Associate Director, Business Development, Maritime Security Clearance

Position: Associate Director, Business Development, Maritime with Security Clearance
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. ABOUT THE TEAM Anduril Maritime delivers platforms, systems, and integrated effects in the maritime domain. Our autonomous vehicles (sub-surface and surface) are the cornerstone of these capabilities, and we continually strive to push the boundaries of the possible in terms of endurance, autonomy and mission capability.

The Maritime team develops and maintains core products and payloads, and adapts and applies those products to serve a wide variety of defense, IC and commercial customers in US and international markets. ABOUT THE JOB The Maritime Division builds integrated autonomous maritime systems, including surface and undersea vehicles, subsea sensing, and kinetic payloads, all powered by our Lattice platform. These capabilities provide persistent detection, tracking, and mission execution for both commercial and defense applications.

We are seeking an Associate Director, Business Development, Copperhead, to join our rapidly growing Business Development team in Washington, DC. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and implementing strategies to deliver affordable, high speed Autonomous Undersea Vehicles (AUV) to commercial and defense customers. You will develop and deliver a strategy to field the Copperhead family with key operational customers in high volumes.

Your responsibilities will include shaping hardware product roadmaps and leading capture campaigns to secure contracts and deliver capability. This role requires a deep understanding of undersea commercial operations, undersea kill chains and the challenges of subsea operations. You must have a proven track record in influencing product roadmaps and collaborating with multiple program offices, services, and international partners to deliver capabilities.

If you have a strategic perspective on maritime operations, a successful product strategy background, and experience winning customer-funded projects, this role is for you. WHAT YOU'LL DO
* Generate and capture business opportunities. The BD team is ultimately responsible for growing revenue. You will support the growth team in identifying, pursuing, and shaping future opportunities for our Undersea Reconnaissance and Strike portfolio. You will grow a deep understanding of the existing and prospective client base, know the current and planned programmatic and technical roadmap, and be cognizant of the current and changing competitive landscape.

You will plan, initiate, and manage continuous engagements with current clients and prospective customers and monitor buying cycles for opportunities. You will support proposals and new customer efforts, including authoring and reviewing RFI, RFP, RFWP, and other request responses and support the growth and capture teams in closing on new business.
* Grow existing business. You will partner with adjacent business lines and product engineers to identify opportunities for business growth with current clients. This doesn't just include expanding on current work, but interfacing with existing partners to explore new opportunity areas by sustaining and building on the strong foundation of client relationships.
* Communicate our value to clients. BD team members represent Anduril to a broad audience: clients, partners, competitors, and the interested public. You must project the company's ethos, conveying insights that illustrate our approach to building next-generation defense technology and our competitive edges in…