Program Manager, Workforce Systems

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.

The Role

Hadrian’s Workforce Systems team sits within Workforce Development and owns the operating system that keeps our workforce capable as we scale. This small, focused team builds and maintains the training infrastructure—skills data, documentation standards, LMS content, and OJT programs—that every technician and operator at Hadrian depends on to do their job safely and effectively.

As Hadrian opens new factory locations and onboards new manufacturing capabilities, we need a Program Manager, Workforce Systems who can architect the Capability OS from the ground up, define what good looks like across documentation and capability coding, and own the structural integrity of our training systems as the company scales. This is a builder role: you will create systems that don’t yet exist, in an environment that moves fast, and your work will directly shape how hundreds of Hadrian employees develop and grow.

What You’ll Do

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following:

• Drive foundational design decisions for Hadrian's Capability OS, defining standards for training programs, controlled documentation, skills data, and LMS content as new capabilities come online.

• Lead training program development using a systems engineering mindset — defining requirements, architecting content, and introducing it into production.

• Own the full intake lifecycle for new capabilities, from early conversations with engineering and knowledge governance teams through to fully coded, cross-system deployment across skills matrix, LMS, OJT content, and evaluations.

• Collaborate with operational teams to define role-specific competencies and translate them into structured, measurable training programs that build capability in a repeatable way.

• Own one standard across all factory locations, ensuring documentation, skills data, and system configurations fit into a consistent global framework built to scale without structural rework.

• Monitor the health of the Capability OS, flagging data inconsistencies, documentation gaps, and capacity constraints before they become blockers.

• Partner with product managers as the primary ground-level voice, translating what's breaking or missing in the Capability OS into clear requirements for in-house workforce systems software.

• Mentor the Workforce Systems Analyst in documentation standards, content quality, and systems discipline.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Industrial, Systems, Manufacturing, or Chemical preferred) or a related technical field; candidates with a degree in Technical Writing or a STEM-adjacent discipline and substantial hands-on manufacturing experience will be considered.

• 3+ years of experience in manufacturing, engineering, project management, or a technically grounded Learning & Development environment.

• Demonstrated ownership of building systems—not just operating within them—including defining standards, leading program builds from scratch, and managing documentation in a regulated or quality-driven environment.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to work effectively across engineering, operations, quality, and training teams.

What Will Set You Apart

• Experience in highly regulated industrial environments such as aerospace, welding, NDT, or precision manufacturing.

• Background with AS9100, ISO 9001, NAVSEA, or similar standards-driven documentation frameworks.

• Hands-on experience with Confluence, skills matrices, an LMS platform, or Articulate Rise/SCORM-based e-learning development.

• Track record of building complex, cross-functional programs from conception through launch—and the ability to articulate how you measured whether they worked.

• Startup or high-growth environment experience; demonstrated comfort building in ambiguity at speed.

• A demonstrable interest in the intersection of technical work and training.

• 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

• Equity

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