Employee Experience Program Manager

Employee Experience Program 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. The Role: As our Employee Experience Programs Manager, you’ll serve as both a culture carrier and a rigorous program operator – the architect of the end-to-end employee experience who owns the programs, rituals, and systems that shape how employees engage with the company across the full employee lifecycle, from onboarding through development, engagement, and retention. You’ll design scalable frameworks that strengthen clarity, connection, belonging, and alignment, ensuring our culture is consistently experienced, not just defined. This role sits at the intersection of employee engagement, program management, internal communications, and culture-building. You’ll operate across strategy and execution simultaneously: building the operational backbone that makes programs run reliably at scale, while maintaining the creative and human sensibility that makes them land authentically. You’ll thrive here if you are a thoughtful, action-oriented builders who care deeply about people and organizational culture and who believe great companies are intentionally designed through both systems and experiences. What You’ll Do - Act as our culture carrier, translate company values into tangible programs, rituals, and moments that employees feel day-to-day; champion what makes our culture distinctly ours and protect it as we scale - Design and run a rolling 12-month employee experience programming calendar, ensuring every month has at least one intentional, meaningful moment that reinforces connection, belonging, and company pride - Own end-to-end production of monthly All Hands; from storytelling arc and run-of-show to speaker prep and post-event feedback; ensure every session sends people away more aligned than they arrived - Lead planning and execution of company offsites, team events, and office presence programming - designed experiences employees want to show up for, not mandated ones - Own the swag strategy end-to-end; sourcing, vendors, quality bar, and distribution cadence; new hire kits, milestone gifts, event giveaways, and seasonal moments that feel personal, not transactional - Drive operational excellence across all programs by building the systems, calendars, and workflows that enable consistent delivery at scale; own the EX budget (events, swag, offsite, recognition) and manage it with rigor - Measure what matters; own engagement metrics, run pulse surveys, synthesize findings into clear recommendations, and build a feedback loop that continuously improves what we ship What We’re Looking For - 8+ years of experience in employee experience, people programs, internal communications, or program management in high-growth environments - Proven track record of designing and delivering high-quality, scalable employee programs and experiences - from the whiteboard concept through successful adoption - Strong program and project management fundamentals: you can hold a complex calendar of overlapping initiatives, manage dependencies, flag risks early, and execute with p ... (truncated, view full listing at source)