About the Role
As Account Director - Maritime, you will support Anduril’s customer engagement for Dive-XL in Australia. You will be a key stakeholder in the Australian customer relationship and a principal voice of the customer within the product organization, working across the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Naval Shipbuilding and Sustainment Group (NSSG), Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group and the Commonwealth departments that shape, sponsor and fund the program. The role combines operational background, capability development experience and commercial judgment, requiring credibility in discussing autonomy behaviors and payload trade-offs, familiarity with defense capability development processes, and conversancy with the ASDEFCON framework. This is a senior, externally facing role where your operational judgment and customer insight will directly inform the definition, development, and deployment of an autonomous undersea capability.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to Anduril’s engagement across the RAN, NSSG, and Commonwealth departments.
- Support a disciplined cadence of briefings, capability forums, working groups, and demonstrations.
- Act as a principal channel between the customer and Anduril, conveying customer intent and representing capability.
- Contribute to the development of employment concepts and CONOPS for autonomous undersea capability.
- Distil operational analysis, threat assessments, and customer intent into clear, prioritized capability needs.
- Support the growth path from current contracts toward fleet scale.
- Work with the Product Director to keep contract execution and customer commitments aligned to the capability roadmap.
- Support customer engagement around trials, demonstrations, and milestone events.
- Represent Australian customer interests within the wider Dive-XL portfolio.
- Partner with Engineering, Programs, Support Systems, Test and Evaluation, Contracts, Growth, and Communications to present a coherent Anduril to the customer.
Requirements
- Extensive RAN warfare experience with a demonstrated operational record at sea.
- Experience within a capability manager, force design, or requirements role.
- An existing network across Navy, Defence, and the Australian undersea enterprise.
- Ability to establish trust quickly and communicate complex concepts to diverse audiences.
- Allied exchange, coalition operations, or overseas posting experience.
- Working knowledge of the ASDEFCON environment and Commonwealth approaches to market.
- Sufficient technical depth to engage substantively on autonomy, mission systems, payloads, and undersea employment concepts.
- Experience shaping scope, developing the case for investment, and understanding capability funding.
- A high-ownership approach with a strong bias for action.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required, approximately 30%.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a NV2 security clearance.
- TSPV desirable.
Skills
- Autonomy behaviors
- Payload trade-offs
- Capability requirements development
- ASDEFCON framework
- Operational judgement
- Customer insight
- Autonomy
- Mission systems
- Undersea employment concepts
- Communication
- Technical depth
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees
About the Company
- Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.
- Anduril brings 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.
- Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military.
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