People Partner

Hadrian; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life

401k

Relocation support

Flexible vacation policy

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian in Los Angeles is seeking a People Partner to enable engineers, operators, and leaders to perform at their highest levels. You will collaborate with leadership to drive performance, build strong teams, and develop scalable systems that support both human and operational needs.

The role requires balancing strategic and tactical work, focusing on exempt and non-exempt employees in a regulated, high-integrity environment, and partnering with legal on ER matters and investigations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of HR business partner experience.
• Experience supporting exempt and non-exempt populations in manufacturing/engineering environments.
• Thrives in a dynamic, diverse workforce with evolving business needs.
• Understands the impact of people programs on operations and culture.
• Discipline in processes, follow-through, and documentation in a compliance-driven environment.
• Empathy and maturity in sensitive conversations; builds trust across levels.
• Clear communication of decisions and feedback to desk-based and shop-floor employees.
• Handles complex people issues with sound judgment and risk awareness.
• Builds relationships with stakeholders to enable aligned people strategies.
• Strategic advisor to leadership; partners on organization design and talent roadmap.
• Workforce planning, talent strategy, and recruiting collaboration.
• Calibrations, promotions, compensation cycles, and succession planning.
• Partnership with legal on ER cases and investigations.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to leaders to align people strategies with business goals.
• Proactively manage and resolve employee relations issues with high judgment and discretion.
• Support and guide performance management cycles, feedback culture, and development frameworks.
• Equip managers with tools and training to lead teams across all levels.
• Champion initiatives that promote engagement, high trust, and accountability.
• Support org-level transitions such as reorgs and policy rollouts with planning and communication.
• Interpret and apply people policies with fairness and consistency across sites.
• Partner with People Ops and Recruiting to drive scalable programs for the full org.

Skills

HR Business Partner

Employee Relations

Performance Management

Organizational Design

Talent Development

Change Management

Job description

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

We are looking for a People Partner who can play the critical role in enabling both our people and our business to perform at their highest levels. People Partners support a complex and diverse workforce spanning highly specialized engineers, hourly skilled trades, and operational leaders and recognize that different teams require different approaches to thrive.

This People Partner should be an embedded collaborator who works closely with leadership across functions to drive performance, build strong teams, and develop systems that support both the human and operational needs of the business. They need to have a focus on improving talent development, navigating organizational complexity, and supporting a culture of accountability, growth, and high trust.

This role requires someone who can move fluidly between the strategic and the tactical, with a deep understanding of the distinct needs of both exempt and non-exempt employees in a regulated, high-integrity environment. People Partners at Hadrian are both business-minded and people-first — equally comfortable designing scalable programs as they are handling sensitive situations with discretion and care.

What You’ll Do

• Act as a trusted advisor to leaders to align people strategies with business goals.
• Proactively manage and resolve employee relations issues with high judgment and discretion, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and company policies.
• Support and guide the implementation of performance management cycles, feedback culture, and employee development frameworks tailored to diverse workforce needs.
• Equip managers with the tools, training, and guidance needed to effectively lead teams across all levels of the organization, from engineering to the shop floor.
• Champion initiatives that promote employee engagement, high trust, and a sense of belonging — while also reinforcing accountability and performance standards.
• Support org-level transitions such as reorgs, leadership changes, and policy rollouts with clear planning, thoughtful communication, and change enablement.
• Interpret and apply people policies in ways that maintain fairness, clarity, and consistency across sites, shifts, and job types.
• Partner closely with peers in People Ops and Recruiting to drive holistic and scalable people programs that serve the full org.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of relevant HR business partner industry experience.
• Experience supporting both exempt and non-exempt populations, ideally in environments with manufacturing, engineering, or high-compliance requirements.
• Thrives in a dynamic environment with a diverse set of employees and evolving business needs; can flex between tactical support and long-term strategic thinking.
• Understands the business, its drivers, and how people programs impact operations, performance, and culture.
• Brings discipline to processes, follow-through, and documentation - especially in a compliance-driven and audit-sensitive environment.
• Navigates sensitive conversations with empathy, clarity, and maturity; builds trust across all levels of the organization.
• Clearly conveys information, decisions, and feedback in ways that resonate with both desk-based employees and hourly team members on the shop floor.
• Handles complex, gray-area people issues with sound judgment, risk awareness, and an eye for practical solutions.
• Builds strong relationships with stakeholders across the business to enable aligned and executable people strategies.
• Strategic advisor and coach to EPD leadership. Partner with VPs and directors as a thought partner on people implications of their roadmap, and coach managers
• Organizational design and change management
• Workforce planning and talent strategy with recruiting
• Performance, talent, and compensation cycles. Running calibration, promotion, and comp planning for the org, plus succession and identifying critical-role risk
• Partnering with the legal team on ER cases and investigations

What Will Set You Apart

Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills; clear and concise communication style. Comfortable working with large groups and facilitating discussions to create a positive and engaging experience.

Superb organizational skills, with experience triaging many requests and priorities in a high volume, dynamic environment.

Compensation

For this role, the target salary range is $170,000 - $190,000 (actual range may vary based on experience and performance). This is the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Benefits for Full-time Employees

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
• 401k
• Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need.
• Flexible vacation policy
• Equity

ITAR Requirements

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.

Use of AI in hiring

Hadrian uses AI‑assisted tools in our recruiting and hiring processes to help our team work more efficiently. This may include tools that help organize and analyze recruiting data, as well as an AI‑powered notetaker that can record and transcribe interviews and help coordinate feedback. These tools support our team and are not used to make hiring decisions. All candidate evaluations and hiring decisions are performed by humans. If an interview will be recorded, you will be notified in advance and may opt out at any time with no impact on your candidacy. Candidate data processed through these tools is subject to the same protections described in our Privacy Policy.

Hadrian Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the Company’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. The Company does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race inclusive of traits historically associated with race (including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles, such as braids, locks and twists), color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, national origin (including, in California, possession of a drivers license), ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, height or weight, medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, exercise of reproductive rights, any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws, or any combination of the above characteristics. When necessary, the Company also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled candidates and employees, including for candidates or employees who are disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.