Vannevarlabs
Mission Lead - SOF (Clearance Required)
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States; Tampa, Florida, United States; Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Posted a month ago
The role
Mission Leads are customer-facing owners of mission outcomes. You will lead engagements with government stakeholders to identify mission problems, shape pilots, and turn value into funded programs.
What you will do
- Lead mission engagements and build relationships with stakeholders
- Turn mission needs into problem statements, requirements, and outcomes
- Define objectives and adoption plans for pilots and scaling
- Create technical narratives mapping capabilities to mission requirements
- Lead weekly customer syncs, internal standups, and executive updates
- Partner with Product and Engineering on scope and delivery plans
- Help stakeholders with requirements, budgeting, and contracting
- Coordinate onboarding, training, and customer success
- Maintain documentation in Notion
- Identify adjacent use cases to support expansion
Required qualifications
- U.S. Persons status
- Current Top Secret US DoD or IC clearance
- 6+ years owning outcomes in complex customer environments
- Ability to lead cross-functionally without consistent guidance
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Ability to scope and articulate a solution credibly
- Sufficient technical fluency to partner with Product and Engineering
- Strong operational skills including planning and stakeholder management
- Ability to work in secure or classified environments
- Ability to travel frequently
Nice to have
- Experience in the SOF or PSYOPs/IO community
- Experience with deployments or fielding in secure/regulated environments
- Experience navigating within programs
- Deep expertise in a specific mission or technical domain
- Experience running executive-level customer updates
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 100% remote first culture
- WeWork access for all full time employees
- Unlimited PTO
- 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
- 401K match
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.