Business Operations Analyst, Hadrian
Special Projects
Building autonomous factories for aerospace components
Job no longer available
Building autonomous factories for aerospace components
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build the planet's most efficient factory to accelerate a democratic, abundant, spacefaring future.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of professional industry experience
- Ability to self-serve most questions in SQL and knows when to ask for help
- Experience building dashboards/tools that stakeholders actually use; optimizes for decision-making
- Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders; strong culture fit and learns domain context quickly; above-average retention and synthesis
- Validates data; checks for errors; avoids sloppy deliverables
- Owns mistakes and fixes them; escalates issues early
- Proactively identifies and executes high-leverage work
- Understands how real-world ops/program execution maps to data and metrics
- Can move from scrappy v1 to stable v2/v3 with hygiene (docs, checks, owners)
- Interest in Manufacturing & Hadrian: Demonstrates genuine curiosity, motivation for the mission, and ability to learn fast
- To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here
What the job involves
- Collaborate with Special Projects leaders and cross-functional partners to identify the decisions we need to make and what data/tools will support them
- Write and iterate SQL to retrieve and combine data across the Hadrian stack for analysis/reporting (joins, aggregation, sanity checks); document assumptions; coordinate resolution of data quality issues or new requirements with Data Engineering
- Build and iterate dashboards that enable leaders to understand program health and act quickly
- Lead/assist investigations with ambiguous or messy data; validate with stakeholders; summarize findings crisply
- Develop Retool/BI solutions that start scrappy but are built to be maintainable (clear owners, versioning, access controls, documentation, testing/sanity checks, monitoring where applicable) and can be handed off or scaled
- Flags anomalies, hypothesizes root causes, coordinates resolution with Data Eng + stakeholders, and documents the fix/assumption
- Communicate conclusions and recommendations clearly to non-technical and technical audiences; drive next steps
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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