Mission Systems Director
Vannevar Labs
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Shape early program strategy
- Advise on program structures, acquisition pathways, funding lines, risk areas, and modernization priorities
- Identify where and how Vannevar can meaningfully support programs—whether through capability gaps, integration challenges, or modernization timelines.
- Inform long-range strategy around $25M–$50M+ programs, major new starts, re-competes, and technical upgrade cycles.
- Build trusted customer relationships
- Leverage your network across PEOs, PMWs, and partner organizations to open doors, deepen trust, and accelerate customer understanding.
- Engage senior acquisition leaders to understand real-world constraints, mission needs, and where Vannevar’s technology can be most impactful.
- Navigate program offices with fluency—knowing who the decision-makers are, how they think, and how programs actually move.
- Guide capture, shaping, and competitive positioning
- Partner with the Senior Growth Lead to influence requirements early, shape concept of operations, and ensure our offerings align to program office needs.
- Provide technical, operational, and programmatic context that positions Vannevar uniquely versus primes, integrators, and other emerging vendors.
- Support bid/no-bid calls, capture strategy, teaming strategy, and price-to-win considerations based on insider program knowledge.
- Strengthen pipeline visibility & predictability
- Map out acquisition timelines, key decision points, POM cycles, reprogramming windows, and PMW-specific budget patterns to inform Vannevar’s growth roadmap.
- Help translate multi-year PEO strategies into actionable near-term opportunities that the Growth Lead can pursue.
- Represent the program office perspective internally
- Provide internal teams—engineering, product, mission, and leadership—with authentic program office insights on integration, testing, sustainment, risk, and fielding realities.
- Ensure Vannevar’s offerings resonate with acquisition leaders and align with the technical, operational, and contracting realities of programs.
Requirements
- Former PEO, Deputy PEO, Senior PMW lead, ACAT I/II PM, or equivalent Senior Program Manager.
- First-hand experience navigating JCIDS, DAS, budgeting cycles, POM builds, milestone decisions, integration pipelines, T&E, and sustainment pathways.
- Strong network across program offices, technical authorities, warfare centers, primes, and integrators.
- Familiarity with how software, networks, cyber, or mission systems capabilities are built, evaluated, integrated, and purchased.
- Experience partnering closely with industry or evaluating industry proposals—able to guide strategy, shaping, and competitive positioning from the government perspective.
- Strong communication instincts—able to translate complex acquisition and program realities into clear guidance for a fast-moving startup.
- Desire to help shape something new, with comfort operating in ambiguity and a bias toward action.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Remote friendly with WeWork access
- Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
program strategyacquisition pathwaysfunding linesrisk managementtechnical upgrade cyclescapture strategyprice-to-win considerationsintegration pipelinesbudgeting cyclesmilestone decisions
Soft skills
customer relationship buildingnetworkingcommunicationstrategic thinkingoperating in ambiguityaction-oriented mindsettranslating complex informationinfluencing requirementsguiding strategycollaboration