Vannevar LabsVL

Product Strategist

Vannevar Labs is a technology startup specializing in advanced defense solutions for national security challenges. Founded in 2019, it's headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Vannevar Labs

Employee count: 51-200

Salary: 120k-200k USD

United States only

Vannevar Labs supports people on the front lines by building tools that deter and de-escalate conflict with America's adversaries. We build software and hardware for this mission that enable our customers to maintain maritime vigilance, disrupt misinformation, and collect non-traditional intelligence. In strategic competition, the intelligence and actions that shape conflict occur well before war itself. We build tools to win this fight now.

This mission has become urgent. The US and our allies are fighting a war of deterrence with woefully outdated technology. As a team, we believe in public service and that our democracy and government improve only if we put serious, collective effort into improving them, including the technology our government uses.

Since our founding in 2019, we have grown to support a wide range of missions and capabilities across all U.S. service branches, multiple combatant commands, partner nations, and the intelligence community. We have been profitable since 2021, and are backed by investors including General Catalyst, DFJ Growth, Point72, Costanoa, and Felicis.

About the role

The Productteam works on our most ambitious product and customer deployments andis about partnering with user groups to scope and deliver high mission impact outcomeswhile partnering with engineering and other teams internally. You will become an expert on scoping mission problems with a group and will define and iterate on our solution to these problems using our products, your creativity, and partnership with engineering.

What you'll do

  • Identify important mission problems with users that we can reasonably solve with Vannevar’s products or new product development. You will continuously adjust your hypotheses based on new information.
  • Solve these problems and generate meaningful mission outcomes. This involves embedding with the user groups, becoming a domain expert on the mission problem, and using your creativity, our current products, and sometimes developing new products with the engineering team.
  • Develop a thesis for a broader program that extends the work you do to other groups and develop a compelling mission pitch that ties to the program, including compelling demos.
  • Help our business development team win program deals by partnering with them, traveling to customers, and getting those customers irrationally excited about the mission impact we can have.

What we're looking for

  • A track record of creatively scoping ambiguous problems with the ability to generate strong hypotheses when faced with ambiguity – can be national security or general private sector experience.
  • Grit and creativity to keep going when faced with a roadblock.
  • Success in working problems to conclusion and trying different approaches until one works.
  • Ability to work autonomously and set your own goals
  • Ability to quickly learn new software products to generate outcomes.
  • Demonstrated bias towards achieving an outcome even if it requires helping or doing the job of someone else on another team.
  • Experience helping to iterate on a product with product design, product management and/or engineering teams is a plus but not needed
  • Active TS / SCI Clearance is a plus but not needed

What we offer

The salary range for this position is $120,000-$200,000 + equity + 401K match. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.

We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
  • 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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Salary: 120k-200k USD

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Vannevar Labs is a technology startup focused on addressing critical national security challenges through advanced defense technologies. Founded in 2019, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It plays a pivotal role in developing sophisticated collection, obfuscation, and machine learning techniques that ensure assured access to mission-relevant data. With a commitment to supporting non-kinetic missions, Vannevar Labs aims to deter and de-escalate conflicts while also enabling strategic competition at a global scale.

At the forefront of innovation in the defense sector, Vannevar collaborates closely with military and government entities to create state-of-the-art solutions. The company's founders, Brett Granberg and Nini Hamrick, emphasize the importance of generating mission successes and understanding the evolving needs of their users in the national security space. Their engineers, many of whom have extensive military experience, are deeply immersed in the real-world challenges faced by defense operations today. This unique blend of experience and technological expertise positions Vannevar Labs as a leader in delivering next-generation solutions for complex security problems.

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