Associate General Counsel, Corporate @ Hadrian

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 Associate General Counsel, Corporate is a central role within Hadrian’s legal organization, reporting directly to the General Counsel and serving as the principal legal partner to Hadrian’s Finance team. This role has primary ownership of Hadrian’s structured finance, capital markets, and SEC-related work streams, and will lead legal strategy and execution across corporate financing, capital structure, and transactional matters as the company scales.

This is a senior, deal-driven role for an experienced finance and capital markets lawyer who wants to own high-impact legal work at a pivotal point in the company’s trajectory.

Serve as lead counsel on revolving credit facilities, term loans, and equipment financing arrangements. Drafting and negotiating loan agreements, security agreements, pledge agreements, guarantees, and UCC collateral packages from the borrower side

Advise on asset-backed and structured finance arrangements, including sale-leaseback transactions, equipment ABS, and construction financing supporting Hadrian’s factory build-out program

Draft and negotiate intercreditor arrangements and subordination agreements as the capital structure grows across multiple lenders and facilities

Support the Treasury function on credit agreements and monitoring covenant compliance under the company’s credit facilities and indentures

Manage and coordinate outside counsel on financing transactions to ensure cost-effective execution on schedule to support construction and operational timelines

Prepare deal term summaries and risk analyses for the General Counsel, CFO, and senior leadership in connection with financing transactions

Build and maintain internal playbooks, templates, and closing checklists for recurring financing transaction types

Lead and document preferred stock financings, including drafting and negotiating term sheets, stock purchase agreements, investor rights agreements, voting agreements, co-sale rights, and rights of first refusal across Series rounds

Advise on convertible note documentation for bridge financings between priced rounds, including valuation caps, discount rates, and most-favored-nation provisions

Maintain cap table hygiene in coordination with stock administration, including tracking option grants, warrant issuances, and equity conversions across financing rounds

Advise on secondary transactions and employee liquidity programs, including tender offer structuring and mechanics, 409A valuation implications of secondary pricing, and coordination with the Board on tender offer approvals and information rights waivers

Draft and maintain Board and committee charters, governance guidelines, D&O questionnaires, and corporate policies

Manage legal entity governance and subsidiary compliance, including corporate filings and intercompany arrangements

Advise on fiduciary duty considerations and related party transaction analysis in…