Program Manager, Workforce Systems

HADRIAN - MANUFACTURING THE FUTURE Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. By combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we help aerospace and defense companies build rockets, satellites, aircraft, ships, and other mission-critical systems up to 10x faster and at significantly lower cost. Following our $1.37B Series D at a $7.87B valuation, Hadrian is rapidly expanding our manufacturing footprint, launching new capabilities across welding, casting, forging, electronics, additive manufacturing, and more, while scaling our Factory-as-a-Service platform to transform how critical products are built. Backed by leading investors including JPMorgan Chase, Valor Equity Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, 137 Ventures, Lux Capital, T. Rowe Price, and Morgan Stanley, we’re building the future of American manufacturing—and looking for exceptional people to help make it happen. If you’re ready to take on the most challenging and rewarding work of your career while helping create American manufacturing jobs for generations to come, you’re exactly who we’re looking for. 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. - Demonstr…