Quality Applications Program Manager
Anduril Industries
- Seattle, WA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Serve as the “single threaded leader” for the Quality / Product Performance initiative
- Crafting a roadmap and ensuring that it is effectively decomposed for technical teams' backlog
- Communicating across stakeholders on your program's development and roadmap, as well as monitoring and reporting on program performance to understand if business outcomes are getting met
- Driving adoption and enablement through the use of change management tools, schedules, and user engagement (UAT, training, sandbox environment, piloting, etc).
- Bias for Action - they ask for forgiveness, not permission, and hate the idea of waiting around to be told what to do. They've never seen a wall you haven't wanted to run through!
- Outcome-Oriented - They determine what the business needs and work backwards from those outcomes, rather than working forwards from a particular system's capabilities
- Customer Focused - They display deep user empathy to boost engagement and build experiences that delight
- Dive Deep - They sweat the details and roll up their sleeves to uncover the root causes for systemic issues. They eat metrics for breakfast!
- Ownership - They care deeply not just about their program, but for all the business outcomes that their program supports, holding themselves accountable for everything it both does and fails to do
- Agility - They change directions easily and without regret, quickly adapting to shifting business priorities
- First Principles Thinking - They approach problems and develop solutions not based on what a vendor recommends or because it's how they did things at their last job, but from a deep appreciation of what is best for the enterprise
- 7+ years in Product or Program Management, dealing with both technical and non-technical teams
- Strong understanding of Manufacturing / Production and Quality processes and lifecycle
- Excellent written / verbal communication and project management skills
- Proven track record of being able to quickly acquire domain knowledge and build rapport with diverse set of stakeholders
- Ability to balance requirements across engineering, data, and business stakeholders
- Demonstrated success decomposing a problem into addressable component parts and arranging the correct sequencing
- Proven ability to “see around corners” by crafting a strategy for 12-18 months into the future
- Must be able to travel up to 33% of the time, as your stakeholders will be geographically dispersed
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
- Have expertise working with key Quality systems, including: Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS), Risk, Quality Management, AS9100 requirements, and Reliability
- Understanding of digital thread concepts and the ability to define their plans for quality and reliability tooling within the wider Anduril digital engineering environment.
- Familiarity with with quality management and planning digital tools.
- Familiarity with with reliability engineering and simulation digital tools.