Product Operations Manager

Product Operations Manager

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 realtime, 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

The Mission Success Team plays a critical role in orchestrating the seamless deployment and operation of our assets across sea, air, and ground. Tasked with the vital mission of maintaining the health of these deployed systems, we collaborate closely with other specialized teams to reach this objective even in the most austere and signal-denied environments. The ability to communicate with these systems is critical to our success. This commitment to maintaining constant connectivity underpins the strategic effectiveness of our operations. Real-time data exchange and command-and-control capabilities enable our operational continuity and the strategic advantage we maintain across all domains.

About The Role

As a part of product support operations on the Altius team, your mission is to do whatever it takes to maintain the health of our deployed Altius technology. You will be responsible for identifying, triaging, escalating, and managing resolution of all incidents across our deployed fleet of systems. You should have an aptitude for debugging and an appetite for real-time response, rapid resolution, and root-causing complex issues on electromechanical systems. If you are passionate about ground-breaking technology, contributing to the national security mission, interacting alongside professionals that span a wide-range of disciplines, and providing best-in-class product operations oversight, Anduril is interested in speaking with you.

What You'll Do

Lead Anduril's Product Operations team to sustain Anduril's Counter Intrusion deployments by combining an understanding of our customers' missions with familiarity of our products and integrations.

Sustain Anduril's deployments by combining an understanding of our customers' missions with familiarity of our products and integrations.

Triage, diagnose and root cause product incidents, and driving postmortem actions including providing status visibility through resolution.

Consistently assess and ratchet up the quality of the fleet's observability and telemetry in partnership with product teams.

Develop fleet health reporting spanning Anduril's Air Defense technology stack, continuously assessing deviations from the baseline.

Interface with internal operations and product teams to identify and solve system or product reliability issues.

Support Anduril's global customers through proactive communications and detail-oriented execution.

Propose process and product improvements based on customer feedback and available metrics/analytics.

Guide and mentor a team; setting goals, providing direction, and iterating on process and standards.

Required Qualifications

Demonstrated experience as a self-starter, able to find and resolve issues on your own.

Strong aptitude for problem solving in unstructured situations at the interface of hardware, software, and networking. Ability to drive challenging and vague technical problems to clarity and resolution.

Proven ability to master a technical system and support it in production operational environments. Must demonstrate an innate drive to be self-sufficient across the depth and breadth of a technical system.

Daily practice of excellence and rigor - you execute the 100th rep of a process with the same focus and care as the first five reps.

Confident with navigating ambiguity and crafting new ways of doing things.

Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills.

Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Guide and mentor a team; setting goals, providing direction, and iterating on process and standards.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with observability tooling such as DataDog, Grafana, and Victor Ops; exposure to software development tooling such as Git and Jira.

Experience with on-call support operations and working in limited risk tolerance production environments.

Government agency experience preferred.

Willingness to work non-standard hours and weekends (flexible 8-hour morning shift between 6am-3pm).

3+ years of customer/technical support experience with a focus on final-tier customer concern support.

US salary range: $91,800 - $137,700 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

• Platinum Healthcare Benefits: For U.S. roles, we offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
• Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance 100% covered by Anduril, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
• Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a holiday hiatus in December, and highly competitive PTO plans.
• 16 weeks of paid Caregiver & Wellness Leave to care for a family member, bond with your baby, or tend to your own medical condition.
• Family Planning & Parenting Support: Fertility (eg, IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carrier coverage with additional benefits and resources to provide support from planning to parenting.
• Mental Health Resources: We provide free mental health resources 24/7 including therapy, life coaching, and more. Additional work-life services, such as free legal and financial support, available to you as well.
• A professional development stipend is available to all Andurilians.
• Daily Meals and Provisions: For many of our offices this means breakfast, lunch and fully stocked micro-kitchens.
• Company-funded commuter benefits available based on your region.
• Relocation assistance (depending on role eligibility).
• 401(k) retirement savings plan - both a traditional and Roth 401(k). (US roles only)

The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.

Anduril is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. The Anduril team is made up of incredibly talented and unique individuals, who together are disrupting industry norms by creating new paths towards the future of defense technology. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, Veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law, including those with a criminal history, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the CA Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. We actively encourage members of recognized minorities, women, Veterans, and those with disabilities to apply, and we work to create a welcoming and supportive environment for all applicants throughout the interview process. If you are someone passionate about working on problems that have a real-world impact, we'd love to hear from you!