Strategic Real Estate, Air Dominance & Strike

The role

The Strategic Planning Lead will own the determination of space requirements, types, and locations for the Air Dominance and Strike Division. You will optimize the current real estate portfolio and create long-term strategic plans for capital investment and facility growth.

What you will do

• Optimize supply and demand of the current real estate portfolio
• Establish process and structure for raising and vetting space requests
• Pressure test demand against headcount plans, program schedules, and production ramps
• Match demand to supply by sizing gaps against current and committed space
• Sequence moves by building plans for personnel and infrastructure
• Create and execute longer-term real estate strategy
• Own the three to five year model for capital investment
• Strategize build-where models for complex hardware integration
• Model near-term scenarios and their effect on space and cost

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience in corporate real estate, facilities, strategy, business operations, program or operations management, or FP&A / capacity planning
• Record of enabling growth
• Experience leading or mentoring analysts/associates
• Ability to see the big picture and apply it to day-to-day decisions
• Ability to learn a program quickly
• High agency and low ego
• Excellent communication and capacity to influence cross-functional teams and senior executives
• Ability to travel up to 10% for site visits and stakeholder meetings
• Must be eligible to hold a US Top Secret clearance

Nice to have

• Some fluency in engineering and production processes
• Experience planning space through a manufacturing or R&D ramp
• Experience sequencing moves or builds with many dependencies, including classified or secure space
• Strong analytical modeling in Excel and Python or SQL
• Hands-on use of LLMs and modern data platforms (Palantir Foundry or similar)

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

Before you apply

• Must be eligible to hold a US Top Secret clearance
• 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 Air Dominance and Strike Division develops next generation collaborative combat aircraft, advanced effects, and autonomous weapons software.