Director, CEO Office

The role

You will lead day-to-day execution across the CEO's highest-priority work. You will build and lead a high-performing team and own the systems, preparation, coordination, and follow-through for the CEO and Chief of Staff.

What you will do

• Run the operating rhythm including cadences, processes, and prioritization.
• Build and lead a high-performing team.
• Turn CEO priorities into executable work.
• Lead high-priority special initiatives.
• Drive senior stakeholders and coordinate leaders across the company.
• Own executive preparation for meetings and engagements.
• Own significant CEO travel and external engagements end-to-end.
• Run executive reviews, offsites, and special cadences.
• Serve as a trusted filter and quality bar for senior leadership.
• Maintain organizational follow-through on commitments.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of progressively increasing responsibility in roles requiring exceptional ownership, judgment, and execution.
• Demonstrated success taking ambiguous, high-stakes problems from a loosely defined starting point through successful execution with limited oversight.
• Exceptional executive judgment and a strong instinct for quality.
• Demonstrated ability to rapidly understand unfamiliar business problems, identify the core issue, and develop a practical path forward.
• Strong executive presence and credibility with senior leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence rather than authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Direct people-management experience, including hiring, developing, and holding high-performing teams accountable.
• A record of building systems and operating mechanisms that allow a function to scale.
• Extremely high ownership and follow-through.
• Ability and willingness to operate at a very high tempo, travel frequently when required, and adapt quickly as priorities change.
• Ability to maintain discretion and sound judgment while working with highly sensitive company, government, personnel, and strategic information.

Nice to have

• Experience as a Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, senior business operator, or leader within an executive office.
• Experience operating alongside the Executive Branch, senior government or military leadership, a CEO, or another senior principal in a high-stakes environment.
• Experience in a fast-growing technology, defense, aerospace, national security, or similarly complex organization.
• Experience in business operations, strategy and operations, corporate planning, finance, growth operations, product operations, or another cross-functional operating role.
• Experience driving complex domestic or international efforts involving senior government, commercial, or strategic stakeholders.
• A track record of repeatedly earning broader scope and responsibility based on performance.

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• This role will require reference checks.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
• 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. Their family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.