Product Manager - Mission Agents

The role

You will define how users delegate work to software and how agent systems operate, monitor, and improve. You will work with operators, forward deployed engineers, and engineering teams to turn ambiguous problems into shipped capabilities.

What you will do

• Synthesize signal into direction from messy, conflicting inputs.
• Define how agents behave including objectives, constraints, trust tiers, and evaluation criteria.
• Drive systematic improvements across models, memory, and workflows.
• Own product direction end-to-end from ambiguous problems to delivery.
• Work directly with users to build intuition for real-world workflows.
• Translate mission signal into product direction.
• Partner with engineering to shape impactful and technically sound solutions.
• Drive alignment in ambiguous situations across stakeholders.

Required qualifications

• Strong product judgment.
• Ability to separate signal from noise.
• Experience with complex systems or platforms.
• Experience operating under real constraints.
• High ownership and bias toward action.
• Technical fluency.
• Clear, direct communication.

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
• WeWork access for all full time employees
• Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
• Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend
• In-home office setup stipend
• Family planning assistance
• 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.