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Vannevar Labs

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🎖️ Defense

💰 $12M Series A on 2021-08

Consulting • Logistics • Defense

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

• Build a high-performance organization by partnering with exec team and functional leaders on org design, workforce planning, and leadership needs as the company scales. • Clarify hiring standards, promotion expectations, and talent bar across teams. • Design and evolve our performance management philosophy. • Coach managers to set clear expectations and give direct feedback and have hard conversations with confidence. • Own operational foundation that allows the company to grow confidently: benefits, compliance, investigations, employee relations, policies, and core people processes. • Build lightweight systems that improve business performance without slowing the company down.

🎯 Requirements

• Has helped scale a high-performing company through rapid growth (for example, ~200 to 500+ employees). • Has significant experience coaching managers through performance management and difficult personnel decisions. • Has personally led employee investigations, complex offboardings, and sensitive employee relations situations. • Knows when to introduce process and when not to. • Is trusted by both executives and individual contributors. • Has exceptional judgment, discretion, and emotional intelligence. • Cares deeply about building a culture of high performance rather than avoiding hard conversations. • Can move comfortably between strategic discussions with leadership and hands-on operational work.

🏖️ 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