Hadrian

Hadrian

Director of Federal Programs, Additive Manufacturing

Los Angeles, CA · Director · Contract

Work authorization required$200k-$250kDetected 52 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentPipeline ManagementForecastingSupply ChainRoboticsLeadershipCollaboration

About the role

  • Hadrian is backed by leading investors including T.
  • 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.
  • This is the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.

Responsibilities

  • Hadrian Federal Team Partnership: Operate as the dedicated AM partner inside the Hadrian Federal team's customer motion, jointly planning account strategy, sharing customer intelligence, coordinating on pursuits, and aligning on capture priorities.
  • Prime Contractor Capture: Develop and lead capture campaigns with defense primes (Lockheed Martin, RTX, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, GE Aerospace, Pratt and Whitney) where federal programs flow through prime contracts.
  • Drive shaping activity early in the acquisition cycle to influence requirements, evaluation criteria, and competitive positioning.
  • AM Project Call and OTA Response Ownership: Own Hadrian AM's response to AM-focused project calls and RFPs issued by America Makes and other Manufacturing USA institutes, as well as AM-specific OTA solicitations across relevant consortia and rapid contracting vehicles, including NSTXL-managed vehicles, AM-focused consortia, and other DoD OT pathways.
  • Maintain Hadrian's membership posture, working group participation, and visibility into upcoming open project calls, rapid innovation calls, and directed project calls funded by OSD ManTech and service ManTech offices.
  • Lead opportunity qualification, teaming decisions, solution architecture coordination with AM technical leaders, and proposal development through award, working in collaboration with the Hadrian Federal team to submit.
  • The Hadrian Federal team owns broader federal proposals outside of AM-specific scope.
  • Capture Lifecycle Execution: Run disciplined capture across the pursuit lifecycle, including opportunity qualification, gate reviews, customer call plans, win strategy development, competitive analysis, teaming decisions, pricing strategy support, color team reviews, and B&P investment recommendations.
  • Build AM-specific capture rigor that plugs into Hadrian's existing federal motion, including pursuit standards, gate review templates, capture artifacts, and proposal libraries.
  • AM Proposal Leadership: Lead proposal strategy and technical narrative development for AM-specific pursuits in partnership with AM leadership, Engineering, Quality, Materials and Process, Supply Chain, Finance, and Legal.

Nice to have

  • Direct relationships with flag, SES, SPE, and senior acquisition leadership across NAVSEA, AFRL, SOCOM, DIU, OSD, MDA, or equivalent agencies.
  • Familiarity with hypersonics, propulsion, naval and submarine industrial base, sUAS, and other priority DoD modernization portfolios where AM is a critical enabler.
  • Experience navigating congressional engagement, appropriations cycles, and industrial base policy (DPA, DIB modernization, organic industrial base).
  • We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future.
  • ITAR Requirements
  • Learn more about the ITAR here.
  • Hadrian Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
  • It is the Company's policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees.

Skills

  • Senior military operational background (O-6 or above) with subsequent industry capture, BD, or program leadership experience.
  • Experience operating as the business unit or product line representative inside an established federal BD or capture organization.

Compensation

  • For this role, the target salary range is $200,000 - $250,000 (actual range may vary based on experience).
  • This is the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.
  • We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future.
  • An employee's pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
  • Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need.
  • ITAR Requirements

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Present AM pipeline health, risks, and resource needs to the VP of AM and the executive team on a recurring cadence.
  • Benefits for Full-time Employees
  • When necessary, the Company also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled candidates and employees, including for candidates or employees who are disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.

Company info

  • 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.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U
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