Vannevar builds AI systems for the Department of War's most consequential missions. We have 125 deployments across every branch and combatant command spanning our core platform and five distinct products. An an example of how we work, when major combat operations started with Iran, we fielded a new product supporting 24/7 operations and 9,000+ users in three months.
How we build is our advantage: we deploy forward with the people who own the mission. Our engineers, product team, and CTO deploy forward to the point of friction, including visiting units in Ukraine. We focus on embedding directly with operational units supporting great power competition with China, combat operations with Iran, and counter-narcotics missions.
We’re hiring a Product Manager for our Digital Forensics team.
This team builds AI-driven intelligence capabilities that turn large, messy, real-world datasets into clear answers and actions for operators and investigators. The product has strong traction and is entering a period of rapid growth – many more users and far higher volume, fast. We’re hiring the PM who will own it through that scale-up.
This is not a traditional roadmap role. You will take in incomplete, conflicting inputs from users, customers, stakeholders, and the product itself, and decide what we should build – and what we shouldn’t – as demand accelerates.
You will work closely with operators, product engineers, forward deployed engineers, and mission colleagues to find high-leverage problems and drive them through a shipped capability. You’ll often need to set aside loud or conflicting inputs and make calls others disagree with.
This role reports to the CTO and operates at the intersection of mission, product, and engineering. Success is measured by whether we build the right things and those things create real mission impact at scale.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Own the product direction end-to-end. Turn ambiguous problems into concrete bets and drive them through to shipped capability.
- Navigate rapid growth. Guide the product through a steep rise in users and usage, making the tradeoffs to keep it fast, focused, and reliable at scale.
- Turn signal into direction. Take messy, often conflicting input from users, stakeholders, and the product itself, decide what actually matters for growth and mission impact, and translate it into clear product direction – including pushing back when the loudest ask isn’t the right one.
- Build alignment across Mission and Engineering. Bring people along when Mission and Engineering see a problem differently – disagree when you need to, then get everyone committed on the path forward.
- Partner with engineering. Embed with the team, meet them where they work best, and shape solutions that are both impactful and technically sound.
- Work directly with users. Build deep intuition for real-world workflows and needs.
- Drive adoption and durability. Move users from first use to daily reliance and keep quality high as volume grows.
- Strong product judgment. You consistently identify the right problems and make sound prioritization decisions.
- Product experience through a growth phase. You’ve owned a product through rising users and usage, not just early 0-to-1.
- Ability to separate signal from noise. You form independent, defensible opinions from incomplete and conflicting inputs, and can act on them under uncertainty.
- Experience operating under real constraints. You’ve shipped products where security, infrastructure, or deployment realities shaped decisions.
- High ownership and a 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.
- Active TS/SCI clearance (or ability to obtain one)
- Willingness to travel onsite
- Experience working with operational, mission-driven, or investigative users
- Experience with LLM-based systems
- Experience with product analytics (e.g., SQL)
- Experience rapidly prototyping ideas (Figma, AI coding tools, etc.)
- Experience with digital forensics or investigations
- Exposure to constrained or high-security environments
- 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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Skills Required
- Strong product judgment and prioritization skills
- Experience owning a product through a growth phase with rising users and usage
- Ability to form independent opinions from incomplete and conflicting inputs and act under uncertainty
- Experience shipping products shaped by security, infrastructure, or deployment constraints
- High ownership and bias toward action
- Technical fluency and ability to understand engineering constraints and tradeoffs
- Clear, direct communication of decisions, tradeoffs, and reasoning
- Active TS/SCI clearance or ability to obtain one
- Willingness to travel onsite
- Experience with operational, mission-driven, or investigative users
- Experience with LLM-based systems
- Experience with product analytics, such as SQL
- Experience rapidly prototyping with Figma or AI coding tools
- Experience with digital forensics or investigations
- Exposure to constrained or high-security environments
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Vannevar Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Parental & Family Support — Family-related benefits are described as fully paid parental leave, family-planning support, and reimbursement for child and pet care during required work travel. Feedback suggests these provisions stand out as a notable strength.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is described as unlimited PTO with shared downtime around federal holidays and a company-wide year-end break. Feedback suggests employees in some roles have successfully used the policy, reinforcing its practical value.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is presented as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, alongside positive indications on plan quality from some sources. Feedback suggests healthcare sits among the more appreciated elements of the package.
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What We Do
Vannevar combines Silicon Valley innovation with former special operators to build AI for real-world national security outcomes. Since our founding in 2019, Vannevar has deployed its technology across 125 missions, safeguarding our service members and improving our country's deterrence. We believe our military service members and intelligence officers deserve access to the best technology American innovation can offer, and we are mobilizing frontier technology for this mission. Our founders have 30 years of combined experience across AI labs, national security strategy, intelligence agencies and special operations. We're supported by a number of leading VCs, including Felicis, DFJ Growth, Point72, Costanoa, and General Catalyst. Vannevar is one of the most capital efficient defense tech companies, reaching early profitability and becoming a defense tech unicorn in 2024.
Why Work With Us
We pride ourselves on being a team of passionate, low-ego professionals who share a commitment to engineering excellence and a genuine concern for the people and AI agents we deliver. Vannevar is a company that truly cares about its people and one of our core principles is "put your wellbeing first".
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