VP, GM- Space Special Projects

About the role

Anduril is hiring a VP & General Manager to lead our Space, Special Programs business line. This is both an operating and building role: you will own your business line end-to-end - P&L, product, people, and customer - with the speed and ownership of a founder and the credibility of a defense insider. You will be measured on your ability to build a new business inside Space from the ground up, not to maintain an established one. You will report to the Anduril Frontier Systems Senior Vice President, and partner closely with peer GMs, engineering, program management, finance, recruiting, and corporate operations. You will translate growth signals into capacity, capability, and customer outcomes for your business line while contributing to the broader strategy of the Space business line. The Anduril GM is both an operator and a builder - high ownership, low ego, high emotional intelligence, and the horsepower to run multiple large priorities in parallel. You thrive in ambiguity, move from quick-turn operational fire-fighting to long-range strategy without losing momentum, and bring cross-institutional pattern recognition from government, primes, startups, or consulting. You optimize for creating and scaling new businesses, not maintaining established ones.

Responsibilities

• Strategic & Commercial Leadership
• Set long-range strategy for your business line in alignment with the Space business line's goals
• Lead growth - capture, customer engagement, pricing, executive relationships, and expansion into adjacent mission areas
• Own customer strategy for your business line and strengthen relationships with key government customers, primes, and industry partners
• Monitor market conditions and competitor activity; adjust strategy and resource allocation accordingly
• Leverage strategic partnerships and teammates for building out new products to satisfy customer requirements in new and challenging mission areas
• Support M&A evaluation and integration as it relates to your business line
• P&L Ownership & Financial Stewardship
• Own the full P&L for your business line, including revenue, contribution profit, working capital, and investment targets
• Make capex and investment recommendations - manufacturing, test infrastructure, classified spaces, tooling
• Manage the operating plan in partnership with FP&A and the Space business line leader; drive content for Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews
• Operational Excellence & Execution
• Design and run the business rhythm for your business line: OKRs, annual planning, headcount forecasting, governance, all-hands
• Translate growth signals into operational capacity - staffing, facilities, test ranges, classified infrastructure, production
• Drive continuous improvement across safety, quality, delivery, and productivity
• Ensure full compliance with corporate policies and applicable regulatory and industry standards
• Technical & Product Leadership
• Lead technical execution from design through fabrication, test, and productization
• Lead software engineering execution across the business line - architecture, autonomy/AI, data, and software-defined capabilities that differentiate the product
• Own the product documentation package required for build and production transition
• Make credible technical tradeoffs and partner with engineering on requirements, sub-system trades, and risk management
• Contribute technical inputs to proposals, including engineering execution plans
• Establish centers of excellence across standards, tooling, and engineering practice within your business line
• Team & Organizational Development
• Hire, mentor, and inspire a high-performing leadership team across engineering, program, and operational disciplines
• Lead workforce planning, succession, and long-term capability roadmaps for the business line
• Champion Anduril's values and lead the organization through complex change as the business line scales
• Cross-Functional Partnership & Communications
• Serve as a trusted partner to the Space business line leader and to peer GMs across the division
• Lead strategy sessions for the business line - business reviews, leadership offsites, all-hands
• Enable internal and external narrative for the business line in partnership with Communications and t

Benefits

Additional Information

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.

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