The board
- Pay
- $151K – $220K • Offers Equity
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA
- Posted
- Aug 28
Hadrian - Manufacturing the Future
Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. By combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we help aerospace and defense companies build rockets, satellites, aircraft, ships, and other mission-critical systems up to 10x faster and at significantly lower cost.
Following our $1.37B Series D at a $7.87B valuation, Hadrian is rapidly expanding our manufacturing footprint, launching new capabilities across welding, casting, forging, electronics, additive manufacturing, and more, while scaling our Factory-as-a-Service platform to transform how critical products are built.
Backed by leading investors including JPMorgan Chase, Valor Equity Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, 137 Ventures, Lux Capital, T.
What you'd do
- Define new programs and their early execution phases alongside the CEO and senior leaders
- Run customer discovery, working meetings, and site visits to gather unstructured data and shape programs
- Surface cost, schedule, and delivery risks early, and drive the mitigation and execution plans
- Own factory and production-line stand-ups end to end — capital plan, long-lead equipment, site readiness, workforce ramp, and the reviews that clear a line to start producing
- Drive high-impact initiatives that accelerate Hadrian’s growth across aerospace and defense
- Build quantitative models that turn operational and customer problems into roadmaps, investment cases, and ROI frameworks
- Connect manufacturing performance data to business priorities and government program needs
- Bring structure and decisions to ambiguous, high-stakes manufacturing and execution challenges
- Support proposal development and capture management, including for follow-on business (e.g., RFP submissions, Statement of Work development)
- Own program financials: budget, cost-to-complete, and margin, with a clear forecast of where each program lands
What they want
- Experience: 6+ years in management consulting, federal programs, manufacturing, or operations/strategy roles, ideally within aerospace, defense, or industrial environments. You’ve owned programs or workstreams, not just supported them.
- Education: Bachelor’s in Business, Economics, Operations, Engineering, or a related field. Master’s degree is a plus.
- Travel: Willingness to travel 20–40% domestically to customer and manufacturing sites.
- A&D Familiarity: Direct work in aerospace and defense manufacturing — with Primes, OEMs, Tier 1/2 suppliers, or large industrial programs.
- Cross-functional experience across Operations, Finance, Engineering, Program Management, or Business teams is a plus.
- Communication: Strong written and verbal skills. You build executive-grade PowerPoint independently and present to senior internal and external stakeholders on your own.
- Ownership & Ambiguity: You thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments — proactive, organized, and able to bring structure to complex problems without being told how.
- Eligibility: U.S. person status required. Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance is a plus.
What you get
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees