Mission Manager – Clearance Required

🕒 February 5

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Vannevar Labs

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔐 Security

💰 $12M Series A on 2021-08

Defense • Artificial Intelligence • Security

Vannevar Labs is a defense technology company focused on digital intelligence to support non-kinetic missions aimed at deterring and de-escalating conflicts. The company specializes in developing advanced machine learning techniques to ensure access to mission-relevant data, building tools to counter malign influence, and enhancing maritime domain awareness using open-source and targeted data collection techniques. Vannevar Labs is dedicated to quickly iterating with national security partners to meet urgent and dynamic security challenges, positioning its solutions to address the strategic competition for legitimacy and influence in the modern geopolitical landscape.

📋 Description

• Lead engagements with program offices (PEOs, PMWs, PMOs, and equivalent organizations) to identify mission problems that Vannevar Labs’ technology can solve • Translate program needs into technical narratives, clearly explaining how our software and agent-based capabilities map to requirements, constraints, and outcomes • Scope and shape program-based pilots, defining objectives, success criteria, timelines, and pathways to scale • Pitch the technology with credibility, leveraging your mission and domain background to build trust with program managers and technical authorities • Navigate programmatic realities, including requirements development, budgeting cycles, contracting pathways, and stakeholder coordination • Partner closely with product managers and engineers to ensure mission context is accurately reflected in technical scope, tradeoffs, and delivery plans • Convert successful pilots into sustained programs, helping program offices justify follow-on funding and broader adoption • Represent Vannevar Labs within the program ecosystem as a mission-credible, technically fluent partner

🎯 Requirements

• 15–20+ years of experience in government or defense missions, typically as a retired O5/O6 or civilian equivalent • Deep expertise in a specific mission or technical domain (e.g., cyber, information warfare, ISR, networks, operational intelligence, warfare systems/command and control) • Strong ability to scope, pitch, and sell technical solutions to senior government stakeholders — not just explain missions, but connect them to software capabilities • Proven experience navigating programmatic realities, including budgets, requirements, authorities, timelines, and stakeholder dynamics • Sufficient technical fluency to: • Understand modern software systems and agent-based approaches • Partner effectively with product and engineering teams • Translate complex concepts into clear, mission-relevant narratives • Demonstrated scrappiness and bias toward action — comfortable operating in ambiguity and pushing programs forward without perfect structure • High enthusiasm for building something new and shaping how cutting-edge technology is adopted inside government • Bonus of having acquisition, resource sponsor, or program manager experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance • Remote friendly with WeWork access • Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year • 401(k) match • Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends • Salary top-up during military reserve duty • Fully paid parental leave • Child and pet care reimbursement during travel