Deployment Lead, Strategic Defense

Anduril
Washington
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 166,000 - 220,000 annuallyFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Stakeholder management","Written and verbal communication","Issue resolution","Trust building","Risk awareness"]

Own end-to-end readiness and the day-to-day operating picture for a portfolio of deployment sites. Serve as the primary site liaison, leading surveys and readiness reviews, coordinating deployments, ground tests, live-fire exercises, and sustainment activities. Build integrated schedules, readiness gates, dependencies, risks, and issue-resolution plans across concurrent sites, while coordinating logistics, equipment readiness, and engineering/SRE support to ensure safe, time-critical execution in classified environments.

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Deployment Lead, Strategic Defense

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end readiness and the day-to-day operating picture for a portfolio of deployment sites. Serve as the primary site liaison, leading surveys and readiness reviews, coordinating deployments, ground tests, live-fire exercises, and sustainment activities. Build integrated schedules, readiness gates, dependencies, risks, and issue-resolution plans across concurrent sites, while coordinating logistics, equipment readiness, and engineering/SRE support to ensure safe, time-critical execution in classified environments.
Location: Washington
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Serve as the accountable program liaison for assigned sites, establishing trusted relationships with customer points of contact, operators, local support teams, and internal stakeholders.
  • •Lead site surveys and readiness reviews, translating power, cooling, rack space, network, access, security, shipping, travel, and staffing conditions into an owned action plan.
  • •Plan and coordinate deployments, ground tests, live-fire exercises, customer visits, training events, and sustainment activities, including after-action follow-through.
  • •Build and manage integrated schedules, readiness gates, dependencies, risks, decisions, and issue-resolution plans across concurrent sites and events.
  • •Coordinate purchase requests, purchase orders, shipping/receiving, material staging, and local logistics while maintaining ownership and traceability for site equipment.
Travel: High travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 166,000 - 220,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of experience in technical program management, field operations, deployment operations, systems integration, or a comparable role delivering complex hardware and software capabilities.
  • •Demonstrated ownership of multi-site or multi-event execution involving customers, engineering teams, logistics, access constraints, and time-critical dependencies.
  • •Working knowledge of integrated hardware, software, networking, and data-center or field-site infrastructure, with ability to understand technical architecture and surface execution risk.
  • •Experience building executable plans, schedules, readiness criteria, risk registers, decision logs, and clear status reporting in ambiguous environments.
  • •Currently possesses and can maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance and is eligible to obtain a Top Secret clearance.
Experience:5+ yearsDefenseDoDHardware/software integrationCommand-and-controlClassified environments
Skills:Stakeholder managementWritten and verbal communicationIssue resolutionTrust buildingRisk awareness
Certifications:PMPCAPM
Tech Stack:JiraConfluenceSmartsheetMicrosoft ProjectRMF

Eligibility

Security Clearance:SecretTop Secret

Company Brief

Anduril
Designs and builds advanced defense systems combining autonomous aircraft, sensors, and AI-driven software for military and national security applications, focused on modernizing battlefield capabilities and distributed sensing.
Industry: Defense Technology
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Costa Mesa, United States
Founded: 2017
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