Strategy & Operations Associate, Production

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

ABOUT THE TEAM

As a Strategy & Operations Associate in our Production organization, you will be joining the new home for Special Projects in one of Anduril’s largest, fastest-growing organizations.

Production at Anduril is responsible for the end to end processes of procuring, manufacturing, and delivering hardware to our customers. The Production BizOps team is dedicated to staffing heavy-hitters against the highest-priority problems in the organization to help deliver hardware On-time, with Quality, at Cost.

You will be embedded in the operations of the business - working across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Planning, and teams outside Production like Finance, Growth, HR, etc. - spanning anywhere from strategic projects with exposure to leadership down to scrappy operational improvement in the most complex processes in Production.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own operational projects end-to-end, from Definition, Solution, to Implementation.
• Work on operational problems involving the intersection of hardware and software systems.
• Work on strategic problems, providing structure to ambiguity and helping shepherd cross-functional groups of stakeholders towards decisions on strategic issues - coupling first principles thinking and the ability to rapidly and creatively conduct research (internally and externally) to fully and exhaustively detail the implications and tradeoffs of various decisions without losing sight of the simple “so what”
• Work deeply within data and systems, becoming intimately familiar with how our business systems (ERP, MRP, HRIS, etc.) function, and how to leverage data from them to create insights and analytics (leveraging tools like Excel, Palantir Foundry, etc.), equipping functional teams with these insights and tools to measure and improve their processes
• Execute scrappy analyses on short-timelines to get answers quickly, while also owning more scalable solutions that will make Anduril successful in the long term
• Project manage across many stakeholders.
• Work across functions and learn Anduril’s business top-to-bottom.

**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS**

• You have 2+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, internal operations, a business analyst role - or some other experience where you just had to figure out how to get stuff done
• You are self-driven and relentlessly proactive.
• You don’t wait on others to solve problems.
• You don’t have to be told what to do or how to do it - you’re the first one to bring forward solutions and ideas, and then receptively take feedback on them and iterate with the team.
• You have an appetite to build clear frameworks to structure problems.
• You lean into acknowledging your weaknesses and take the idea of feedback and growth seriously
• 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 enjoy working at a place where no one minds if you leave early one day to go to an appointment or run an errand, but you also don’t mind responding to Slacks in the evening while you’re watching Netflix.
• You have an appetite to build clear frameworks to structure problems.
• You have strong analytical aptitude.
• You are comfortable communicating broadly and having a lot of eyes on your work.
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export-controlled data.

US Salary Range

$120,000—$185,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only.

Anduril is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.