Business Operations Analyst, Special Projects

Hadrian - Manufacturing the Future

Hadrian is building autonomous factories that help aerospace and defense companies manufacture rockets, satellites, jets, and ships up to 10x faster and up to 2x cheaper. By combining advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we are reinventing how America produces its most critical parts.

We’re accelerating our mission with the launch of Factory 3 in Mesa, Arizona, a 290,000-square-foot facility creating 350 new jobs. We are expanding rapidly to support thousands of future hires, launching Hadrian Maritime to expand into naval production, and introducing a Factory-as-a-Service model that delivers complete systems instead of individual parts.

Hadrian is backed by leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Lux Capital, Founders Fund, and Andreessen Horowitz, our fast-growing team is united around reindustrializing American manufacturing for the 21st century and beyond.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with Special Projects leaders and cross-functional partners to identify the decisions we need to make and what data/tools will support them

• Write and iterate SQL to retrieve and combine data across the Hadrian stack for analysis/reporting (joins, aggregation, sanity checks); document assumptions; coordinate resolution of data quality issues or new requirements with Data Engineering

• Build and iterate dashboards that enable leaders to understand program health and act quickly

• Lead/assist investigations with ambiguous or messy data; validate with stakeholders; summarize findings crisply

• Develop Retool/BI solutions that start scrappy but are built to be maintainable (clear owners, versioning, access controls, documentation, testing/sanity checks, monitoring where applicable) and can be handed off or scaled

• Flags anomalies, hypothesizes root causes, coordinates resolution with Data Eng + stakeholders, and documents the fix/assumption

• Communicate conclusions and recommendations clearly to non-technical and technical audiences; drive next steps

Preferred Background:

• 2+ years of professional industry experience

• Ability to self-serve most questions in SQL and knows when to ask for help

• Experience building dashboards/tools that stakeholders actually use; optimizes for decision-making

• Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders; strong culture fit and learns domain context quickly; above-average retention and synthesis

• Validates data; checks for errors; avoids sloppy deliverables

• Owns mistakes and fixes them; escalates issues early

• Proactively identifies and executes high-leverage work

• Understands how real-world ops/program execution maps to data and metrics

• Can move from scrappy v1 to stable v2/v3 with hygiene (docs, checks, owners)

• Interest in Manufacturing & Hadrian: Demonstrates genuine curiosity, motivation for the mission, and ability to learn fast

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees

• 401k

• Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need.

• Flexible vacation policy

ITAR Requirements

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. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Hadrian Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the Company’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. The Company does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race inclusive of traits historically associated with race (including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles, such as braids, locks and twists), color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, national origin (including, in California, possession of a drivers license), ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, height or weight, medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, exercise of reproductive rights, any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws, or any combination of the above characteristics. When necessary, the Company also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled candidates and employees, including for candidates or employees who are disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.