Mission Lead - Economic Security (Clearance Required)

Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Posted a month ago

The role

You will build and grow Vannevar's work in economic security by owning a portfolio of deployments. You will identify mission problems, develop technical narratives, and turn successful trials into revenue-generating deployments across government and commercial sectors.

What you will do

Own a portfolio of economic security deployments.
Develop hypotheses about mission problems and convert them into deployments.
Build and defend a product-market-fit thesis.
Develop and deliver technical narratives with senior stakeholders.
Sustain and expand fielded user groups.
Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and forward-deployed engineers.
Exercise sound judgment in ambiguous, still-forming environments.
Navigate programmatic and contracting realities.

Required qualifications

U.S. Persons status
Current Top Secret clearance
5+ years owning outcomes in complex, ambiguous government, defense, or intelligence community environments
Prior national security experience relevant strategic and economic competition
Deep curiosity and interest in working with leading-edge software
Conceptual thinking skills
Strong product-market-fit instincts
High level of comfort operating with high autonomy in ambiguous, still-forming organizations
Sufficient technical fluency to partner credibly with Product and Engineering
Sound judgment about when to move fast and when to socialize a new thesis internally

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

Before you apply

U.S. Persons status required
Current Top Secret clearance required

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.