Hadrian is rebuilding America’s industrial strength, rapidly scaling our country’s manufacturing output through advanced software, automation, and human skill. Backed by a16z, Founders Fund and Lux.
About the role
This is a dual-front role built for someone with 15-20+ years inside the defense budget process. The core of the job is shaping the budget build inside the Pentagon and OMB, and engaging the process by which Congress sets the defense topline — a process driven heavily by congressional leadership, Armed Services Committee leaders, and the Budget Committees. This role also requires close fluency in how funding is actually spent once it's appropriated — apportionment, allocation, obligation, and execution. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 15+ years alternating between the legislative and executive branches of the defense budget process, as well as an understanding of how these processes influence the defense industries’ business decisions and legislative engagement
- A track record of driving institutional change that only works with sustained relationships across the Pentagon and the Hill — the kind of multi-year advocacy that, for example, helped push the Department toward audit readiness
- A level of recognized subject-matter authority such that outside institutional reviews of the defense budget process — for example, the PPBE Reform Commission — have sought your input directly
- Experience translating a defense contractor's long-range business plan into federal fiscal-policy advocacy
- A track record of being the person budget staff, defense committee staff, and financial managers call first — someone whose read of the budget, the policy, and the politics behind it is trusted at face value on both sides of the branch divide
- Deep, working familiarity with the congressional budget committees, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Government Accountability Office, and the Congressional Research Service (CRS), and how their analysis shapes appropriations and NDAA outcomes
More about this role
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.
This is a dual-front role built for someone with 15-20+ years inside the defense budget...
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