Product Strategist - Agents

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.

About The Role

The Agents Product Strategist will build and shape the future of AI agent technology in the military. You will work on our most ambitious product and customer deployments, directly focusing on conceptualizing and rapidly prototyping AI agents to solve real-world mission problems. You will forward deploy alongside military users to deeply understand mission-critical challenges, and partner with engineering to build and scale innovative agent-based solutions. AI is evolving rapidly, making it essential that you are not only informed about the latest technologies, but also understand emerging trends and proactively imagine innovative applications aligned with future advancements.

What you'll do

• Build and shape the future of AI agent technology in the military.
• Identify important mission problems with users that we can solve with AI agents. 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. 
• Strong ability to conceptualize novel AI agent applications and being able to clearly explain your designs and prototypes.
• Deep and current knowledge of AI capabilities and emerging trends.
• Technical aptitude to prototype and rapidly validate AI agent systems.
• Bias towards achieving outcomes, including willingness to step outside your immediate role to ensure mission success.
• Ability to work autonomously and set your own goals.
• Ability to learn quickly.
• Grit and creativity to keep going when faced with a roadblock.
• Active TS / SCI Clearance is a plus but not needed.
  
  

What we offer

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.