Director, Production Analytics

Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · 5+ years experience · Posted Oct 19, 2026

At a glance

The Director, Production Analytics owns Production Analytics globally across every site, product line, and production function including Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain, Planning, and Warehousing / Material Management.
This is a player-coach role where you will lead the hardest analytical problems hands-on on flagship programs and build a team to run several more in parallel.

Apply analytics to production’s biggest problems and take the hardest two or three problems in Anduril's flagship programs and build analytics into them end to end, hands-on.
Make the various business units in Anduril decide earlier by shifting production reporting from retrospective to leading.
Turn what worked into the enterprise standard by generalizing proven capabilities into supported products and standardizing definitions.
Answer what it takes to scale by owning the analytical side of a ramp from low rate to high rate and keeping a current, evidenced view of constraints.
Build the team and the foundation by leading the consolidated analytics organization and the managers within it.
Hold the line that the various business units own master data quality while the analytics team builds tooling that makes defects visible and cheap to fix.
Produce numbers the business can trust by fixing data where metrics are wrong before building on top of them.

10+ years in analytics, data, or quantitative operations, including 5+ years leading analytics or data teams, and experience managing managers or clear readiness to do so.
A rigorous, teachable approach to ambiguous problems.
Genuinely hands-on with strong SQL and a modern data stack.
Demonstrated ability to identify the highest-value problem in a messy operational environment and solve it analytically.
A track record with specific operational outcomes your work caused, with the numbers, the program, and the skeptics named.
Experience shipping analytics as supported products with real users, and retiring what they replace.
Able to influence business unit and functional leadership peer-to-peer without authority, and to work credibly with an unconvinced program team.
Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance and U.S. person status required per ITAR/EAR.

Operational depth in manufacturing, supply chain, or planning, including fluency with routings, work orders, MRP exceptions, and cycle counts.
Analytical ownership of a production ramp from low rate to high rate.
Experience building an analytics function from a scattered starting point, consolidating people, standards, and tooling that previously sat under separate owners.
Databricks and Palantir Foundry, dimensional modeling and semantic or ontology layers.
High-rate or high-mix manufacturing, defense production, or another environment scaling volume fast.

Highly competitive equity grants
Top-tier benefits for full-time employees supporting health, recovery, and whatever comes next