Senior Trainer

Senior Trainer

Costa Mesa, California, United States

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 Role

As a Senior Trainer, you will lead company-wide efforts to build user training for a wide spectrum of Anduril products. In particular, your team is responsible for the creation, management, and delivery of world-class, technical training instruction, enabled through an understanding of our products and our customers' unique demands. Multi-functional work and proactive communication across internal teams will help you drive the end-to-end customer experience. If you are passionate about educating others on ground-breaking technology, contributing to the national security mission, interacting alongside professionals that span a wide-range of disciplines, and providing best-in-class training support, Anduril is interested in speaking with you. We are a fast-growing company at the early stages of our growth, and you will be expected to immediately develop and own material and projects that will have a significant impact on the trajectory of our business lines and products. Anduril fosters a diverse, collaborative, culture with plenty of opportunities for ownership and professional growth.

What You'll Do

• Manage Anduril's training team and orchestrate delivery of training on Anduril products
  • Build repeatable systems and processes to partner with product teams and build training curriculum
  • Manage a team of trainers who lead classroom presentations and hands-on instruction at customer locations and Anduril test sites. Your team educates end users from military, government agency, and commercial backgrounds on the full breadth of Anduril's hardware and software offerings
• Create, shape, and manage training collateral for our product capabilities and technology
  • Design training curriculums across a variety of platforms, including presentations, hands-on practicals, computer-based training, and simulations
  • Ensure instruction and training collateral remain current and updated for new features and functionality
• Collaborate across nearly every Anduril team
  • Work across a wide range of Anduril teams, including product development, engineering, design, and operations to capture product updates and support training of end users
• Serve as the voice of our customers
  • Build a bridge between our end users and Anduril, capturing feedback, identifying pain points, and informing the development of new product features

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of work experience related to building, delivering and overseeing training for complex products.
• Training and training management background with expertise in planning, developing, and delivering training.
• This position is based in Costa Mesa, CA and requires being onsite - remote work not considered.
• Ability to travel up to 50%, to include travel to Hazard Zones.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing training POIs and major training events for military or Special Operations Forces.
• Experience explaining technical terminology and solutions to a non-technical audience is a plus.
• Ownership mentality, with strong initiative in managing your own work, and possibly that of others. You should have a natural bias to assume responsibility.
• Adaptive, creative communication style that fits a variety of audiences and works across a variety of mediums.
• Enthusiastic about transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.
• Ability to work in cross-functional environments and influence others with no hierarchical relationship.

US Salary Range

$113,000 - $149,000 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:

Benefits

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. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.

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