Business Operations Associate

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.

Responsibilities

: Improving Anduril’s Operations: Operations Associates work across & within every division and functional organization to improve the processes that define & support Anduril’s growth. Operations Associates build out data-capture and analytics-reporting muscles to drive positive change over the long term. Executing Special Projects: Operations Associates are frequently pulled into high-priority initiatives impacting many Anduril teams that must be solved, but do not fall neatly into the purview of an existing person’s job description.

They are some of the first individuals to get tapped when a messy problem needs solving. Much of the time, both of these go hand-in-hand.

), you will often be embedded in the business, working cross-functionally with leaders and other stakeholders to solve its messiest problems, capture data, problem-solve by acting upon that data, and enable others to do the same.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Own operational projects end-to-end, from definition, to solutioning, to implementation. You will be handed ambiguous problems with little prescription on how to solve them. If this does not excite you, this is not the role for you.

Anduril is hardware business, and tracking hardware is messy. Our operations teams work on problems that sit at the intersection of people, hardware and software systems including: Inventory management systems Staffing & recruiting operations Asset-tracking in the field Manufacturing systems capturing data on quality-issues on the production floor. Work on strategic problems, providing structure to ambiguity and helping shepherd cross-functional groups of stakeholders towards decisions on strategic issues.

The role will ask you to couple first principles thinking with creative and iterative analysis to fully detail the impacts of potential decisions. ) function, and leverage data from them to execute scrappy analyses on short timelines, all the while equipping functional teams with insights and tools to measure and improve their processes. Project manage across large groups of stakeholders including, leading large meetings, managing large Slack channels, and wrangling stakeholders towards a solution.

This role requires the ability to translate across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, Engineering, HR, Recruiting, Growth, Deployments, and more.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

You have 1+ years of experience in a management consulting, investment banking, internal strategy & operations, or business analyst role. You lean into acknowledging your weaknesses and take the idea of feedback and growth seriously. You get energy from being a thought partner for others and it excites you to spend time translating operational problems into data problems, and to then going and executing on them.

You are self-driven and relentlessly proactive.