Senior Mission Manager
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VannevarDefense Technology
Location: RemoteFull-TimeSenior
Salary180,000 - 220,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 15–20+ years
- Required Skills
- CybersecurityStakeholder management
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 (e.g., cyber, information warfare, ISR, networks, operational intelligence, 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
- Demonstrated scrappiness and bias toward action
Responsibilities
- Lead engagements with program offices (PEOs, PMWs, PMOs, and equivalent organizations) to identify mission problems that Vannevar Labs’ technology can solve.
- Translate program needs into technical narratives, clearly explaining how our software and agent-based capabilities map to requirements, constraints, and outcomes.
- Scope and shape program-based pilots, defining objectives, success criteria, timelines, and pathways to scale.
- Pitch the technology with credibility, leveraging your mission and domain background to build trust with program managers and technical authorities.
- Navigate programmatic realities, including requirements development, budgeting cycles, contracting pathways, and stakeholder coordination.
- Partner closely with product managers and engineers to ensure mission context is accurately reflected in technical scope, tradeoffs, and delivery plans.
- Convert successful pilots into sustained programs, helping program offices justify follow-on funding and broader adoption.
- Represent Vannevar Labs within the program ecosystem as a mission-credible, technically fluent partner.
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