Director, Technical Data Modernization
Los Angeles, CA$200k - $240kFull-timePosted 5d ago
About the role
Director responsible for building and running Hadrian's high-volume technical data modernization operation, converting legacy defense data into modern, manufacturing-ready models and drawings, starting with a large multi-year migration for a defense customer.
Responsibilities
- Build the operating model for each program, starting with the migration: the standard workflow, the training, and the quality controls that confirm each package matches its source data before it goes to the customer.
- Work with the software team so the process and the automation tools improve together, and the manual effort per package keeps falling.
- Plan and run the hiring ramp: sourcing, location, training, and retention.
- Balance capacity across programs, track throughput and quality against each program's schedule, and fix the bottleneck.
- Hire and develop the leaders who run the team day to day.
- Meet each program's data-handling rules while keeping the quality call.
Qualifications
- Engineering or STEM degree, or equivalent hands-on experience.
- 3+ years leading other leaders.
- Built and ran a high-volume technical operation, such as production, engineering services, or drawing conversion, and grew it to 50 or more people.
- Hired and trained people quickly, and kept them engaged in repetitive work.
- Runs an operation on throughput and quality data.
- Enough engineering-drawing depth to own the quality bar, including GD&T and model-based definition.
Skills
Required:High-volume technical operations managementLeadership of senior teamsEngineering-drawing and GD&T
Benefits
- 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
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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