Director, European Strategic Communications

The role

You will build and lead Anduril's external communications presence across Europe. This senior individual contributor role involves developing strategy, managing media relations, and establishing agency networks to shape the company's reputation in defense markets.

What you will do

• Build Anduril's European communications program from the ground up.
• Drive media relations across defense, technology, business, and policy outlets.
• Develop and execute market-specific narrative strategies.
• Support market entry, customer engagement, partnerships, and key events.
• Build and manage a network of regional agencies and contractors.
• Partner with global communications, policy, and marketing teams.
• Engage think tanks, research institutions, and policy communities.
• Own metrics and reporting frameworks to track progress.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in communications, public affairs, or media relations.
• Fluency in the European defense and political landscape across multiple countries.
• A track record of building communications programs in new markets.
• Experience managing agencies, contractors, and regional communications networks across borders.
• Exceptional writing and strategic thinking.
• Comfortable working autonomously in an early-stage market environment.

Nice to have

• Have built something before, a market presence, a regional program, a communications function
• Can hold complexity: different countries, different threat perceptions, different industrial interests
• Know Europe's defense ecosystem personally, the journalists, the institutions, the officials

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

Before you apply

• By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening.

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. The company uses Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system, to power its family of systems.