Strategic Programs Associate — Aerospace & Defense Ops

Telemetry Today LLC; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life保险

401k

Relocation support

Flexible vacation policy

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian builds autonomous, scalable manufacturing to strengthen the national security supply chain. As a member of the Programs team, you'll own major workstreams within high-impact customer programs and factory stand-ups that enable Hadrian's mission to reindustrialize defense and aerospace.

You'll work with program managers to turn ambiguous problems into structured plans, analyses, and schedules, then build business cases and execution plans that move programs forward.

Qualifications

• 2–6 years in management consulting, federal programs, manufacturing, or operations/strategy roles.
• Experience in aerospace, defense, or industrial environments is preferred.
• Strong written and verbal skills; ability to present to senior stakeholders.
• Analytical self-serve with Excel and AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Define new programs and early execution phases with leadership.
• Join customer discovery sessions and translate into structured requirements.
• Surface risks to cost and schedule and drive mitigation actions.
• Own pieces of factory and production-line stand-ups through reviews.
• Build quantitative models for program decisions: cost, schedule, ROI.

Skills

Program management

Operations

Excel

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

Job description

Hadrian builds autonomous, scalable manufacturing to strengthen the national security supply chain. As a member of the Programs team, you'll own major workstreams within high-impact customer programs and factory stand-ups that enable Hadrian's mission to reindustrialize defense and aerospace.

You'll work with program managers to turn ambiguous problems into structured plans, analyses, and schedules, then build business cases and execution plans that move programs forward.