Senior Manager, Workplace

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing 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 that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center.

As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

Anduril’s Workplace Operations team is seeking a Senior Workplace Manager to join us.

As part of the Real Estate & Facilities division, we are responsible for overseeing and maintaining the operational aspects of a work environment to ensure efficiency, productivity, and a positive work experience.

As a Senior Workplace Manager, you are the dependable backbone supporting the development and management or workplace execution across our Southern California footprint. You will support a diverse, high-performance environment that includes corporate offices, R&D labs, and production/manufacturing spaces, ensuring that our spaces are safe, highly functional, and inspiring. The right candidate will have a ‘high-ownership and low-ego’ approach, strong analytical skills, exceptional communication skills, the ability to build business partnerships with adjacent functions and external partners, and be able to resolve challenging problems with minimal guidance at scale.

• Manage Complex, Multi-Site Operations: Direct daily operations across our Southern California footprint, ensuring high-uptime, functional, and safe environments across corporate offices, sensitive R&D labs, and active production/manufacturing facilities.
• Scale Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs): Design, implement, and continuously refine scalable operational standards and workplace playbooks that keep pace with rapid campus growth.
• Lead Cross-Functional Business Partnerships: Serve as the strategic operational partner to business units—collaborating closely with EHS, Manufacturing, Engineering, IT, and HR to forecast space needs, remove friction, and support operational velocity.
• Apply Analytical Rigor to Costs & Space: Utilize quantitative data and workplace analytics to track OPEX/CAPEX budgets, forecast expenditures, evaluate vendor performance, and optimize space utilization across diverse facility types.
• Drive Facility Projects & Expansions: Plan and execute facility upgrades in coordination with internal project teams and external contractors.
• Foster High-Velocity Communication: Lead clear, rapid, and transparent operational communication—skillfully utilizing platforms like Slack to triage campus issues, coordinate incident response, and keep cross-functional stakeholders aligned.
• Lead with High Ownership & Low Ego: Coach, mentor, and build a high-performing workplace team, setting the standard for humility, accountability, and a customer-first approach to service delivery.

• 7+ years of multi-site operational experience with a proven track record in facilities, workplace, or campus management across a distributed footprint, with direct experience supporting mixed-use environments.
• Analytical & financial rigor with a highly quantitative approach to operations; proven capability to manage and forecast complex OPEX and CAPEX budgets, conduct cost-benefit analyses, and use workplace utilization data to drive decisions.
• Tech fluency and exceptional comfort with fast-paced,…