Product Manager – Mission Agents

Vannevar Labs

Product Manager for Mission Agents team at Vannevar, focusing on AI product development. Collaborate with engineers, define user interactions, and drive product direction based on mission requirements.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Synthesize signal into direction. Take in messy, conflicting inputs and determine what actually matters.
Define how agents behave. Shape primitives like objectives, constraints, trust tiers, and evaluation criteria.
Improve output quality. Drive systematic improvements across models, memory, and workflows.
Own product direction end-to-end. Turn ambiguous problems into concrete bets and drive them through delivery.
Work directly with users. Build deep intuition for real-world workflows and needs.
Translate mission signal into product direction. Take in real-world user signal and translate it into clear product direction, including pushing back when needed.
Partner with engineering. Shape solutions that are both impactful and technically sound.
Drive alignment in ambiguous situations. Bring clarity across stakeholders when perspectives conflict.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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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Hard Skills & Tools

product judgmentcomplex systemstechnical fluency

Soft Skills

clear communicationindependent opinion formationhigh ownershipbias toward actionability to drive alignment