Quality Applications Program Manager

Anduril Industries

  • Seattle, WA
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 9 days ago
The Business Systems team is responsible for building and improving the many business systems that enables Anduril to accomplish its mission. Anduril's supply chain, accounting, sales & growth, engineering, field maintenance, quality, manufacturing, and many more teams rely on the technology built by us. We work across the company to ensure we have the tools and capabilities necessary for mission success.As the Quality Applications Program Manager, you will be responsible for delivering solutions that enable the performance of Anduril's many hardware products. To accomplish this, you will partner with multiple teams and systems that are responsible for the discovery, development, and delivery of quality performance. These teams include Quality Engineering, Reliability, Configuration Management, Production/Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Test & Evaluation, and more. You will have to develop a detailed understanding of each team's challenges and requirements to understand what solutions can best address their needs. You will architect and develop solutions in partnership with technical teams and drive adoption & enable best practices for scale and efficiency. Because these teams have different use cases and timelines, you must be an agile, general-athlete style PM who can pivot from deep diving the intricacies of how one team executes a technical workflow, to closely examining the metrics of the systems to understand where the failure points are, to mapping an intertwined set of dependencies to build a roadmap, to updating executives on the current and future sets of your program all in the course of a single day.Key ResponsibilitiesYou will be responsible for: * Developing the program vision after synthesizing stakeholder requirements and feedback, and aligning with targeted business outcomes
  • 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).
Required Characteristics:Anduril is an extremely fast-paced defense technology startup that is rapidly scaling itself. Our culture is one of ambition, hard work, relentless pursuit of excellence, and deliberate disruption. The successful candidate will be one who demonstrates the follow core characteristics:
  • 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
Required Qualifications
  • 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
Preferred Characteristics
  • 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.

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