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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.
*** THIS ROLE IS ON-SITE IN COSTA MESA, CA. RELOCATION ASSISTANCE PROVIDED ***
ABOUT THE TEAM
Anduril's Mission Success team is a cross-functional group that partners with every business line and supports all products that Anduril builds. Our responsibilities include product operations, training and adoption, and user documentation. We are seeking an experienced Technical Writer to create and maintain user documentation across our diverse business lines. We believe that the quality of our documentation should reflect the quality of our products, which are world-class.
ABOUT THE JOB
As a Technical Publications Specialist - Advanced Effects (also known internally as a Technical Writer), your mission is to partner with our numerous product and operations teams to deliver accurate, updated, and easy-to-understand documentation on how to use Anduril products. You will do whatever it takes to organize our engineering and program delivery functions in this mission. In this role, you will work closely with engineers, operations, and various subject matter experts to understand our products, identify user workflows, and use documentation to close the gap. As such, the Technical Writer will play a foundational role in setting the bar for tone, voice, and quality across our written artifacts.
With Anduril's focus on defense and national security, user documentation plays a critical role in ensuring front-line operators know how to leverage the "arsenal of democracy." Your mission is to make the process of learning how to operate complex hardware and software systems as easy and seamless as possible, with exceptionally well-written and presented artifacts.
You will identify relevant stakeholders and lead them through a documentation roadmap with established key milestones and targets. You will engage subject matter experts at the right time, and you will guide them towards a finished user-facing document that plainly meets customer needs. Finally, you will work with our account teams to ensure that contract deliverables are accurate, on-time, and in the right format.
Written content artifacts under this charter may include things like: technical manuals, operational manuals, maintenance manuals, procedures, checklists, templates, user guides, troubleshooting guides, and release notes. You will partner with account, product, and engineering teams across all phases of product development to ensure users have the right documentation available.
Along with our commercial offerings outlined above, Anduril is pursuing programs with the government, which require documentation in standards such as MIL-STD-40051D and S1000D, delivered via IETMs / IETDs. Familiarity with these standards and delivery methods is highly desired.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Generate, review, and edit documentation that is user-focused. Work with engineering and operations to deliver task, conditions, and standard-centric documentation.
- Evaluate and prioritize tasks required to successfully support product documentation efforts and keep them on track. Help drive the best decision for the company by using a data-driven approach and considering input from stakeholders to ensure well-informed decisions.
- Communicate and help manage expectations. Ensure risks are noted with adequate time and shared with leadership.
- Help build a culture of technical documentation by contributing to the living documentation process, ensuring that those who come after you learn from your acquired Anduril experience.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 4+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation for complex hardware, software, or aerospace systems.
- Experience writing technical, user-facing documentation.
- Experience reading and interpreting engineering documentation (e.g., schematics, CAD, or software specs).
- Experience building content in a variety of formats (Word, XML, DITA, etc.).
- Strong written/verbal communication and interpersonal skills, with an emphasis on explaining highly technical subjects simply.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance.
- Ability to relocate, if not already local, to be onsite in Costa Mesa, CA.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Military exposure and experience, particularly with military technical documentation writing and formatting standards, guidelines, and verbiage (MIL-STD-40051, S1000D, etc.).
- Passion for excellent documentation and user experience.
- Previous experience creating technical documentation in Aerospace and Defense (for DoD).
- Experience delivering content on fast-paced, complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
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:
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 contact@anduril.com.
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.
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 contact@anduril.com. Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.
Data Privacy
To view Anduril's candidate data privacy policy, please visit https://anduril.com/applicant-privacy-notice/.
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.
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.
*** THIS ROLE IS ON-SITE IN COSTA MESA, CA. RELOCATION ASSISTANCE PROVIDED ***
ABOUT THE TEAM
Anduril's Mission Success team is a cross-functional group that partners with every business line and supports all products that Anduril builds. Our responsibilities include product operations, training and adoption, and user documentation. We are seeking an experienced Technical Writer to create and maintain user documentation across our diverse business lines. We believe that the quality of our documentation should reflect the quality of our products, which are world-class.
ABOUT THE JOB
As a Technical Publications Specialist - Advanced Effects (also known internally as a Technical Writer), your mission is to partner with our numerous product and operations teams to deliver accurate, updated, and easy-to-understand documentation on how to use Anduril products. You will do whatever it takes to organize our engineering and program delivery functions in this mission. In this role, you will work closely with engineers, operations, and various subject matter experts to understand our products, identify user workflows, and use documentation to close the gap. As such, the Technical Writer will play a foundational role in setting the bar for tone, voice, and quality across our written artifacts.
With Anduril's focus on defense and national security, user documentation plays a critical role in ensuring front-line operators know how to leverage the "arsenal of democracy." Your mission is to make the process of learning how to operate complex hardware and software systems as easy and seamless as possible, with exceptionally well-written and presented artifacts.
You will identify relevant stakeholders and lead them through a documentation roadmap with established key milestones and targets. You will engage subject matter experts at the right time, and you will guide them towards a finished user-facing document that plainly meets customer needs. Finally, you will work with our account teams to ensure that contract deliverables are accurate, on-time, and in the right format.
