Sr. Director, Forward Deployed Software Engineering

The role

You will lead the Forward Deployed team across one or more programs and be responsible for technical outcomes. You will own technical roadmaps, manage executive-level stakeholders, and build and lead teams of engineers, product managers, and designers.

What you will do

• Own the technical roadmap and delivery end-to-end.
• Drive programs from ambiguous first conversations to production deployment.
• Share program learnings across the business to improve the product.
• Serve as primary technical owner for customer program leadership, government stakeholders, and prime partners.
• Lead technical reviews and oversee discussions regarding scope and scheduling.
• Hire and grow engineers, product managers, and designers.
• Remain hands-on to build the early foundation and drive quality.

Required qualifications

• Highly commercial technical leaders with excellent product judgment.
• Demonstrated history leading engineering and product teams and scaling a product from 0-1.
• Executive-level stakeholder management.
• Product taste.
• Hands on technical leader.
• AI-native.
• Track record of building highly productive teams in ambiguous environments.
• Driven by the mission and the tempo.

Nice to have

• Founder or member of a "founding-team"
• Experience owning customer relationships and business decisions.
• Background in aerospace, defense, manufacturing, or anywhere hardware, software, and operations intersect.
• Forward-deployed or solutions leadership at a product company.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
• 401k
• Relocation support may be provided for certain situations
• Flexible vacation policy
• Equity

Before you apply

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, you must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, protected individual as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the

About the company

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America by combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing. They help aerospace and defense companies build mission-critical systems faster and at lower cost.