Senior Mission Manager - International - Clearance Required

4 months 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

  • Lead engagements with government program offices to identify mission problems the technology can solve.
  • Translate program needs into technical narratives that map software capabilities to requirements, constraints, and outcomes.
  • Scope and shape pilots by defining objectives, success criteria, timelines, and scale-up paths.
  • Pitch the technology to senior stakeholders with mission credibility and technical fluency.
  • Navigate requirements development, budgeting cycles, contracting pathways, and stakeholder coordination.
  • Partner with product managers and engineers to reflect mission context in technical scope, tradeoffs, and delivery plans.
  • Convert successful pilots into sustained programs and help secure follow-on funding and broader adoption.
  • Represent Vannevar Labs as a mission-credible, technically fluent partner within the program ecosystem.

Requirements

  • 15–20+ years of experience in government or defense missions, typically as a retired O5/O6 or senior enlisted or civilian equivalent.
  • Deep expertise in a specific mission or technical domain such as cyber, information warfare, ISR, networks, operational intelligence, or warfare systems/command and control.
  • Strong ability to scope, pitch, and sell technical solutions to senior government stakeholders.
  • 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.
  • Ability to partner effectively with product and engineering teams.
  • Ability to translate complex concepts into clear, mission-relevant narratives.
  • Demonstrated scrappiness and bias toward action, with comfort operating in ambiguity.
  • High enthusiasm for building something new and shaping technology adoption inside government.
  • Bonus: acquisition, resource sponsor, or program manager experience.
  • U.S. Persons status with at least a current Top Secret U.S. DoD or IC clearance is required.

Benefits

  • Salary range of $180,000–$220,000 plus equity.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Remote-friendly work arrangement 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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