Mission Development Manager - Cyber

Vannevar Labs; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Vannevar Labs is seeking a Mission Development Manager to lead growth strategies within national security. This role focuses on expanding defense deployments, converting pilots to projects, and presents a trajectory towards a Senior Manager within 12-18 months. You'll work in a dynamic environment where creativity and strategic understanding are key.

Benefits

Health, dental, and vision insurance

100% remote first culture

Unlimited PTO

Lifestyle stipends

Salary top-up during military reserve duty

Fully paid parental leave

Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

Qualifications

• 2+ years delivering growth within a technology or products context.
• Demonstrated ability to convert pilots into projects.
• Experience and intuition growing defense product deployments.

Responsibilities

• Execute strategies driving deployments in defense programs.
• Deliver growth outcomes from concept through contract close.

Skills

Growth Strategy Execution

Conversion of Pilots

Cyber Mission Domain Experience

Team Building

Job description

Our mission is to be the technology backbone for strategic competition against peer adversaries. These missions – including intelligence, information operations, special activities, and perception management – are happening today and their success or failure will determine if we go to war tomorrow.

We've been on the front lines of these missions since 2019, and have grown to support a wide range of missions across all US service branches, multiple combatant commands, partner nations, and interagency stakeholders. We deploy both hardware and software products to support people on the front lines that span collection, planning / assessments, and effects.

We've grown from $3M in run-rate revenue in 2021 to $80M in run-rate revenue today. We've been profitable since 2022 and have raised $91M in venture capital funding through Series B. We're valued at $1.5B as of 2025.

About the role

We are looking for a Mission Development Manager to pursue go-to market strategies and deliver significant growth outcomes at Vannevar. This position will report to a Senior Mission Development Manager aligned to one of our growth pods. These pods focus on launching foothold pilots, converting pilots into larger projects, and embedding those projects within existing programs or inventing new ones within the national security space.

As a Mission Development Manager, you will lead execution of a growth strategy for expanding current deployments and developing new national security deployments. The intended growth trajectory of this role is to develop into a Senior Manager leading a pod or sets of pods to deliver on major growth outcomes within 12-18 months of joining the company.

What you'll do

• Execute on strategies. Pursue go-to market strategies that will drive a set of deployments from new footholds to embed in current defense programs and develop into new category-defining programs.
• Deliver growth outcomes. Execute on this strategy with your pod to deliver growth from concept through contract close.

What we're looking for

• 2+ years delivering growth within a technology or products context.
• Demonstrated ability to convert pilots.
• Cyber mission domain experience within a national security context.
• Experience and intuition to growing defense product deployments from small-scale pilots into larger projects with the Department of Defense.
• Mission domain expertise in national security technology.
• Hunger to work in a national security startup where you can build a team and drive significant growth through creative approaches, deep understanding of our technologies and their applications to strategic competition with nation states, and relentless ground game.
• U.S. Persons status with at least a current Top Secret US DoD or IC clearance is required as this position will require the ability to access U.S. only data systems.

What we offer

The salary range for this position is $170,000-$190,000 + bonus + equity + 401K match. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.

• 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

Vannevar Labs is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, even if you don't feel like you're a perfect fit. If you're passionate about contributing to our mission, we'd love to hear from you!

IMPORTANT NOTICE
We are committed to protecting the privacy of all applicants. Official emails from the company will come from an @vannevarlabs.com domain. Under no circumstances will a legitimate representative from our company contact you to request passwords, financial information, or other sensitive personal data. Please be vigilant of potential scams.

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