Partnerships Marketing Manager

About the role

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. Hadrian is hiring a Partnerships Marketing Manager to own how we show up through other people’s audiences. That covers both sides of the same discipline: the sponsorships, ads, and paid media partnerships we buy, and the co-marketing and ecosystem partnerships we build without writing a check. The through-line is leverage. Hadrian is a reindustrialization story with unusual pull, and there is a long list of media properties, creators, institutions, and partner brands who want to tell some version of it. Your job is to decide which of those relationships are worth our money and attention, structure them so we get something specific in return, and then actually operate them after signature. You will own this portfolio end to end: sourcing, evaluation, negotiation, activation, and measurement. That includes telling us no on deals that look exciting and do not hold up, which is a real part of the job.

Responsibilities

• Own paid partnerships and sponsorships – source, evaluate, negotiate, activate, and measure sponsorships, ads, and paid media partnerships across emerging media, creator‑led content, events, industry, and large‑scale cultural and sports properties.
• Build partnerships we do not pay for – develop co‑marketing relationships with brands, platforms, and ecosystem organizations; create institutional pipelines with universities, trade schools, apprenticeship programs, and veterans groups; partner with talent brand and recruiting; engage industry associations, reindustrialization organizations, and community groups in site markets.
• Operate the deals after signature – manage activation end‑to‑end, own deliverable calendars, creative inputs, approvals, internal coordination; work with events on physical placements and with communications/content on public‑voice placements; manage partner and agency