Program Manager
Program Manager at Hadrian scoping, executing, and owning customer programs and factory stand-ups for autonomous aerospace/defense manufacturing, using PMO systems like Earned Value Management and Integrated Master Schedules.
- Compensation
- $199K–$280K / yr
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Category
- Project management
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 6+ years in management consulting, federal programs, manufacturing, or operations/strategy roles
- Bachelor's in Business, Economics, Operations, Engineering, or related field
- Willingness to travel 20–40% domestically
- Direct work in aerospace and defense manufacturing with Primes, OEMs, Tier 1/2 suppliers, or large industrial programs
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to build executive-grade PowerPoint independently
- U.S. person status (ITAR requirement)
Nice to have
- Experience within aerospace, defense, or industrial environments
- Master's degree
- Cross-functional experience across Operations, Finance, Engineering, Program Management, or Business teams
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
Full description
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. Rowe Price, and Morgan Stanley, we’re building the future of American manufacturing—and looking for exceptional people to help make it happen.
If you’re ready to take on the most challenging and rewarding work of your career while helping create American manufacturing jobs for generations to come, you’re exactly who we’re looking for.
The Role:
Hadrian builds autonomous, scalable manufacturing to strengthen the national security supply chain. As Program Manager, customer deployments, you’ll scope, execute, and ultimately own the high-impact customer programs and factory stand-ups necessary to enable Hadrian’s mission to reindustrialize defense and aerospace.
You’ll turn ambiguous customer problem sets into structured analyses, program strategies, and business cases that drive go/no-go decisions and execution. Applying first-principles thinking, you’ll produce the executive-ready deliverables that move programs forward: customer proposals, pricing analyses, execution plans, and schedules. You’ll also run and execute these programs with direct P&L responsibility.
You’ll work directly with the CEO and senior leaders, connecting shop-floor reality, executive priorities, and government opportunities to define and launch new programs across the U.S. defense industrial base. We’re looking for someone who can own outcomes and can seamlessly move from a conversation with a C—suite customer to making sure your colleagues complete their badge paperwork.
What You’ll DoProgram Development & Scoping
- 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