About the role
<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><h2>
About
the role</h2> <p>The Director, Production Analytics owns Production Analytics globally: every site, every product line, and every production function across Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain, Planning, and Warehousing / Material Management. The ambition is not better dashboards. It is that a division leader can tell whether they will hit rate before they miss it, and that when we argue about where to invest, the argument is settled by data rather than by whoever presents best.</p> <h3>ABOUT THE JOB</h3> <p>This is a player-coach role. You will lead the hardest analytical problems yourself, on the programs that matter most to the company, and build a team that can run several more in parallel. You will be judged on what you accomplish, not on how you operate: whether a program hit rate that would otherwise have slipped, whether a constraint got cleared because we saw it coming, whether a number leadership used to make a real decision came from this team.<br>We weigh approach over domain familiarity. The strongest analytics leaders we have are exceptional at how they attack a problem, even where they arrived without the functional background. Manufacturing depth is useful and listed below as preferred, but it does not substitute for analytical method, judgment about what matters, and the ability to drive a result through an organization.</p> <h2>
What you'll do</h2> <ul> <li>Apply analytics to production’s biggest problems. Hold an evidence-backed view of what is worth the company's attention and in what order, rather than working a request list. Take the hardest two or three problems in Anduril's flagship programs and build analytics into them end to end, hands-on.</li> <li>Make the various business units in Anduril decide earlier. Shift production reporting from retrospective to leading: risk surfaced two months before the gate, not status recited on the day of it. Adoption is the deliverable. A correct dashboard nobody opens has failed.</li> <li>Turn what worked into the enterprise standard. Generalize proven capabilities into supported products, standardize the definitions the work proved out, and consolidate the duplicated reporting they replace. A standard that survives contact with a program running at rate is defensible. One written in a document is not.</li> <li>Answer what it takes to scale. Own the analytical side of a ramp from low rate to high rate, and keep a current, evidenced view of the constraints that actually bind as the company grows.</li> <li>Build
the team and the foundation. Lead the consolidated analytics organization and the managers within it. Build on and in the production process/team rather than beside them. Hold the line that the various business units own master data quality while the analytics team builds the tooling that makes defects visible and cheap to fix.</li> <li>Your work should produce numbers the business can trust. Where a metric is known to be wrong, it is a defect with an owner and a date, not a caveat on a slide. Fix the data before building on top of it.</li> </ul> <h2>Required
qualifications</h2> <ul> <li>10+ years in analytics, data, or quantitative operations, including 5+ years leading analytics or data teams, and experience managing managers or clear readiness to do so.</li> <li>A rigorous, teachable approach to ambiguous problems. You can describe how you decide what to work on, how you structure an analysis, how you know when you're wrong, and how you install that method in a team.</li> <li>Genuinely hands-on. Strong SQL and a modern data stack, able to get into a dataset personally, find the answer, and defend the method. This role does not succeed as pure management.</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to identify the highest-value problem in a messy operational environment and solve it analytically.</li> <li>A track record you can point at: specific operational outcomes your work caused, with the numbers, the program, and the skeptics named.</li> <li>Experience shipping analytics as supported products with real users, and retiring what they replace.</li> <li>Able to influence business unit and functional leadership peer-to-peer without authority, and to work credibly with a program team that starts out unconvinced.</li> <li>Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance. U.S. person status required per ITAR/EAR.</li> </ul> <h2>Preferred
qualifications</h2> <ul> <li>Operational depth in manufacturing, supply chain, or planning, including fluency with routings, work orders, MRP exceptions, and cycle counts.</li> <li>Analytical ownership of a production ramp from low rate to high rate.</li> <li>Experience building an analytics function from a scattered starting point, consolidating people, standards, and tooling that previously sat under separate owners.</li> <li>Databricks and Palantir Foundry, dimensional modeling and semantic or ontology layers.</li> <li>High-rate or high-mix manufacturing, defense production, or another environment scaling volume fast.</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><span data-contrast="auto">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:</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3 class="detailElios"><strong>
Benefits</strong></h3> <p><span data-contrast="auto">At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive
benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.&nbsp;</span><em><span data-contrast="auto">For more information, <a href="https://www.anduril.com/careers">Explore Our
Benefits</a>.</span></em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="RichText column1"> <h3 class="detailElios"><strong>Protecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams</strong></h3> <p class="detailElios">Anduril is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent acquisition process and the security of our candidates. We've observed a rise in sophisticated phishing and fraudulent schemes where individuals impersonate Anduril representatives, luring job seekers with false interviews or job offers. These scammers often attempt to extract payment or sensitive personal information.</p> </div> <div class="RichText column2"> <p class="detailElios">To ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence, please keep the following critical points in mind:</p> <ul> <li> <p class="detailElios"><strong>No Financial Requests:&nbsp;</strong>Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates.</p> </li> <li><strong>Please always verify communications:</strong> <ul> <li>Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters, it will <em>only</em> come from an <code>@anduril.com</code> address.</li> <li>Via Agency Partner: If contacted by a recruiting agency for an Anduril role, their email will clearly identify their agency. If you suspect any suspicious activity, please verify the agency's authenticity by reaching out to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.&nbsp;</li> </ul> </li> <li> <p class="detailElios"><strong>Exercise Caution with Unsolicited Outreach:</strong>&nbsp;If you receive any communication that appears suspicious, contains grammatical errors, or makes unusual requests, do not engage. Always confirm the sender's email domain is @anduril.com before providing any personal information or clicking on links.</p> </li> <li> <p class="detailElios"><strong>What to Do If You Suspect Fraud:</strong>&nbsp;Should you encounter any questionable or fraudulent outreach claiming to be from Anduril, please report it immediately to&nbsp;<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>. Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.</p> </li> </ul> </div> <h3>&nbsp;</h3> <h3><strong>Data Privacy</strong></h3> <p><span data-contrast="auto">To view Anduril's candidate data privacy policy, please visit </span><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink"><a href="https://anduril.com/applicant-privacy-notice/">https://anduril.com/applicant-privacy-notice/</a></span></span><span data-contrast="auto">.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}">By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening and assessing potential risks as part of your application process. This third-party service provider provides risk-intelligence services that may include analysis of sanctions and watchlists, adverse media, public-record information, and other lawful open-source or commercial data sources. This third-party service provider does not act as a consumer reporting agency. Use of this provider helps to ensure compliance with applicable laws and protect technology, intellectual property, and organizational security.</span></p></div>
About Anduril
Anduril Industries designs and supplies autonomous defense systems and integrated software for security and military applications. The company develops an AI-driven command-and-control platform that links sensors, unmanned vehicles across air, land, and sea, and related hardware into a cohesive operational network. Its portfolio covers unmanned aerial vehicles, counter-drone technology, undersea autonomous vehicles, and autonomous ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) platforms. Anduril also builds mission support software that helps users fuse sensor data and manage operations in real time. The company serves defense, national security, and government clients with technology solutions that emphasize autonomous operation and data integration.
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Job details
Location
Costa Mesa, CA
Funding
Total raised
$6.5B
Last stage
Series G
Investors
Founders
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
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A meeting lands on your calendar
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