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Vannevar Labs is hiring a Product Manager - Mission Agents

Responsibilities

  • Synthesize signal into direction. Take in messy, conflicting inputs and determine what actually matters.
  • Define how agents behave. Shape primitives like objectives, constraints, trust tiers, and evaluation criteria.
  • Improve output quality. Drive systematic improvements across models, memory, and workflows.
  • Own product direction end-to-end. Turn ambiguous problems into concrete bets and drive them through delivery.
  • Work directly with users. Build deep intuition for real-world workflows and needs.
  • Translate mission signal into product direction. Take in real-world user signal and translate it into clear product direction, including pushing back when needed.
  • Partner with engineering. Shape solutions that are both impactful and technically sound.
  • Drive alignment in ambiguous situations. Bring clarity across stakeholders when perspectives conflict.

Requirements

  • Strong product judgment. You consistently identify the right problems and make sound prioritization decisions.
  • Ability to separate signal from noise. You form independent, defensible opinions from incomplete and conflicting inputs.
  • Experience with complex systems or platforms. You’ve worked on products where behavior emerges from underlying primitives.
  • Experience operating under real constraints. You’ve shipped products where security, infrastructure, or deployment realities shaped decisions.
  • High ownership and bias toward action. You take responsibility for outcomes and push work through to completion.
  • Technical fluency. You can engage with engineers and understand system constraints and tradeoffs.
  • Clear, direct communication. You can articulate decisions, tradeoffs, and reasoning in a way others can act on.

Nice to Have

  • Experience working with operational or mission-driven users
  • Experience with LLM-based systems
  • Experience with product analytics (e.g., SQL)
  • Experience rapidly prototyping ideas (Figma, AI coding tools, etc.)
  • Exposure to constrained or high-security environments
  • Active Security clearance (or ability to obtain one) and willingness to travel onsite

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 100% remote first culture. You can work from anywhere in the US and all full time employees have WeWork access
  • Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
  • Lifestyle stipends
  • Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance
  • Salary top-up during military reserve duty
  • Fully paid parental leave
  • Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

Work Arrangement

Remote (Worldwide)

Team

Team size: small agile team. Structure: Combining world-class engineers with veteran strategists who bring deep expertise in defense and tradecraft.

Additional Information

  • Active Security clearance (or ability to obtain one)
  • Willingness to travel onsite
Required Skills
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Vannevar Labs
Vannevar Labs is a technology company that supports strategic competition missions, including intelligence, information operations, and special activities, for US service branches, combatant commands, partner nations, and interagency stakeholders. They deploy both hardware and software products for collection, planning/assessments, and effects.
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Job Details
Department Mission Agents
Category product
Posted 6 days ago