andurilindustries

Senior Operations Lead

At a Glance

Location
Chantilly, Virginia, United States; Herndon, Virginia, United States
Experience
8+ years
Department
Software
Posted
2026-08-11T12:30:47-04:00

Key Requirements

Domain Knowledge

  • Aerospace
  • Banking
  • Defense
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Finance
  • Media
  • Regulatory

Benefits & Perks

Health Insurance

ensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to empl

Requirements

Experience working with engineers and bringing hardware/software products to market strongly preferred.

Experience interfacing with company leadership and executives is a must, with a demonstrated ability to cultivate trust and facilitate meetings for and engage with executives.

High ownership with the horsepower to effectively manage multiple (3-5+) large projects and priorities in parallel, at a rapid pace, and report out on progress regularly.

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Responsibilities

The Senior Operations Lead is a core member of the Space Special Programs Business Line leadership team, with a mandate to develop and scale the organization’s people and processes to maintain and grow our advantage as a technology-led, outcome-oriented systems integrator for the full spectrum of space missions.

In this role you will be responsible for all internal business operations.

This role requires you to be a trusted partner to each part of the business, and to work with and support the General Manager to achieve our strategic objectives.

Organizational planning and development

Partner with the General Manager and their leadership team to develop and execute strategy for organizational planning and development.

Implement tools and processes for generating data that can drive decisions

Team

In the Space Special Programs team, we build spacecraft and space systems which serve a wide variety of functions in the space architecture. At a time when space superiority can no longer be taken for granted and with space systems proliferating at an incredible rate, the Space Special Programs team provides advanced, mission critical capabilities to our customer base to be able to more effectively operate and survive within this expanding environment with limited personnel. Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Space Special Programs team develops, tests, deploys, and operates new, unique, space capabilities to drive mission success in challenging operational environments.