Technical Program Manager, Hadrian
Infrastructure and Platform
$200-250k
More information about location
Building autonomous factories for aerospace components
Open for applications
Building autonomous factories for aerospace components
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$200-250k
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
- Strong program management fundamentals (scheduling, dependencies, risk)
- Excellent stakeholder management across engineering, operations, and executive levels
- Clear written and verbal communication, especially for technical audiences
- Experience managing complex technical programs with multiple dependencies
- Ability to build consensus and drive decisions without direct authority
- Experience with JIRA, Confluence, and agile methodologies
- Understanding of capacity planning and resource optimization
- Comfort with ambiguity and changing priorities
- Proven track record delivering large-scale technical projects
- Ability to translate between technical and business stakeholders
What the job involves
- Drive infrastructure execution at Hadrian as our Technical Program Manager. You'll coordinate complex initiatives across Infrastructure, IT, Data Engineering, and Security teams. Working across multiple directors and their teams, you'll translate technical roadmaps into clear execution plans, manage dependencies across 4+ factory sites, and ensure delivery against commitments
- This role demands strong program management fundamentals, excellent stakeholder coordination, and enough technical understanding to ask the right questions—not to design solutions. You'll be the connective tissue enabling our multi-site scale-up
- Execute against the infrastructure, IT and data team's quarterly roadmap and OKRs (owned by respective Directors)
- Coordinate cross-functional initiatives across Infrastructure, IT, Data Engineering, and Security organizations
- Plan and coordinate complex technical initiatives (cloud migrations, Kubernetes rollouts, edge deployments)
- Facilitate cross-functional planning between Infrastructure, Software, Manufacturing, and Data teams
- Build and maintain project tracking systems with clear visibility into status, risks, and blockers
- Lead capacity planning for compute, storage, networking across multiple sites
- Drive infrastructure, IT, and data cost optimization initiatives with Finance
- Run vendor evaluation processes for critical infrastructure and IT purchases
- Create and maintain architecture decision records (ADRs) and technical documentation
- Facilitate RFC (Request for Comments) processes for major technical decisions
- Manage stakeholder communication with clear, concise status updates
- Identify and mitigate program risks across dependencies and timelines
- Build tools and automation to improve program management efficiency
- Support compliance initiatives with documentation and process design
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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