What are the responsibilities and job description for the Change Management Lead position at Anduril Industries?
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 Strategic Operations team manages the end-to-end processes that enable Anduril to build, ship, and deploy products at scale. As part of the Strategic Operations team, the Organizational Change Management (OCM) group is responsible for managing the portfolio of initiatives and assess how changes will impact business design and processes to drive organizational strategy. Working across engineering, sales, finance and logistics teams to identify opportunities for improvement, develop solutions and lead projects to deliver successful outcomes.
The Adoption Management Lead plays a critical role in ensuring projects achieve their intended business outcomes by addressing the people side of change. This includes changes to business processes, systems, technology, job roles, and organizational structures. The role combines strategic vision and tactical execution to develop and implement comprehensive change management strategies, frameworks, and tools. By fostering change maturity across functions and the organization, the Adoption Management Lead drives faster adoption, greater utilization, and sustained value from change initiatives.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Develop and implement an organizational change management (OCM) strategy and framework, including systems, tools, and methodologies, to build and sustain change maturity across functions at Anduril.
- Establish and maintain a standardized approach, work plan, tools, and metrics to drive successful change outcomes.
- Lead efforts to assess and enhance change maturity levels across the organization.
- Support the project portfolio through intake processes, resourcing staffing, and defining a consistent support approach for change management activities.
- Ensure coordination between the Center of Excellence and embedded networks.
- Drive decisions, priorities, and alignment across communication and training domains, ensuring localization follows COE standards.
- Provide guidance when overlaps occur between Communication and Training initiatives.
- Collaborate with leadership to align change management strategies with overall business objectives and measure their impact through common adoption metrics and value realization metrics.
- Develop and manage comprehensive, pragmatic change work plans, ensuring alignment with overall project timelines and deliverables.
- Facilitate stakeholder engagement, including internal communications, collaboration, and alignment among impacted teams and leaders.
- Drive adoption readiness by identifying barriers to change and implementing readiness plans to address gaps.
- Design and oversee training plans to ensure users have the knowledge and skills required to adopt new systems, processes, and behaviors.
- Provide steady-state support for sustaining change post-implementation, including reinforcement mechanisms and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Collaborate with design teams and related organizational groups to integrate change management efforts seamlessly into broader project deliverables.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- You have an insanely high execution bar and will see projects through from conception to tactical completion to move Anduril forward.
- You have 6 years of experience in change management, including strategy development, framework design, and tactical execution.
- You have strong expertise in OCM tools, methodologies, and metrics.
- You consider people, and you love solving complex, ambiguous, cross-functional problems in a people-centric way.
- You're both high ownership and low ego, approaching everything with strong outcome orientation and high humility.
- You're genuinely curious and creative, wanting to dive deep into a variety of operational process and systems problems and think critically to define optimal solutions.
- You're tactical and don't only sit at a 30,000 foot level.
- You're discerning and an incredibly fast learner.
- U.S. Person Status is required as this position needs to access controlled data.
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
- Platinum Healthcare Benefits: For U.S. roles, we offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
- For UK roles, Private Medical Insurance (PMI): Anduril will cover the full cost of the insurance premium for an employee and dependents.
- For AUS roles, Private health plan through Bupa: Coverage is fully subsidized by Anduril.
- Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance 100% covered by Anduril, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
- Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a holiday hiatus in December, and highly competitive PTO plans.
- 16 weeks of paid Caregiver & Wellness Leave to care for a family member, bond with your baby, or tend to your own medical condition.
- Family Planning & Parenting Support: Fertility (eg, IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carrier coverage with additional benefits and resources to provide support from planning to parenting.
- Mental Health Resources: We provide free mental health resources 24/7 including therapy, life coaching, and more. Additional work-life services, such as free legal and financial support, available to you as well.
- A professional development stipend is available to all Andurilians.
- Daily Meals and Provisions: For many of our offices this means breakfast, lunch and fully stocked micro-kitchens.
- Company-funded commuter benefits available based on your region.
- Relocation assistance (depending on role eligibility).
- 401(k) retirement savings plan - both a traditional and Roth 401(k). (US roles only)
The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.
Anduril is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. The Anduril team is made up of incredibly talented and unique individuals, who together are disrupting industry norms by creating new paths towards the future of defense technology. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, Veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law, including those with a criminal history, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the CA Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. We actively encourage members of recognized minorities, women, Veterans, and those with disabilities to apply, and we work to create a welcoming and supportive environment for all applicants throughout the interview process. If you are someone passionate about working on problems that have a real-world impact, we'd love to hear from you!
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