Experiential Marketing Manager

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.

Hadrian is hiring an Experiential Marketing Manager to own every moment where someone meets Hadrian in person. This is the single owner of our events portfolio, from a twelve-person dinner in a private room to a flagship launch built around a working factory floor.

This role exists because physical experience is our highest-conviction channel. The people we most want to reach, the engineers building autonomous systems and the machinists and technicians who run them, do not decide where to spend the next five years of their career because of an ad. They decide after they walk a floor, put their hands on a part, and talk to the people doing the work.

Your job is to engineer that encounter and then run it at scale across multiple cities.

You will inherit a portfolio that is already in motion and under-resourced, and you will own it end to end: strategy, calendar, budget, vendors, production, staffing, and the follow-through that turns a good night into a hire or a customer conversation. This is a builder role with real budget and real autonomy, not a coordinator role executing someone else’s brief.

We are scaling our manufacturing footprint across multiple sites and hiring aggressively into the Bay Area and beyond, and our events calendar is about to go from occasional to continuous. Several things are already live: recruiting-driven dinners and socials, a multi-month brand and talent campaign anchored in the Bay Area, and a set of factory and site moments tied to new capability launches.

The next twelve months include a flagship culminating event whose format is still being decided. You will have a direct hand in that decision rather than inheriting it.

Own the portfolio

• Own the full events and experiential calendar end to end, across owned events, recruiting events, executive hosting, site and factory moments, and our presence at third-party industry conferences.

• Build the portfolio strategy: decide what we show up to, what we build ourselves, what we sponsor, and what we decline, and be able to defend each call on audience and cost.

• Own the events budget, including vendor selection, negotiation, production spend, and reconciliation. Bring a point of view on where a dollar buys more experience.

Build the flagship moments

• Lead production on flagship brand and launch events, including the format decision, venue and site selection, run of show, talent and speaker logistics, and executive prep.

• Design factory and site experiences that let people see the machines and the work. Partner closely with site leadership and operations so that hosting visitors…