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.

Valued at $1.6B, we’re accelerating our mission with the launch of Factory 3 in Mesa, Arizona—an 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.

The Finance Team operates across corporate development, capital markets, M&A, and investor strategy, applying financial and strategic rigor to initiatives that shape Hadrian’s growth. As a Corporate Development Manager, you will work at the center of the company’s most important decisions, evaluating new business models, partnerships, and acquisitions, building the financial frameworks that inform executive and board discussions, and helping craft the narratives we share with investors and key stakeholders.

• Drive strategic project work spanning transactions, capital markets activities, market research, new business model evaluations, and other business‑critical initiatives
• Develop and own dynamic financial models and analyses
• Create and present high‑quality executive and board‑facing presentations
• Collaborate with internal cross‑functional teams, including Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Legal to ensure alignment on financial goals and performance
• 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

For this role, the target salary range is $150,000 – $185,000 (actual range may vary based on experience).

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.

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

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