Deployment & Training Manager, Commercial

Deployment & Training Manager, Commercial Irvine, 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 Team Anduril's Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, we provide mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of UAS threats. Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains our Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide. About the Job As a Deployment and Training Lead on the Air Defense team, you are responsible for delivering, training, and sustaining a capability that meets our customers' mission requirements and exceeds their expectations. You own the full lifecycle of a deployment — from planning and installation through new equipment training, sustainment, and continuous improvement. You fulfill this responsibility through rigorous operational execution, detail orientation, proactive communication, deep mission understanding, and hard-won product expertise. You feel ownership over the health and performance of all assets and technologies deployed to your customers and users, and ensure that the system delivers when they need it most. You are equally invested in ensuring that end users are trained, confident, and proficient in employing the capability. You represent Anduril to our customers, building their confidence and trust through your professionalism and commitment to excellence. You also represent our customers back to Anduril, communicating user feedback and lessons learned to continuously improve our product and our team in response to evolving mission needs. Above all, you set the standard for what good looks like for your deployment, and you rally your Anduril teammates to meet that standard every single day. In this role, you will manage deployments and the associated training enterprise for Anduril's Air Defense products across a region, ensuring mission readiness in support of national security infrastructure. Collaborating closely with the Program Manager and Program Operations Manager, you will play a crucial role in developing long-term deployment, training, and sustainment operations aligned with customer priorities. As a key team member, you will engage across multiple business lines and facilitate customer interactions, making flexibility, humility, and a collaborative mindset essential qualities for success. What You'll Do Deployment planning and execution: We execute hundreds of deployment events each year, including site installations, test and evaluation exercises, demonstrations, and training and maintenance visits. You will orchestrate these events, leading a cross-functional team that spans hardware supply, logistics, engineering, and more to do whatever it takes to achieve mission success for Anduril and our customers. Meticulous, resourceful, and detail-oriented, you will manage every step of the deployment process, from site survey to testing, pack-out, installation, training, and sustainment. No job is too small. You consistently demonstrate extraordinary judgment, grit, and composure in high-pressure situations. You anticipate every contingency, build lightweight processes, soberly assess and mitigate risk, and deliberately learn from your experiences to continuously improve. New Equipment Training (NET) delivery: You own the NET mission for your deployments. You resource, develop and deliver the initial fielding training that takes customers from zero to operational proficiency on the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems — building programs of instruction, training schedules, and hands-on individual and collective events tailored to each customer's mission and skill baseline. You ensure every customer that receives our capability is ready to employ it from day one. Sustainment training and readiness: Beyond initial fielding, you build and run the recurring sustainment training that keeps proficiency high as personnel rotate, threats evolve, and product capabilities advance. You establish training gates, proficiency standards, and refresh cycles; you plan and resource realistic sustainment events; and you measure your success by the enduring operational readiness of the forces you support. Relationship management: Build trust with customers, industry partners, users, and Anduril teammates through effective communication, positive attitude, and follow-through. With careful listening and observation, you internalize your counterpart's priorities and requirements. With empathy and responsiveness, you quickly build rapport, trust, and confidence in our capability. You develop relationships across the organization and communicate honestly and directly. You are committed to giving and receiving feedback well. Your partners always know what you expect from them, and know exactly what to expect from you. Mission expertise: Develop a deep knowledge of your customer's mission requirements, including the nature of the threats they face, regulatory challenges, resource constraints, rules of engagement, and more. You will become a subject matter expert and the voice of the customer, capable of effectively communicating requirements and CONOPS to Anduril engineers so they can continue to enhance our capability to meet evolving mission needs. You serve as the counter unmanned systems (cUAS) subject matter expert for your customers, helping them resource realistic training and manage all hardware and software configurations for cUAS-peculiar equipment. You are deeply motivated to shape the future of air defense. Product expertise: Develop a thorough understanding of the capabilities and limitations of Anduril's Family of Systems. You are innately curious about the technology underpinning our capability, and are not satisfied with a superficial understanding of how and why it works. You are constantly educating yourself about the strengths and weaknesses of different sensor modalities, the challenges of sensor fusion, power and networking requirements, and more. You will become an opinionated power user who can reliably forecast how our capability will perform against a broad range of threat profiles, environmental conditions, and mission constraints. Required Qualifications Advanced degree or 5+ years of experience in a technical field, preferably in the defense, national security, or aerospace domain Proven experience planning and delivering technical training programs, including new equipment training (NET) and sustainment training Highly organized creative problem-solver with proven project management skills Experienced in the creation and upkeep of documentation for new or developing processes, including training curricula and programs of instruction Proven experience leading tech-enabled teams of peers while building a culture of influence through relationships Deep interest in national security issues and defense technologies, with a commitment to lifelong learning Experience translating technical concepts into operational requirements, performance specifications, and training materials Ownership mentality with strong initiative in managing your own work in potentially remote environments Comfort communicating complex concepts simply across various methods of communication and tools Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize tasks effectively Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance; Top Secret preferred Willing to travel up to 50% of the time, primarily regional travel across assigned deployment and training sites Preferred Qualifications Operational experience delivering defense technology solutions to USG customers Prior military experience, particularly in Air Defense, Fires, or related operational roles Project Management Professional Certification Experience designing Train-the-Trainer or instructor-certification programs that build customer self-sufficiency Active U.S. Top Secret security clearance US Salary Range $146,000 - $194,000 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: 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 . As set forth in Anduril Industries’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law. 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