to quickly execute analyses in Excel or SQL

Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities