Senior Business Operations Manager

The role

You will drive outcomes across the company by building customer delivery systems and core business processes to help the company scale. You will also work on talent strategy and develop business and operating models for high-growth mission areas.

What you will do

• Build a system for managing customer delivery with mission and engineering teams
• Build core business and operational systems and lightweight processes to scale
• Source, attract, and onboard specialized and senior talent
• Shape the business and operating model for high growth customer or mission areas
• Build and tailor tools, processes, and AI agents to solve business problems
• Partner with finance and engineering to understand cost structures and improve performance
• Develop tailored plans to identify, attract, and hire people for growth areas
• Analyze strategic investments and design infrastructure for tracking strategic goals
• Identify and fix breaking processes

Required qualifications

• 5-10+ years of relevant work experience
• Experience executing and building new things
• Ownership and Autonomy
• Judgment
• Speed and Efficiency

Nice to have

• national security background
• management consulting background
• high growth startup background
• comfort with recruiting and building strong teams
• scaling commercial and business operations
• supporting new business growth
• comfortable with designing AI agents for ongoing business processes
• strong cross-functional project execution
• know how to quickly build credibility with senior leaders

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.