Hadrian

Manager, Technical Programs - Growth

Los Angeles, CA · Full-time

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Full-Stack DevelopmentRoboticsLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

Success in this role is measured by revenue growth, delivery performance, customer-facing quality, and the cleanliness and speed of what enters production across a dynamic, fast-changing account base.

Lead and grow a team of Technical Program Managers and Manufacturing Engineers by setting clear priorities, developing individuals, and maintaining high performance across an expanding portfolio.
Drive tight alignment between manufacturing, operations, engineering, and commercial teams to convert new customer commitments into successful, scalable execution.
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 and iterate on lightweight, high-velocity processes and tooling that enable your team to manage fast-moving programs without sacrificing quality or customer trust.
Identify capability gaps and partner with product and engineering teams to prioritize investments that unlock new customer segments or deal types.
Revenue: partner with sales and production teams to drive growth across customer base.
Hadrian is building autonomous factories that help aerospace and defense companies manufacture rockets, satellites, jets, and ships up to 10x faster and up to 2x cheaper.

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.
Experience owning or standing up factory-facing delivery processes in fast-moving environments.
Ability to translate complex, rapidly evolving customer requirements into consistent internal workflows.
Experience implementing digital manufacturing workflows, automation initiatives, or scalable onboarding processes.

Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
Flexible vacation policy
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
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 unresponsive, escalate through the right channels early.
Lead high-touch operational and business reviews with customers
Serve as an escalation point and decision-maker for your customers; operating with urgency and flexibility across varying levels of customer maturity and engagement.
Lead high-touch operational and business reviews with customers; communicating with the clarity and pace appropriate to fast-moving commercial relationships.
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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