Contracts Manager

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 Role:

The Contracts Manager owns the formation, negotiation, and administration of Hadrian’s agreements on both sides of the business: the agreements through which Hadrian sells to its customers, and the agreements through which it buys from its supply base. Hadrian’s contracting function is scaling alongside its factories. This seat will help design the workflows, systems, and controls that move agreements from intake to signature across sales and procurement, and is measured on the cycle time it removes.

• Hadrian supplies precision components to the defense and aerospace primes and to commercial space and aviation customers. This seat negotiates and administers those customer agreements, including long-term supply agreements, master agreements, customer purchase orders, and Hadrian’s quote terms. Many arrive carrying FAR, DFARS, export control, and data rights requirements from the prime contract. The seat confirms Hadrian can perform them and flows them correctly

• Scaling Hadrian’s manufacturing footprint requires the purchase of machine tools, automation cells, raw material, castings and forgings, outside processing, tooling, and software. This seat owns Hadrian’s purchase order terms and the category addenda supporting them, adjudicates supplier markups, and serves as the contracts partner to Supply Chain and Procurement into its supply base.

What You’ll Do

• Own assigned customer and supplier agreements from intake through closeout: pre-award review, negotiation, award, acceptance, performance, modification, renewal, and closeout. Administer Hadrian’s subcontracts under prime contractor terms. Track deliverables, milestones, acceptance, and notice dates against each contract, and escalate noncompliance before it becomes a dispute.

• Draft, revise, and interpret long-term supply agreements, master agreements, subcontracts, purchase orders, quote terms, non-disclosure agreements, statements of work, amendments, and change orders. Produce clear, defensible language on Hadrian’s paper and precise redlines on the counterparty’s.

• Digest the FAR, DFARS, and customer-specific clauses the primes flow down to Hadrian through customer agreements and purchase orders. Determine which obligations Hadrian must carry, which must flow to its suppliers, and which do not apply. Apply them to the correct vendor agreements order by order and maintain the record of which clauses attached where. Challenge flowdowns that exceed what the prime contract requires or what a commercial supplier should reasonably accept.

• Draft and administer Hadrian’s terms for subcontracts, suppliers, and capital equipment, including acceptance, warranty, title and risk of loss, and milestone payment structures. Verify that the correct Hadrian terms and category addenda attach to every order, screen order-face fields for the completeness downstream controls depend on, and confirm order terms do not conflict with the governing master agreement

• Review customer terms, purchase orders, and long-term agreements from the primes against Hadrian’s established positions, and identify the pricing, liability, intellectual property, and data rights terms that require escalation. Adjudicate markups returned against Hadrian’s purchase order and quote terms under the playbook, and determine acceptance within delegated authority. Prepare the response setting out Hadrian’s position in terms the counterparty can act on.

• Own the portfolio end to end across customers, suppliers, and prospective partners. Apply the review checklist to every inbound form, issue Hadrian’s standard redline, and distribute Hadrian’s form on request. Determine whether a mutual or unilateral instrument is appropriate and which party is protected. Approve deviations within the playbook, negotiate to closure, and track expirations.

• Maintain the contract record in accordance with company and regulatory requirements. Define and enforce the contract file standard and naming conventions, own the central repository, and administer records retention. Drive discovery and reconciliation of legacy agreements to completion.

• Own the contract lifecycle platform and serve as first-line support for its users. Build and maintain workflows, approval routing, templates, and form fields, and map approval chains to the delegation of authority. Direct the implementation partner through user acceptance testing and go-live. Own the enhancement backlog, integrations, permissions, and access reviews, and enforce the export control handling gate before any upload.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, contracts management, supply chain management, finance, law, or a related field.

• 5+ years in contract management, contract administration, or procurement contracting in aerospace, defense, or advanced manufacturing, including full lifecycle responsibility for customer and supplier agreements personally negotiated and administered.

• Experience negotiating from the supplier’s side of the table with prime contractors or major OEMs, including long-term supply agreements, customer terms and purchase orders, and the pricing, delivery, and liability commitments behind them

• Substantial experience administering purchase orders, supplier terms, and subcontracts in a manufacturing, industrial, or hardware environment, including capital equipment or major asset purchases and the acceptance, installation, and milestone payment structures behind them.

• Working command of the FAR and DFARS clauses primes flow down to their suppliers. The candidate understands how prime-tier subcontracts and purchase orders are formed, administered, and modified, and how the prime’s contract type shapes the terms it flows down.

• Demonstrated record of negotiating complex agreements to closure across price, terms, schedule, and risk allocation. The candidate has authored language issued under their organization’s name, not solely revised the work of others, across supply agreements, master agreements, basic ordering agreements, subcontracts, purchase orders, non-disclosure agreements, change orders, and license agreements.

• A demonstrated record of building contracting infrastructure rather than inheriting it. The candidate has built or materially improved a playbook, position set, or clause library, established workflows and an intake process, and achieved measurable reduction in contract cycle time on both the sales and procurement sides.

• Hands-on ownership of a contract lifecycle management system as an administrator, including workflow configuration, templates, permissions, and reporting, and advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel.

• The candidate interprets legal language, assesses risk, and translates contractual requirements into guidance that engineering, program, and operations teams can act upon. The candidate has operated with delegated authority and recognizes when a matter falls outside the playbook.

• Exceptional written work product. The record created in this seat is subject to customer audit, government review, and litigation, and a redline issued from it constitutes Hadrian’s position until corrected.

• Exceptional organizational discipline under volume, comfort with ambiguity, and a bias toward decision.

What Will Set You Apart

• Master’s degree, MBA, JD, or graduate degree in business, law, or supply chain management.

• Professional certification such as NCMA’s Certified Commercial Contracts Manager (CCCM), Certified Professional Contracts Manager (CPCM), or Certified Federal Contracts Manager (CFCM), or an equivalent World Commerce & Contracting credential.

• Experience on the supplier side of defense, aerospace, or commercial space programs, including Navy, Air Force, Space Force, or Army platforms

• Experience administering subcontracts under prime contractor terms and conditions at a tier-one or tier-two supplier.

• Experience in a procurement, sourcing, or supply chain organization, or as the contracts partner embedded in one.

• Experience running a contract lifecycle implementation or migration, including repository discovery, data cleanup, and cutover.

• An active security clearance, or eligibility to obtain one.

Compensation

For this role, the target salary range is $140,000- $165,000 (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.

Benefits for Full-time Employees

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
  401k

• Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need.

• Flexible vacation policy

• Equity

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, 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.

Use of AI in hiring

Hadrian uses AI-assisted tools in our recruiting and hiring processes to help our team work more efficiently. This may include tools that help organize and analyze recruiting data, as well as an AI-powered notetaker that can record and transcribe interviews and help coordinate feedback. These tools support our team and are not used to make hiring decisions. All candidate evaluations and hiring decisions are performed by humans. If an interview will be recorded, you will be notified in advance and may opt out at any time with no impact on your candidacy. Candidate data processed through these tools is subject to the same protections described in our Privacy Policy.

Consideration of Criminal History

Hadrian will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws. We do not ask about criminal history on our application, and we do not consider criminal history before making a conditional offer of employment.

Hadrian Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

Hadrian does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, marital status, mental status, physical disability or any other legally protected status. 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.