Manager of Early Career Recruiting, Hadrian
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Building autonomous factories for aerospace components
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Building autonomous factories for aerospace components
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build the planet's most efficient factory to accelerate a democratic, abundant, spacefaring future.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of university or early career recruiting experience
- 2+ years of experience managing leads or recruiting managers
- Proven success building or scaling early career and internship programs in high-growth environments
- Demonstrated ability to lead, develop, and hold a team accountable to goals and performance
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities across a growing function
- Experience partnering with diverse stakeholders including technical, operations, and senior leadership teams
- Seasonal travel for campus and recruiting events
- Occasional evening or weekend work may be required for events
Desirable
- Experience building partnerships with trade schools, community colleges, and technical training programs
- Background in technical recruiting or familiarity with manufacturing, aerospace, or engineering environments
- Track record of hiring and developing recruiting talent in a fast-paced or startup environment
- Demonstrated success designing recruiting processes and programs that scale
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills with the ability to represent Hadrian's mission authentically at all levels
- Data-driven mindset with experience using insights to shape team strategy and report to leadership
What the job involves
- As Hadrian's first Manager, Early Career Recruiting, you will build and lead our early talent function from the ground up
- This is a true 0 to 1 leadership opportunity where you will design the strategy, hire and develop a team, and establish the programs that will bring the next generation of builders into Hadrian
- You will create lasting partnerships with top universities, trade schools, and community programs while collaborating closely with engineering and factory operations leaders to scale a best-in-class internship and early career program
- Build, lead, and grow a team of early career recruiters and program leads, providing coaching, direction, and development
- Design and execute Hadrian's early career recruiting strategy across universities, trade schools, and community programs for both technical and operational talent
- Develop and own long-term partnerships with universities, trade schools, student organizations, and career centers
- Partner with senior leaders and hiring managers across engineering, operations, and manufacturing to define workforce pipeline needs and hiring goals
- Oversee the full candidate lifecycle ensuring a high-quality, consistent experience from first touch through onboarding
- Plan and lead campus and trade school recruiting events, information sessions, and brand-building activities
- Build and maintain proactive talent pipelines for technical and operational roles
- Define the recruiting metrics and reporting infrastructure to measure program effectiveness and team performance
- Develop scalable processes, tools, and playbooks that support a growing early career function
- Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership on early career talent trends, market insights, and workforce planning
Our take
Hadrian is an industrial automation company that creates autonomous factories for aerospace components. Founded by a former history student, the inspiration for Hadrian was the notion that throughout history, empires begin to fall when they outsource their core industries to lower-cost countries, resulting in internal stagnation and mass unemployment.
To counter this historic trend, founder Chris Power founded Hadrian, which uses machine learning to automate the processes of component factories. Power honed in on key US industries that were lacking in scalable solutions. Aerospace and defence is one area in which the USA relies on boutique experts who lack the manpower to build at scale. This factory automation solution addresses bottlenecks in manufacturing aerospace components that slow down progress due to owner-operated machine shops.
With investment from early Facebook and Airbnb investors Andreessen Horowitz, Hadrian is setting a precedent for a new era of machine work innovation. Hadrian’s main challenge will be convincing smaller manufacturers in the sector to embrace the precision and time-saving benefits of automation. With two factories now operational, Hadrian is using funding to continue its team and product growth, so as to meet the growing demand for component manufacturing.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2025
$260m
SERIES C
Feb 2024
$93.6m
SERIES B
Total funding: $490.6m
Company benefits
- 100% coverage of platinum medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees 401k
- Relocation stipend if you’re moving from outside of LA
- Flexible vacation policy
Company HQ
Hermosa Beach, CA
Leadership
Chris Power
(CEO & CPO)Previously Managing Partner at ADSC, Contributor and Advisor at Open Lunar Foundation and Head of Growth at Ento.com.
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