Hadrian

Manager, Technical Programs - Strategic + Core

Los Angeles, CA · Full-time

Work authorization requiredDetected 57 days ago

Full-Stack DevelopmentStakeholder ManagementNegotiationForecastingProcurementRoboticsLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

You serve as the translation layer between bespoke customer relationships and standardized factory execution; absorbing customer nuance upstream so production teams receive consistent, reliable inputs regardless of customer.
Success is measured by revenue growth, delivery performance, customer-facing quality, and the cleanliness and accuracy of what enters production.

Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Technical Program Managers and Manufacturing Engineers responsible for delivering complex, long-cycle customer programs across Strategic and Core accounts.
Drive tight alignment between manufacturing, operations, engineering, and commercial teams to drive customer satisfaction, delivery predictability and retention across established platforms and production lifecycles.
Own program status visibility end-to-end.
Own commercial hygiene across your customer base.
Own core quality and delivery workflows for your accounts: PPAP compliance, corrective action management, customer return processes, and work order configuration standards.
Partner with peer TPM leadership to define and maintain factory-facing process standards across the org to ensure consistent production inputs regardless of customer type.
Build scalable processes and tooling to improve throughput, forecasting accuracy, and operational visibility
Identify systemic gaps and collaborate with product and engineering teams to prioritize capability development that improves team efficiency on mature programs.
Build scalable processes and tooling to improve throughput, forecasting accuracy, and operational visibility; optimized for accounts with recurring execution patterns.
Revenue: partner with sales and production teams to drive growth across customer base.

3+ years of direct leadership experience in technical program management, operations, manufacturing, engineering, or related technical industry.
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent practical experience).
5+ years of direct leadership experience in technical program management, operations, manufacturing, engineering, or related technical industry.
Deep experience managing programs within aerospace, defense, or regulated manufacturing environments with long production lifecycles.
Experience owning or standardizing factory-facing delivery processes, translating complex customer requirements into repeatable, scalable internal workflows.
Experience contributing to operational excellence or continuous improvement initiatives on mature, high-volume programs.

Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
Flexible vacation policy
Lead operational reviews, business reviews, and program health assessments with internal stakeholders and external customers.
Customer health: account satisfaction and relationship strength.
Rowe Price, Lux Capital, Founders Fund, and Andreessen Horowitz, our fast-growing team is united around reindustrializing American manufacturing for the 21st century and beyond.

Serve as an escalation point and decision-maker for your customers
building trust with primes and institutional customers, navigating procurement and approval processes, and leveraging those relationships to protect and grow revenue.
Run open order reviews, maintain accurate delivery data, and issue clear, proactive status communications to customers.
Be transparent on what customers need to know while exercising judgment on issues that can be resolved without escalation.
Drive customers to update purchase orders, confirm need dates, and release engineering changes in real time.
When customers are slow to act, apply appropriate pressure through the right relationship channels to get documents updated at the source.
Serve as an escalation point and decision-maker for your customers; building trust with primes and institutional customers, navigating procurement and approval processes, and leveraging those relationships to protect and grow revenue.
By combining advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we are reinventing how America produces its most critical parts.
We're accelerating our mission with the launch of Factory 3 in Mesa, Arizona, a 290,000-square-foot facility creating 350 new jobs.
We are expanding rapidly to support thousands of future hires, launching Hadrian Maritime to expand into naval production, and introducing a Factory-as-a-Service model that delivers complete systems instead of individual parts.

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