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About the Role
As Director, you will lead the Forward Deployed team on one or more programs, owning its technical outcomes. You will run the technical side of a program larger than most startups, working directly with the government, customers, and Hadrian’s leadership. The team is early and scope is rapidly growing, with Directors helping to scale the Forward Deployed team and spearhead multi-billion-dollar programs.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical roadmap and delivery, taking programs from initial conversation to production.
- Decide which aspects Opus covers, what gets built, and what is declined, maintaining a high execution bar.
- Ensure program success through effective software and systems, owning hit rate, quality, schedule, and cost.
- Share program learnings with platform teams to enhance Hadrian’s product for all customers.
- Decide which Forward Deployed products should be integrated into Opus.
- Serve as the primary technical contact for customer program leadership, government stakeholders, and prime partners.
- Manage technical reviews and conduct difficult conversations regarding scope and schedule.
- Make critical decisions when scope, schedule, and platform leverage are in conflict.
- Hire and develop engineers, product managers, and designers for the program team.
- Set the team's working standards and guide them through complex scoping challenges.
- Stay hands-on, potentially building v0 of a program or closely reviewing team shipments to ensure quality.
Requirements
- Highly commercial technical leaders with excellent product judgment.
- Demonstrated history of leading engineering and product teams and scaling products from zero to one.
- Strong executive presence with experience managing senior customer relationships and making impactful company commitments.
- Possess strong product taste, understanding what is valuable to build and what constitutes good user experience.
- Shipped end-to-end products multiple times.
- Hands-on technical capabilities, comfortable with architecture, review, and taking ideas from design to delivery.
- AI-native and relentless in its application, demonstrating how AI accelerates discovery and execution.
- Experience rebuilding team workflows around AI.
- Proven ability to hire builders into ambiguous roles and onboard them quickly.
- Driven by the mission of rebuilding the industrial base and delivering at a rapid pace.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or eligible for necessary U.S. Department of State authorizations due to ITAR requirements.
Skills
- AI
- Software Development
- Robotics
- Full-stack Manufacturing
- Technical Leadership
- Product Management
- Engineering Leadership
- Customer Relationship Management
- Architecture
- System Design
Location
- Onsite
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Director
- Senior
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
- 401k
- Relocation support (may be provided based on business need)
- Flexible vacation policy
- Equity
About the Company
- Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America by integrating AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing.
- The company enables aerospace and defense firms to produce critical systems like rockets, satellites, and aircraft faster and at lower costs.
- Recently secured $1.37B in Series D funding at a $7.87B valuation.
- Expanding manufacturing capabilities in welding, casting, forging, electronics, and additive manufacturing.
- Scaling its Factory-as-a-Service platform.
- Backed by prominent investors including JPMorgan Chase, Valor Equity Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, 137 Ventures, Lux Capital, T. Rowe Price, and Morgan Stanley.
- Focused on creating American manufacturing jobs for future generations.
Equal Opportunity
- Hadrian does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, marital status, mental status, physical disability or any other legally protected status.
- The Company provides reasonable accommodations for disabled candidates and employees, including those affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.