Mission Systems Director

3 weeks ago
Full-time
Lead
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

  • Advise on program structures, acquisition pathways, funding lines, risk areas, and modernization priorities.
  • Identify where Vannevar can support programs through capability gaps, integration challenges, and modernization timelines.
  • Shape long-range strategy for $200M+ programs, major new starts, re-competes, and technical upgrade cycles.
  • Leverage relationships across PEOs, PMWs, and partner organizations to build trust and accelerate customer understanding.
  • Engage senior acquisition leaders to understand mission needs and program constraints.
  • Guide capture strategy, shaping, teaming decisions, bid/no-bid calls, and price-to-win considerations.
  • Map acquisition timelines, key decision points, POM cycles, reprogramming windows, and budget patterns.
  • Translate multi-year PEO strategies into actionable near-term opportunities.
  • Provide internal teams with program office insights on integration, testing, sustainment, risk, and fielding realities.
  • Represent the program office perspective to ensure offerings align with acquisition, technical, operational, and contracting realities.

Requirements

  • Former PEO, Deputy PEO, Senior PMW lead, ACAT I/II PM, or equivalent Senior Program Manager experience.
  • First-hand experience with 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 from the government perspective.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex acquisition and program realities into clear guidance.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity with a bias toward action.
  • U.S. Persons status with a current Top Secret U.S. DoD or IC clearance is required.

Benefits

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

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