Written content artifacts under this charter may include things like: technical manuals, operational manuals, maintenance manuals, procedures, checklists, templates, user guides, troubleshooting guides, and release notes. You will partner with account, product, and engineering teams across all phases of product development to ensure users have the right documentation available.
Along with our commercial offerings outlined above, Anduril is pursuing programs with the government, which require documentation in standards such as MIL-STD-40051D and S1000D, delivered via IETMs / IETDs. Familiarity with these standards and delivery methods is highly desired.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Generate, review, and edit documentation that is user-focused. Work with engineering and operations to deliver task, conditions, and standard-centric documentation.
- Evaluate and prioritize tasks required to successfully support product documentation efforts and keep them on track. Help drive the best decision for the company by using a data-driven approach and considering input from stakeholders to ensure well-informed decisions.
- Communicate and help manage expectations. Ensure risks are noted with adequate time and shared with leadership.
- Help build a culture of technical documentation by contributing to the living documentation process, ensuring that those who come after you learn from your acquired Anduril experience.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 4+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation for complex hardware, software, or aerospace systems.
- Experience writing technical, user-facing documentation.
- Experience reading and interpreting engineering documentation (e.g., schematics, CAD, or software specs).
- Experience building content in a variety of formats (Word, XML, DITA, etc.).
- Strong written/verbal communication and interpersonal skills, with an emphasis on explaining highly technical subjects simply.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance.
- Ability to relocate, if not already local, to be onsite in Costa Mesa, CA.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Military exposure and experience, particularly with military technical documentation writing and formatting standards, guidelines, and verbiage (MIL-STD-40051, S1000D, etc.).
- Passion for excellent documentation and user experience.
- Previous experience creating technical documentation in Aerospace and Defense (for DoD).
- Experience delivering content on fast-paced, complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
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:
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 contact@anduril.com.
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.
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 contact@anduril.com. Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.
Data Privacy
To view Anduril's candidate data privacy policy, please visit https://anduril.com/applicant-privacy-notice/.
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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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in director of publications jobs.
- 7 or more years of editorial or publishing experience, with at least 3 in a leadership role
- Demonstrated experience managing print and digital publication workflows from concept to distribution
- Proficiency with content management systems and publishing production software
- Strong project management skills with experience coordinating editorial, design, and legal review teams
- Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, English, or a closely related field
- Experience developing and enforcing editorial style guides and brand voice standards
Tips for Your Director of Publications Job Search
Tailor your resume for publishing scope
Highlight the full range of publications you've overseen, including print, digital, and journal formats, and name the teams you've led. Directors of Publications are evaluated on breadth of output and editorial governance, not just writing credits.
Show your editorial calendar management
Hiring managers for this role want evidence you've owned publication schedules end to end. Call out specific examples where you coordinated across editorial, design, legal review, and distribution to hit a launch deadline under pressure.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists director of publications openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target organizations by publication volume
Associations, academic institutions, and large nonprofits typically publish the most, making them the most active hirers for this title. Filter your search by organization type, not just industry, to find postings where your editorial output experience maps directly to their needs.
Prepare a publications portfolio, not a writing sample
Bring a one-page summary of every major publication you've launched or managed, with format, audience size, and your specific role in its production. Interviewers want to see your operational oversight of a full publication lifecycle, not your individual writing voice.
Negotiate around editorial autonomy, not just salary
In final-round discussions, ask directly about approval chains for content decisions, budget authority over freelancers and vendors, and whether the publications strategy is set above your level. These factors shape the actual scope of the role more than the job title does.
Director of Publications Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most director of publicationss?
The companies hiring the most director of publicationss right now include Apple, Anduril, and Envision Pharma, with the largest share of openings in California, Maryland, and Massachusetts, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Universities, professional associations, and large nonprofits consistently account for a significant portion of active postings.
How many director of publications jobs are remote?
About 66% of director of publications openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong demand for experienced editorial leaders who can manage distributed teams. Roles focused on digital-first or journal publishing tend to offer the most remote flexibility, while positions tied to print production or in-house design teams more often require on-site presence.
How do you become a director of publications?
Most directors of publications move up through editorial roles such as managing editor, senior editor, or publications manager, building experience across the full production cycle. You'll need demonstrated leadership of editorial teams, ownership of publication schedules, and familiarity with both print and digital formats. A background in communications, journalism, or a related field is standard, and exposure to budget management strengthens your candidacy at the director level.
Can you get a director of publications job with limited experience?
Getting hired at the director level with limited experience is difficult, but moving up from a senior editor or publications manager role is the most direct path. If you're earlier in your career, focus on taking ownership of an entire publication's production process, managing at least one direct report, and building a record of launching or scaling a publication. Those are the credentials that hiring managers look for when evaluating readiness for the director title.
What does the director of publications interview process look like?
The interview process for this role typically starts with a screening call focused on your editorial leadership background and the types of publications you've managed. This is followed by one or two panel interviews with senior leadership, editorial staff, or cross-functional partners covering your approach to editorial strategy, production workflows, and team management. Many employers also ask for a work sample, portfolio review, or a short written exercise demonstrating your editorial judgment and voice standards.
Where can I find and apply to director of publications jobs?
You can find and apply to director of publications jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your editorial background and apply directly to each one that fits your experience and goals.
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