Technical Program Manager, Hadrian

• 5-8 years in Technical Program Management, Engineering Program Management, or closely related roles supporting software development teams
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and the ability to design and implement scalable processes around it
• Experience driving cross-functional alignment across engineering, product, and operations stakeholders
• Hands-on experience running or improving incident response systems, including postmortem processes
• Strong program tracking and execution discipline: you know how to keep complex initiatives moving without being the bottleneck
• Clear communicator who can operate credibly with both senior leadership and individual contributors
• Comfort with tooling like Jira, GitHub, CI/CD systems, incident tools (PagerDuty, Opsgenie), and Confluence
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
• If you want to design the system, not just work within it, this is the role
• 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

Desirable

• Hadrian's engineering organization is scaling fast, and how we plan, build, ship, and respond to incidents needs to scale with it
• Right now, that's an open problem
• The SDLC processes that will define our engineering culture over the next decade are being built from scratch, and this role owns that work
• As Technical Program Manager, SDLC, you will be the connective tissue across engineering, product, infrastructure, DevOps, and SRE
• You will not manage a team, but you will drive how those teams operate together: from release management and incident response to program tracking and delivery predictability
• This is a high-visibility role with direct access to engineering leadership and meaningful influence over how Hadrian builds software
• Define and implement SDLC processes across engineering teams, building consistency and scalability where little currently exists
• Own change management and release processes end to end
• Drive the incident management lifecycle: response, postmortems, and continuous improvement
• Establish program tracking, reporting, and execution cadence across engineering
• Partner with engineering and product to align roadmap execution and surface delivery risks early
• Identify bottlenecks in development workflows and implement lasting solutions to improve velocity
• Implement and track SLAs/SLOs for delivery and reliability
• Lead cross-functional program execution for critical initiatives
• Drive continuous improvement across tooling, workflows, and engineering operations
• Growth & Trajectory:
• This role is foundational
• As Hadrian's engineering organization grows, so does the scope of the program management function
• The trajectory from this role leads toward ownership of broader engineering operations and org-wide program leadership, with a potential path to Lead TPM or Head of Program Management