Mission Lead - SOF (Clearance Required)

3 hours, 22 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Project and Program Management
Vannevar Labs

Vannevar Labs

Vannevar Labs is a defense company that combines top engineering talent with decades of mission experience to deliver state-of-the-art technology to those in need. They specialize in a foreign text workflow platform, Decrypt, designed for national secu...

Aerospace & Defense
11-50
$87M raised

Description

  • Build trusted relationships with operational, technical, and senior government stakeholders to identify mission needs and success criteria.
  • Translate mission problems into requirements, milestones, plans, and measurable outcomes.
  • Shape pilots, adoption plans, and pathways to sustained program scale.
  • Develop technical narratives connecting Vannevar’s agent-based capabilities to mission requirements and constraints.
  • Lead customer syncs, internal standups, executive updates, QBRs, risk reviews, and action tracking.
  • Coordinate Product, Engineering, Mission, Security, and Operations teams through delivery and scaling.
  • Navigate requirements, budgeting, contracting, and cross-organization coordination.
  • Coordinate customer onboarding, training, and ongoing adoption.
  • Maintain documentation covering stakeholders, use cases, timelines, decisions, deliverables, and lessons learned.
  • Identify adjacent use cases and support account expansion.

Requirements

  • 6+ years owning outcomes in complex customer environments, preferably within the SOF or PSYOPs/IO community.
  • Current Top Secret U.S. Department of Defense or Intelligence Community clearance; U.S. Person status required.
  • Ability to work on the East Coast, preferably in Washington, D.C., with frequent or periodic travel.
  • Experience working in secure or classified environments.
  • Ability to lead cross-functional work with limited guidance.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including synthesizing ambiguity into clear execution plans.
  • Technical fluency sufficient to connect mission problems to software capabilities and measurable outcomes.
  • Strong planning, prioritization, stakeholder management, and follow-through skills.
  • Experience with secure or regulated deployments, such as ATO/IL environments or classified workflows, preferred.
  • Experience with program requirements, budgets, authorities, timelines, contracting pathways, executive updates, or domains such as cyber, information warfare, ISR, networks, or command and control preferred.

Benefits

  • $150,000–$170,000 salary plus equity and 401(k) match.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Remote-first U.S. work environment with WeWork access for full-time employees.
  • Unlimited PTO with competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
  • Monthly mental health, wellness, and fitness stipends, plus home-office and family-planning assistance.
  • Military reserve duty salary top-up.
  • Fully paid parental leave.
  • Child and pet care reimbursement during travel.

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