[Remote] Product Manager - Mission Agents
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vannevar is a defense technology company building AI to deter adversaries. They are seeking a Product Manager for their Mission Agents team to define user interactions with software systems and drive product direction based on real-world data and user needs.
Responsibilities
- Synthesize signal into direction
- Define how agents behave
- Improve output quality
- Own product direction end-to-end
- Work directly with users
- Translate mission signal into product direction
- Partner with engineering
- Drive alignment in ambiguous situations
Skills
- Strong product judgment. You consistently identify the right problems and make sound prioritization decisions
- Ability to separate signal from noise. You form independent, defensible opinions from incomplete and conflicting inputs
- Experience with complex systems or platforms. You've worked on products where behavior emerges from underlying primitives
- Experience operating under real constraints. You've shipped products where security, infrastructure, or deployment realities shaped decisions
- High ownership and bias toward action. You take responsibility for outcomes and push work through to completion
- Technical fluency. You can engage with engineers and understand system constraints and tradeoffs
- Clear, direct communication. You can articulate decisions, tradeoffs, and reasoning in a way others can act on
- 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. You can work from anywhere in the US and all full time employees have WeWork access
- Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
- Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance
- Salary top-up during military reserve duty
- Fully paid parental leave
- Child and pet care reimbursement during travel
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