Strategic Finance and Corporate Development Manager

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.

At Hadrian, the Strategic Finance team is a Swiss Army knife. We’re a high-impact group that partners directly with the CFO and executive team on company-defining initiatives. Our team works across corporate development, capital markets, M&A, and investor storytelling, applying financial and strategic skills to projects that will shape Hadrian’s growth trajectory. As a Strategic Finance Manager, you will operate at the center of our most critical decisions. You’ll evaluate new business models, partnerships, and acquisitions; build the financial frameworks that guide executive and board discussions; and help craft the narratives we share with investors and stakeholders.

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  Drive strategic project work spanning transactions, capital markets activities, market research, new business model evaluations, and other business critical initiatives

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  Develop and own dynamic financial models and analyses

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  Create and present high-quality Exec and Board-facing presentations

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  Collaborate with internal cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Legal to ensure to ensure alignment on financial goals and performance

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  Serve as a partner to FP&A, aligning Special Projects and M&A models with broader corporate financial and business reporting activities

• 5-7 years of experience across strategic finance, venture capital, private / growth equity, private credit, investment banking, consulting, strategic finance, corporate development, and/or strategy & operations

• Experience with project finance, capital project and infrastructure financial analysis, and large-scale, high dollar investment projects

• Experience with a variety of deal structures, including M&A, carve-outs, equity investments, and joint ventures

• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills, including experience building complex financial models from scratch

• Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to work cross-functionally and present to leadership

• High level of ownership and curiosity; thrives in fast-moving, scrappy environments

• Experience working in a scaling manufacturing or hardware-focused company

• Experience drafting materials in deal negotiations, such as commercial contracts or partnership proposals, with high attention to detail

• Background in M&A due diligence, transaction structuring, and financial modeling

• Intermediate accounting knowledge

• Experience with SQL

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.

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.