Technical Program Manager, SDLC

Hadrian's engineering organization is scaling fast, and how we plan, build, ship, and respond to incidents needs to scale with it. Right now, that's an open problem. The SDLC processes that will define our engineering culture over the next decade are being built from scratch, and this role owns that work.

As Technical Program Manager, SDLC, you will be the connective tissue across engineering, product, infrastructure, DevOps, and SRE. You will not manage a team, but you will drive how those teams operate together: from release management and incident response to program tracking and delivery predictability. This is a high-visibility role with direct access to engineering leadership and meaningful influence over how Hadrian builds software.

If you want to design the system, not just work within it, this is the role.

What You'll Do

• Define and implement SDLC processes across engineering teams, building consistency and scalability where little currently exists

• Own change management and release processes end to end

• Drive the incident management lifecycle: response, postmortems, and continuous improvement

• Establish program tracking, reporting, and execution cadence across engineering

• Partner with engineering and product to align roadmap execution and surface delivery risks early

• Identify bottlenecks in development workflows and implement lasting solutions to improve velocity

• Implement and track SLAs/SLOs for delivery and reliability

• Lead cross-functional program execution for critical initiatives

• Drive continuous improvement across tooling, workflows, and engineering operations, This role is foundational. As Hadrian's engineering organization grows, so does the scope of the program management function. The trajectory from this role leads toward ownership of broader engineering operations and org-wide program leadership, with a potential path to Lead TPM or Head of Program Management.

• 5-8 years in Technical Program Management, Engineering Program Management, or closely related roles supporting software development teams

• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and the ability to design and implement scalable processes around it

• Experience driving cross-functional alignment across engineering, product, and operations stakeholders

• Hands-on experience running or improving incident response systems, including postmortem processes

• Strong program tracking and execution discipline: you know how to keep complex initiatives moving without being the bottleneck

• Clear communicator who can operate credibly with both senior leadership and individual contributors

• Comfort with tooling like Jira, GitHub, CI/CD systems, incident tools (PagerDuty, Opsgenie), and Confluence

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience

What Will Set You Apart

• Experience at a high-growth or scaling startup, ideally in a 0-to-1 process-building context

• Background in DevOps, SRE, or software engineering

• Experience implementing or optimizing CI/CD and release automation

• Data-driven approach to measuring and improving engineering velocity and reliability

• Familiarity with developer productivity tooling

• Experience with compliance or audit frameworks in a technical environment, 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 (https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/?id=ddtc_kb_article_page&sys_id=24d528fddbfc930044f9ff621f961987) .

For this role, the target salary range is TBD (actual range may vary based on experience).

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.