Recruiting Programs Manager

Recruiting Programs Manager 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. Your Role: As our first Recruiting Programs Manager, you’ll drive the end-to-end delivery of the programs and operational frameworks that enable our recruiting team to hire at scale. Sitting at the intersection of Recruiting, People Ops, Finance, and the broader business, you’ll translate ambitious hiring goals into structured, executable programs, and build the operating cadence that keeps our team aligned, accountable, and moving fast. This role is about bringing clarity to ambiguity and enabling our recruiters to do their best work. You’ll serve as a key partner to our recruiting team, designing and operationalizing the programs, processes, and enablement resources that allow recruiters and hiring managers to perform with consistency and confidence. You’ll build and maintain dashboards that give the recruiting team and leadership clear, real-time visibility into pipeline health, funnel performance, and hiring outcomes, using data to drive decisions and continuously improve how we hire. You’ll also work closely with our Recruiting Systems Product Manager to configure our ATS and data flows to fit our evolving needs, owning data integrity and ensuring our systems reflect the way we actually work. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role for someone who thrives at the intersection of program management, recruiter enablement, and recruiting operations. The ideal candidate is a curious, humble, action-oriented builder who cares deeply about people, process, and performance. What You’ll Do - Drive end-to-end delivery of highest-priority recruiting programs; from discovery and design through execution, iteration, and long-term scaling (e.g., headcount planning, interview operations, offer workflows, onboarding handoffs) - Lead recruiter enablement; develop clear training, documentation, and onboarding resources that help recruiters and hiring managers operate with consistency, confidence, and a high bar for quality - Drive process analysis and design, identify opportunities for standardization, automation, and scalability across recruiting and hiring operations - Partner cross-functionally with Recruiting, People Ops, Finance, and People Partners to align on priorities, translate hiring goals into executable plans, and deliver programs that directly influence business outcomes - Define and own recruiting metrics and reporting; build and maintain dashboards for both the recruiting team and leadership that surface actionable insights on pipeline health, funnel performance, time-to-fill, and hiring capacity; use data to drive decisions, identify gaps, and continuously improve our hiring outcomes - Work closely with our Recruiting Systems Product Manager to configure our ATS and data flows to fit our operational needs, owning data integrity and ensuring our systems reflect the way we actually work - Lead large-scale change management efforts across the recruiting team, ensuring new programs, tools, and processes land with adoption and lasting impact - Oversee candidate and ... (truncated, view full listing at source)