Vannevar

Vannevar

Mission Lead (Tampa)

Tampa, Florida, United States · Exec

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About the role

  • This is an in-person, on-site role where you will sit with users every day, understand their mission problems, and use Vannevar's products to solve them.
  • You will be embedded on a military base with one of our customer groups.
  • This is not a traditional customer success, solutions, or product role.

Responsibilities

  • Embed with users. Sit on site every day with customer groups in Tampa and build deep intuition for their mission.
  • Build trust. Earn credibility by understanding user problems and helping solve them over time.
  • Develop new user groups. Build relationships with additional teams on site and identify where Vannevar can create value.

Requirements

  • Comfort in the field.
  • You work through ambiguity, iteration, and friction until you get to impact.
  • You can reason about how software systems work, break, and improve.
  • You are excited to understand, configure, and apply AI-enabled systems.
  • You can represent Vannevar well in high-stakes customer environments.

Compensation

  • Salary top-up during military reserve duty

Benefits

  • We're proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees.
  • Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
  • Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
  • Fully paid parental leave
  • Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

Company info

  • Vannevar is a defense technology company building AI to deter our adversaries.
  • In the 21st century, conflict moves at algorithmic speed and foresight equals firepower.
  • Our agentic AI is purpose-built to compete with China-from cross-Strait conflict to gray zone coercion.
  • Trained on the most mission-relevant datasets in defense, our technology models adversary behavior, simulates campaigns, and recommends the best course of action to decision makers.
  • Our AI systems are some of the most trusted in the industry and actively used on the front lines of the Indo-Pacific to keep the peace and save lives.
  • Exceptional technology starts with exceptional people.
  • Vannevar is a small agile team combining world-class engineers with veteran strategists who bring deep expertise in defense and tradecraft.
  • We're building a company defined by mission impact, user empathy, and disciplined growth.
  • In just three years, we grew from $3M to $80M in ARR, achieved early profitability, and reached unicorn status-proving that disruption doesn't require an ego, and staying power doesn't mean standing still.
  • You will be forward deployed with access to government systems that most of the company cannot reach.
  • You will be the face of Vannevar for many of our Tampa users and customers.
  • We're hiring a forward deployed Mission Lead to embed directly with our government customers in Tampa.
  • Represent Vannevar. Be the face of the company with Tampa users and customers.
  • What we're looking for

This listing is sourced directly from Vannevar's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.