Program Manager

The role

The Program Manager scopes, executes, and owns high-impact customer programs and factory stand-ups. You will turn ambiguous problems into structured analyses, program strategies, and business cases to drive execution.

What you will do

• Define new programs and early execution phases
• Run customer discovery, working meetings, and site visits
• Surface cost, schedule, and delivery risks and drive mitigation plans
• Own factory and production-line stand-ups end to end
• Build quantitative models for roadmaps and investment cases
• Support proposal development and capture management
• Own program financials including budget, cost-to-complete, and margin
• Drive execution across engineering, operations, supply chain, and software
• Stand up and scale PMO systems
• Lead program reviews, status updates, and risk reporting

Required qualifications

• 6+ years in management consulting, federal programs, manufacturing, or operations/strategy roles
• Bachelor’s in Business, Economics, Operations, Engineering, or a related field
• Willingness to travel 20–40% domestically
• U.S. person status required

Nice to have

• Master’s degree
• Direct work in aerospace and defense manufacturing
• Cross-functional experience across Operations, Finance, Engineering, Program Management, or Business teams
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• U.S. person status required
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual to conform to ITAR

About the company

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America by combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing.