Manager, Onboarding and New Hire Experience

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 recently raised $260 million dollar Series C to accelerate this mission. We are excited to be launching a new Factory in Mesa, Arizona, a 270,000 square foot facility that will create 350 new jobs immediately. We are opening a new headquarters to support thousands of future hires, launching Hadrian Maritime to serve naval production, and introducing a Factory-as-a-Service model that delivers complete systems instead of individual parts.

Hadrian works with startups, Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers, and major defense contractors across space, shipbuilding, and aviation to scale production, reduce costs, and accelerate delivery on mission-critical programs. We are backed by leading investors including Lux Capital, Founders Fund, and Andreessen Horowitz. Our fast-growing team is united by a shared mission to reindustrialize American manufacturing for the 21st century and beyond!

The Role

At Hadrian, we are building the teams and systems that power the future of aerospace and defense manufacturing. As we scale rapidly across engineering, manufacturing, and business functions, an exceptional onboarding journey is essential to our success. The onboarding experience is the first signal of how we work, how we care for our people, and how fast we expect them to ramp. We need a strategic builder who can design and lead an onboarding ecosystem that sets every new hire up for long term success.

We are hiring a Manager, Onboarding and New Hire Experience to lead the strategy, design, and delivery of a high quality onboarding journey that extends far beyond Day 1. This role will own the full onboarding lifecycle, from pre boarding through the first 90 days, and will create specialized tracks that immerse new employees into their functional homes. This includes partnering with leaders in Engineering, Manufacturing, Sales, Business Operations, and People to ensure that every new hire receives the tools, context, and support they need to ramp quickly and confidently.

This is a high impact role for a strong program owner who is energized by building from zero to one, collaborating across the company, and improving how we welcome and empower talent at scale. While this role is a team of one to start, it requires someone who can think at the systems level, operate with independence, and deliver both strategy and execution in a fast paced, high growth environment.

What You’ll Do

• Own the full onboarding journey for all new hires, from pre boarding through first 90 days.

• Design and lead scalable onboarding programs that support rapid growth across all teams.

• Build role based and function specific onboarding tracks in partnership with Engineering, Manufacturing, Sales, and Business leaders.

• Facilitate New Hire Orientation, coordinate leader involvement, and ensure a strong Day 1 and first week experience.

• Create clear onboarding documentation, guides, templates, notifications, and manager playbooks.

• Partner with Recruiting, People Operations, IT, Facilities, Finance, and People Partners to ensure frictionless new hire readiness.

• Track and analyze onboarding effectiveness by measuring feedback, ramp milestones, and time to productivity.

• Use insights to adjust and improve programs, tools, and processes over time.

• Support onboarding readiness for new facilities, new functions, and new operational models as the company expands.

• Coach hiring managers on best practices for integrating and ramping new hires.

• Identify gaps in onboarding workflows and lead cross functional solutions that improve speed and quality.

What We’re Looking For

• At least 5 years of experience in onboarding, people programs, learning and development, or HR operations with significant ownership of new hire experiences or program design.

• Proven ability to design and run multi month onboarding programs across varied functions.

• Experience building programs in a high growth, fast changing environment where clarity does not always exist and iteration is constant.

• Strong facilitation, presentation, and communication skills with the ability to engage diverse audiences across levels and job families.

• Ability to influence leaders and work cross functionally to create alignment, solve problems, and drive adoption of new processes.