Industrial Strategy Lead, Production Strategy and OperationsActive$243K

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U. S.

What you'll do

• PS&O is the strategic operations arm of Anduril's Production organization. We: exist at the intersection of corporate strategy and manufacturing execution — the team that takes senior leadership's strategic priorities and turns them into operational reality. Industrial Development is one of three PS&O pillars: Industrial Development: Production M&A thesis, upstream funnel management, review of vertical integration, production centric diligence

• Industrial Integration: Post-acquisition production integration deployment to suppliers

• Special Projects: High-priority, cross-cutting production initiatives ("up and out" strategic projects and "down and in" site deployments)

• We are a small, high-leverage team building the playbook for scaling defense: production. If you want to work on problems that matter — at the intersection of M&A, manufacturing, and national security — this is the team.

• You will be the production voice in Anduril's M&A process: the person who can look at an acquisition target and articulate whether it makes Anduril's production base stronger, weaker, or redundant. This is not a traditional CorpDev role. You won't be building DCFs or negotiating purchase agreements. You'll be developing the production thesis for why Anduril should (or shouldn't) acquire a company, running the production centric diligence that CorpDev doesn't have the domain expertise to execute, and ensuring that what we buy actually integrates into how we build things.

• Production M&A Thesis Development: Scan the defense industrial base and work with Division leaders to evaluate acquisition targets that fill production capability gaps — vertical integration opportunities, critical supplier consolidation, or capacity expansion. Build business cases grounded in manufacturing economics (not just revenue multiples).

What they're looking for

• Diligence Leadership: Scope and lead production-focused diligence workstreams for active deals. Assess target manufacturing capabilities, production capacity, workforce quality, equipment condition, quality systems maturity, and supply chain health. Deliver clear go/no-go recommendations to CorpDev and Production leadership.
• Integration Handoff: Translate diligence findings into actionable integration plans. Coordinate with Anduril’s M&A integration team on Day 0/Day 1 activities while owning the production-specific integration risks (systems cutover, supplier transition, quality system harmonization).
• CorpDev Partnership: Serve as the primary PS&O interface to CorpDev throughout the deal process. You complement their financial and legal diligence with operational and production assessment — you are the person who can tell CorpDev "yes, this factory can actually scale to 10x volume" or "no, their quality system is a $5M fix."
• Team Leadership: Lead a 2-person sub-team (Analyst + Production Diligence Specialist). Set diligence priorities, review work products, and develop junior team members.