Mission Systems Director

🕒 January 13

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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

• Shape early program strategy • Advise on program structures, acquisition pathways, funding lines, risk areas, and modernization priorities • Identify where and how Vannevar can meaningfully support programs—whether through capability gaps, integration challenges, or modernization timelines. • Inform long-range strategy around $25M–$50M+ programs, major new starts, re-competes, and technical upgrade cycles. • Build trusted customer relationships • Leverage your network across PEOs, PMWs, and partner organizations to open doors, deepen trust, and accelerate customer understanding. • Engage senior acquisition leaders to understand real-world constraints, mission needs, and where Vannevar’s technology can be most impactful. • Navigate program offices with fluency—knowing who the decision-makers are, how they think, and how programs actually move. • Guide capture, shaping, and competitive positioning • Partner with the Senior Growth Lead to influence requirements early, shape concept of operations, and ensure our offerings align to program office needs. • Provide technical, operational, and programmatic context that positions Vannevar uniquely versus primes, integrators, and other emerging vendors. • Support bid/no-bid calls, capture strategy, teaming strategy, and price-to-win considerations based on insider program knowledge. • Strengthen pipeline visibility & predictability • Map out acquisition timelines, key decision points, POM cycles, reprogramming windows, and PMW-specific budget patterns to inform Vannevar’s growth roadmap. • Help translate multi-year PEO strategies into actionable near-term opportunities that the Growth Lead can pursue. • Represent the program office perspective internally • Provide internal teams—engineering, product, mission, and leadership—with authentic program office insights on integration, testing, sustainment, risk, and fielding realities. • Ensure Vannevar’s offerings resonate with acquisition leaders and align with the technical, operational, and contracting realities of programs.

🎯 Requirements

• Former PEO, Deputy PEO, Senior PMW lead, ACAT I/II PM, or equivalent Senior Program Manager. • First-hand experience navigating JCIDS, DAS, budgeting cycles, POM builds, milestone decisions, integration pipelines, T&E, and sustainment pathways. • Strong network across program offices, technical authorities, warfare centers, primes, and integrators. • Familiarity with how software, networks, cyber, or mission systems capabilities are built, evaluated, integrated, and purchased. • Experience partnering closely with industry or evaluating industry proposals—able to guide strategy, shaping, and competitive positioning from the government perspective. • Strong communication instincts—able to translate complex acquisition and program realities into clear guidance for a fast-moving startup. • Desire to help shape something new, with comfort operating in ambiguity and a bias toward action.

🏖️ 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