Associate General Counsel, Corporate

Hadrian - Manufacturing the Future

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.

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 connection with financing activity and strategic transactions
• Support Board and committee engagement on financing and capital structure matters, including drafting materials, consents, resolutions, and minutes