Technical Publications Operations Manager
Company websiteanduril.com (Anduril Industries, opens in new tab)
Base salary $146K to $194K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Costa Mesa, CA
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- LocationCosta Mesa, CA
- WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (1 h ago) · observed since
About this job
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.
Team Overview
Anduril’s Technical Publications organization supports complex hardware, software, autonomy, and defense systems across multiple divisions, business lines, and programs. Technical Publications Managers and writers are aligned to specific programs, and this role keeps the department’s intake, staffing, and priority decisions moving as program demand changes.
Role Specifics
As the Technical Publications Operations Manager, your mission is to own how Technical Publications work is received, prioritized, staffed, and tracked across programs. You will run Jira intake, resource allocation, throughput tracking, and cross-program priority resolution for the department. You will work daily with the Head of Technical Publications, Senior Technical Publications Managers, and program-level Technical Publications Managers to translate incoming demand into sequencing and staffing decisions. This is an execution role for someone who can sequence competing program demands, make firm staffing decisions, and keep leadership current on delivery status and anything that needs their attention.
What You’ll Do
- Own department-level Jira intake, triage, workflow governance, and priority routing for Technical Publications work.
- Decide how work is sequenced and staffed when program priorities compete.
- Own the department’s view of workload, throughput, blockers, delivery risk, and capacity across the work portfolio.
- Reallocate writers against changing program demand and escalate only the conflicts that genuinely require leadership decision.
- Build and maintain the reporting and operating metrics that leadership uses to assess department performance and staffing needs.
- Run recurring execution reviews, planning sessions, and follow-up to completion.
- Coordinate with Mission Readiness, Engineering, Program Management, Training, ILS, Support, and Product to keep publication work aligned with program schedules.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in operations, program management, resource planning, or workflow ownership in a technical environment.
- Experience owning intake, prioritization, throughput tracking, or resource allocation for a multi-stakeholder team.
- Experience driving execution across teams where you did not have direct reporting authority.
- Experience using Jira or a comparable work-management system as an operating system of record.
- Ability to make timely, evidence-based resourcing and prioritization decisions.
- Willingness to make and defend firm staffing and sequencing decisions among programs with competing priorities.
- Must be eligible for Secret and higher security clearance (US).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomy, manufacturing, or another complex technical environment.
- Experience supporting technical publications, sustainment, training, ILS, or another documentation-heavy delivery function.
- Familiarity with formal deliverables such as CDRLs, DMRLs, technical manuals, or similar customer-committed outputs.
- Experience building operating metrics, dashboards, or staffing views for department leadership
US Salary Range
$146,000—$194,000 USD
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:
Benefits
At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.
Protecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams
Anduril is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent acquisition process and the security of our candidates. We've observed a rise in sophisticated phishing and fraudulent schemes where individuals impersonate Anduril representatives, luring job seekers with false interviews or job offers. These scammers often attempt to extract payment or sensitive personal information.
To ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence, please keep the following critical points in mind:
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No Financial Requests: Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates.
- Please always verify communications:
- Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters, it will only come from an @anduril.com address.
- Via Agency Partner: If contacted by a recruiting agency for an Anduril role, their email will clearly identify their agency. If you suspect any suspicious activity, please verify the agency's authenticity by reaching out to [email protected].
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Exercise Caution with Unsolicited Outreach: If you receive any communication that appears suspicious, contains grammatical errors, or makes unusual requests, do not engage. Always confirm the sender's email domain is @anduril.com before providing any personal information or clicking on links.
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What to Do If You Suspect Fraud: Should you encounter any questionable or fraudulent outreach claiming to be from Anduril, please report it immediately to [email protected]. Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.
Data Privacy
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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 and assessing potential risks as part of your application process. This third-party service provider provides risk-intelligence services that may include analysis of sanctions and watchlists, adverse media, public-record information, and other lawful open-source or commercial data sources. This third-party service provider does not act as a consumer reporting agency. Use of this provider helps to ensure compliance with applicable laws and protect technology, intellectual property, and organizational security.
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Pay in context
This role's base floor ($146,000) is above 50% of the 626 Business Operations roles in California listed on this site; 3 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $145,000; the middle half runs from $125,000 to $176,371.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.
This listingTechnical Publications Operations Manager$146K to $194K
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Senior Electrical Design Engineer, Integrated Product Team Lead$146K to $194K
Senior Integration & Test Engineer$146K to $194K
Senior Supplier Industrialization Engineer, Mechanical$146K to $194K
RF Communications Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike, Active Clearance$146K to $194K
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Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Technical Publications Operations Manager (this listing) | $146K - $194K |
| Senior Product Sourcing Engineer, Core Tech | $146K - $194K |
| Senior Electrical Design Engineer, Integrated Product Team Lead | $146K - $194K |
| Senior Integration & Test Engineer | $146K - $194K |
| Senior Supplier Industrialization Engineer, Mechanical | $146K - $194K |
| RF Communications Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike, Active Clearance | $146K - $194K |
| Systems Engineer, C2 Integration, Active Clearance | $146K - $194K |
Observed changes
- First observed on the employer's board
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-08-07
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: Costa Mesa, California, United States
$146,000—$194,000 USD
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- The pay is an annual base salary in US dollars with a minimum of at least $100,000.
- The role was publicly listed on the employer's job board when last checked.
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