Product Owner, Digital Manufacturing

$100,000 - $185,000/Yr

Anduril Industries - Costa Mesa, CA

Full-time - Senior

Costa Mesa, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

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 real-time, 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. Anduril is committed to transforming US and allied defense through a rapid, agile, and scalable approach to manufacturing. As part of this effort, Anduril is investing considerably in the development of Arsenal-OS and Arsenal-1, a five million square foot production space designed to produce tens of thousands of autonomous military systems annually. Come join us as we build a new software-defined manufacturing platform for modern warfare and reimagine industrialization in the US. Anduril's Factory as a Product team is seeking a Digital Manufacturing Product Owner to join our team. The Factory as a Product team defines and delivers solutions to improve the manufacturing engineering way of working. As Digital Manufacturing Product Owner, you will own processes and digital tools focused on transforming the co-design & engineering lifecycle phases of our physical products and factories. This role also offers the opportunity to be more hands-on with solutioning in addition to typical product owner responsibilities. If you are excited to take a new approach where manufacturing itself is the product and the future is hyper-scale and software-defined, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage digital manufacturing solutions from inception through implementation.
• Understand Anduril's vision for production and the product lifecycle.
• Distill this into actionable initiatives and deliver effective solutions unconstrained by industry legacy.
• Own new digital tools for manufacturing engineering and industrial engineering.
• Balance standardization with adaptability and agility for scalable solutions that maximize impact and business value.
• Collaborate closely with end-users to deeply understand their pain points, needs, and the intricacies of their workflows.
• Challenge identified needs and capture inputs for solutioning.
• Develop solutions encompassing business process, digital tools, and data.
• Evaluate alternatives, decompose solutions into actionable items, create roadmaps.
• Specify functional requirements and workflows to the business systems team.
• Collaborate with the business systems team to prioritize projects, ensure implementation, and coordinate testing and validation to ensure processes and tools meet end-user need.
• Champion the deployment and adoption across global manufacturing engineering teams.
• Create an implementation strategy to facilitate change, communicate vision and roadmap to provide clear expectations on what is being put in place and why.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to converge with other company initiatives and architect solutions to align with complex constraints (program timelines, software, etc).
• Navigate differing priorities to ensure solutions benefit Anduril holistically.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in product management, digital transformation, change management, or engineering transformation.
• 6+ years experience overall in one or more of the following domains: product management, digital transformation, change management, consulting, experience design, digital manufacturing, industrial or manufacturing engineering, new product introduction, business process, or operational excellence.
• Experience working with engineering, manufacturing and business systems teams.
• Track record of successfully developing and implementing impactful solutions.
• Ability to converge corporate strategy and cross-industry best practices with operational realities for attainable and sustainable results.
• Results and impact focused mindset and proven operational effectiveness.
• Ability to work autonomously through ambiguity.
• Ability to create effective relationships and enact change.
• U.S. person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data.

Nice-to-haves

• 8 - 10+ years experience in relevant domains
• Experience leading organizational change.
• Experience with Siemens software including Teamcenter, Easy Plan, Process Simulate, and/or Plant Simulate.
• Experience from engineering to production with deep knowledge of development, co-design, and engineering phases of product lifecycle.

Benefits

• Commuter assistance
• AD&D insurance
• Disability insurance
• Relocation assistance
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance