Vetting Program Manager

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.

The Counterintelligence (CI) and Security Investigations Team’s safeguards Anduril’s workforce and supply chain by proactively identifying risk, mitigating threats and delivering actionable investigative insights. The team helps ensure our security environment remains vigilant and resilient so that our strategic interests are preserved. We are committed to anticipating and mitigating risks and threats enabling Anduril to innovate and operate confidently in a dynamic global environment.

Anduril is seeking a professional to support the CI and Security Investigations team who is interested in a unique opportunity to help strategize, socialize and implement new programs and initiatives around people risk vetting which requires significant critical thinking, creativity, complex problem solving and interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to work independently across a rapidly growing, global, dynamic organization.

The CI & Security Investigations Vetting Program Manager is responsible for developing and overseeing the build out of a variety of new capabilities around people risk vetting across the organization. This role will help manage various initiatives that aim to build robust screening and vetting processes to ensure Anduril is engaging with trusted and verified entities. The role will involve the technical integration of data and tools, the build out of workflows and processes, development of policies and procedures as well as the day to day operational work of triaging, analyzing and investigating and ensuring high quality, timely support is delivered.

The Vetting Program Manager must be a self-starter that thrives in building programs from the ground up and is responsive to fast paced and dynamic operational and threat environments. The Vetting Program Manager must possess an understanding of CI, people risk, people/entity vetting and investigations and must have a demonstrated ability to analyze and communicate complex risks and threats as well as manage a program end-to-end.

• Develop and execute various screening and vetting initiatives to include for the workforce and visitors to meet the defense industry's unique threats and requirements and ensure Anduril is engaging with trusted entities.
• Establish and cultivate collaborative partnerships across internal stakeholders to enable the rapid delivery of solutions.
• Oversee various technical and non-technical initiatives to proactively identify potential people risk.
• Advise all levels, to include senior leadership on screening and vetting-related initiatives and events.
• Establish and maintain relationships with industry counterparts to share best practices and threat intelligence.
• Lead and support investigations and assessments of identified risks and threats and drive the development of appropriate response measures.
• Develop policies, internal standard operating procedures, processes and risk frameworks to enable screening and vetting initiatives.
• Develop, inform and shape policies and procedures related to screening and vetting initiatives that are responsive to the identified threats and comply with government regulations and contractual obligations.
• Produce/oversee a variety of analysis and related investigations to support people screening and vetting initiatives.
• Monitor global intelligence and security trends to inform and drive screening and vetting initiatives.
• Develop and deliver…