Senior Manager, Operations

- Lead Scheduling & Coordination and Site Operations - including but not limited to: combined team performance, headcount planning, hiring, development, and career progression.

- Manage the end-to-end operating model for test execution: intake, prioritization, scheduling, resourcing, range setup, execution, and after-action closeout across all internal and external test sites.

- Serve as the single accountable operations leader for test-site throughput; balancing competing program demands and resolving resource conflicts, in a safe and efficient manner.

- Partner with Hardware Test Operations leadership, Safety and Standards, hardware product managers, test engineering, EH&S, and facilities to align test-site capacity with product roadmaps and program/business line milestones.

- Build and maintain the metrics, dashboards, and operating reviews that make test-site performance visible to leadership.

- Establish and enforce a consistent operating model so that intake, scheduling, safety reviews, and site operations are standardized across all Anduril test sites.

- Manage the external relationships and serve as operational point of contact to organizations that support test site operations such as: DoD and DoE test range counterparts, FAA and airspace coordinators, frequency coordinators, site directors, and military units.

- Partner with the Safety & Standards team to ensure test-site operations comply with the Hardware Test Operations documented policies.

- Support incident response and post-event reviews ensuring lessons learned feed back into scheduling, site ops, and training.

- Travel: up to 50% between internal test sites and external partner ranges.

- 7+ years of progressive experience in test operations, flight test, range operations, or a closely related operational leadership field.

- 3+ years of direct people-management experience, including managing other managers or team leads.

- Demonstrated experience running or leading operations at a flight test range, DoD/DoE test range, or comparable operational environment (UAS, cUAS, manned aviation, or autonomous systems).

- Strong program and project management foundation - able to run intake, prioritization, scheduling, and execution across multiple concurrent programs and sites.

- Track record of building and enforcing operating cadence that drive team performance and leadership visibility (metric tracking, executive presentations, etc.).

- Experience partnering with safety and standards functions to run operations safely in high-tempo, high-risk environments.

- Proficiency with modern business and operations tooling: Airtable, Asana, Microsoft Office, Smartsheet, and equivalent scheduling / workflow systems.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills - able to translate operational details into executive-level updates.

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

- BS degree, or high school diploma with 10 years of relevant operational experience.

- Background in aviation operations - military aviation, ATC, JTAC, test pilot support, or FAA-regulated UAS operations.

- Experience standing up or scaling operations at multiple geographically distributed sites.

- Experience integrating operations across manned and unmanned aircraft systems.