Director, CEO Office

Job description

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 JOB We are looking for an exceptional operator to lead day-to-day execution across the CEO’s highest-priority work. This is a senior operating leadership role for someone who can take ambiguous, high-stakes priorities and drive them from inception through execution with limited direction. You will build and lead a high-performing team and own the systems, preparation, coordination, and follow-through that allow the CEO and Chief of Staff to operate at maximum leverage. You will work across Anduril’s most senior leaders, functional teams, customers, government stakeholders, and external partners. The defining characteristic of the role is end-to-end ownership. You understand what outcome is needed, determine the path to get there, mobilize the right people, maintain a high quality bar, anticipate problems before they arise, and drive the work through completion. The strongest person in this role will not wait for work to be fully defined. You will identify what needs to happen, impose structure on ambiguous situations, anticipate issues before they become urgent, and independently drive work forward. You will know when to pull in the Chief of Staff or CEO and, equally importantly, when not to. You will build leverage through a team, not by becoming the single point through which every task must flow. That means developing people, establishing clear ownership, and creating systems that allow the function to absorb increasing scope. The strongest candidates combine exceptional judgment, high intellectual horsepower, relentless follow-through, and a very high operating tempo. They are comfortable moving between executive-level issues and detailed execution, can rapidly understand unfamiliar business problems, and know how to turn loosely defined priorities into concrete outcomes. Candidates who have operated alongside senior executives or principals in exceptionally demanding environments, including the Executive Branch, senior government leadership, high-growth technology companies, or other high-stakes operating environments, are strongly encouraged to apply. WHAT YOU’LL DO • Run the operating rhythm. Own the cadences, processes, forward planning, prioritization, and information flows that keep the team ahead of what is coming rather than reacting to it. • Build and lead a high-performing team. Set a high bar, establish clear ownership/priorities/timelines, develop people, and build an organization capable of absorbing increasing scope under the Chief of Staff. • Turn CEO priorities into executable work. Take loosely defined priorities or emerging issues, determine what needs to happen, identify the right owners and decision-makers, establish a plan, and drive the work to a conclusion. • Lead high-priority special initiatives. Take ownership of ambiguous problems or opportunities that matter to the CEO but do not sit cleanly within one organization. Determine the objective, build the plan, assemble the right internal and external stakeholders, drive decisions, and carry the effort through execution. • Drive senior stakeholders. Coordinate leaders across the company without relying on positional authority, resolve gaps between teams, surface disagreements early, and maintain momentum on issues that span organizational boundaries. • Own executive preparation. Ensure important meetings, reviews, and engagements have clear objectives, strong materials, the right participants, surfaced decisions and risks, and sufficient preparation time for senior leadership. • Own significant CEO travel and external engagements end-to-end. Through the team, coordinate objectives, stakeholders, sche