Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vannevar is a defense technology company building AI to deter adversaries. They are seeking a Product Manager for their Mission Agents team to define user interactions with software systems and drive product direction based on real-world data and user needs.
Responsibilities
- Synthesize signal into direction
- Define how agents behave
- Improve output quality
- Own product direction end-to-end
- Work directly with users
- Translate mission signal into product direction
- Partner with engineering
- Drive alignment in ambiguous situations
Skills
- 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
- 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
Company Overview
Vannevar builds new defense capabilities for modern conflict. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.vannevarlabs.com.