Senior Technical Publications 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. BOUT THE TEAM Anduril’s Mission Success team is a cross‑functional group that partners with every business line and supports all products that Anduril builds. Our responsibilities include product operations, training and adoption, and user documentation. We are seeking an experienced senior technical writer or manager to lead high‑profile and demanding programs for our government customers. We believe that the quality of our documentation should reflect the quality of products, which are world‑class. ABOUT THE JOB As a Technical Publications Manager, your mission is to partner with our numerous product and operations teams to deliver accurate, updated, and easy‑to‑understand documentation on how to use Anduril products. You will manage, organize and dispatch work to our staff of technical writers in order to meet our mission and program delivery requirements. In this role, you will work closely with engineers, operations, and various subject matter experts to understand our products, identify user workflows, and use documentation to close the gap. The technical documentation manager will play a key role in cultivating our team members’ professional development, hitting our delivery targets, and ensuring quality across our written artifacts. With Anduril’s focus on defense and national security, user documentation plays a critical role in ensuring front‑line operators know how to leverage the “arsenal of democracy.” Your mission is to make the process of learning how to operate systems as easy and seamless as possible, with exceptionally written and presented artifacts. You will ensure that stakeholders are engaged at the right time, and you will manage our writing staff’s daily tasks to ensure that we are delivering finished user‑facing documents that meet our standards and customer requirements. Finally, you will provide status and performance metrics to the head of technical documentation to ensure that contract deliverables are accurate, on‑time, and in the right format. Written content artifacts under this charter may include technical manuals, operational manuals, maintenance manuals, procedures, checklists, templates, user guides, troubleshooting guides, and release notes. You will assist the head of technical documentation to partner with account, product, and engineering teams across all phases of product development to ensure users have the right documentation available. Another critical aspect of this role is to facilitate the transition to infrastructure and tooling needed for creating and maintaining our documentation content at scale. In this role, you will coordinate efforts to define requirements, assign testing and discovery tasks to team members, and develop training to scale this function across other teams. WHAT YOU’LL DO Generate, review, and edit documentation that is user‑focused. Work with engineering and operations to deliver task, conditions, standard‑centric documentation. Contribute to Anduril’s technical writing toolkit—working on everything from style guides to the documentation lifecycle and review process, and relevant software tool procurement through definition requirements for things like authoring and publishing tools. Evaluate and prioritize tasks required to successfully support product documentation efforts and keep them on track. Help drive the best decision for the company by using a data‑driven approach and execute input from leadership and stakeholders to deliver results. You should be prepared to fill gaps that represent risks to the documentation roadmap. Communicate and help manage expectations. Ensure risks are noted with adequate time, mitigations are identified, and resources are allocated. Help build a culture of technical documentation by creating process and training for others to contribute content. Refine our product maturity framework so that documentation is a meaningful step towards productization of new systems. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS 5+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation. Experience reading and interpreting engineering documentation. Experience building content in a variety of content authoring tools including word editors and specialized authoring software (e.g. RapidAuthor, Arbortext). Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, with emphasis on technical subjects. Must thrive with autonomy and responsibility, managing competing priorities and tight deadlines. Impeccable project‑management skills. Passion for excellent documentation and user experience. Must be eligible for Secret and higher security clearance (US). PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Experience writing technical user‑facing documentation. Previous experience creating technical documentation in Aerospace and Defense (for DoD), S1000D, or other applicable MIL‑STDs. Military exposure and experience, particularly with military technical documentation writing and formatting standards, guidelines, and verbiage. Experience leading and managing teams on fast‑paced, complex projects with multiple stakeholders.

SALARY RANGE $146,000 – $194,000 USD

BENEFITS Health Care: comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost in US roles; full cost coverage for UK & AUS roles; annual contribution toward private health insurance for IE roles. Life and disability insurance for all employees. Generous PTO plans with a holiday hiatus in December; caregiver & wellness leave available. Family planning and parenting support, including coverage for fertility treatments, adoption, and gestational carriers, and resources to support planning to parenting. Mental health resources: free mental health resources 24/7, including therapy and life coaching; additional work‑life services such as legal and financial support. Professional development: annual reimbursement. Commuter benefits: company‑funded commuter benefits based on region. Relocation assistance: available depending on role eligibility. Retirement savings: US roles—Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after‑tax options; UK & IE roles—pension plan with employer match; AUS roles—superannuation plan. #J-18808-Ljbffr Slope