Staff Technical Product Manager

The role

The Staff Technical Product Manager will lead the definition and evolution of foundational platform capabilities. This role operates at the system level to shape structures and primitives that underpin products across multiple engineering organizations.

What you will do

• Define and evolve cross-platform system primitives and structures
• Translate mission and product needs into durable system behaviors
• Produce artifacts like PRDs, specs, and evaluation criteria
• Drive resolution of structural problems spanning multiple engineering organizations
• Build alignment across engineering leadership, design, and mission stakeholders
• Maintain convergence momentum across teams implementing shared capabilities
• Partner with Engineering Managers to translate structural intent into execution plans
• Stay engaged through delivery to ensure implementations converge on intended outcomes
• Identify architectural divergence early and drive corrective action
• Identify and drive resolution of cross-team dependencies

Required qualifications

• Experience operating at Staff level in TPM, product architecture, or engineer-to-PM hybrid roles
• Strong systems reasoning across distributed systems, identity/authorization, or platform architecture
• Demonstrated success shaping technical direction across multiple teams
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-organizational technical initiatives through to outcome
• Credible communicator able to influence senior engineers and technical leadership without formal authority
• High ownership mindset in ambiguous environments
• Outstanding driver and communicator who identifies structural risks early

Nice to have

• Background in platform, infrastructure, or security domains
• Experience with policy or authorization systems
• Multi-tenant or regulated environment exposure
• Experience operating in environments with decentralized ownership or competing platform abstractions

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO
• Shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar
• Company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

About the company

Vannevar builds AI systems for the Department of War's most consequential missions. They deploy forward with the people who own the mission, including visiting units in Ukraine.