Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vannevar is a defense technology company building AI to deter adversaries. They are seeking a Staff Technical Product Manager to lead the definition and evolution of foundational platform capabilities across multiple engineering organizations, focusing on improving structural coherence and alignment among stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve cross-platform system primitives and structures, translating mission and product needs into durable system behaviors and producing artifacts that clarify system intent (PRDs, specs, evaluation criteria)
- Drive resolution of structural problems spanning multiple engineering organizations
- Build alignment across engineering leadership, design, and mission stakeholders
- Maintain convergence momentum across teams implementing shared capabilities
- Partner with Engineering Managers to translate structural intent into execution plans and hold convergence through delivery
- Stay engaged through delivery to ensure implementations converge on intended outcomes
- Identify architectural divergence early and drive corrective action
- Identify and drive resolution of cross-team dependencies arising from shared platform primitives and structural initiatives
Skills
- Experience operating at Staff level in TPM, product architecture, or engineer-to-PM hybrid roles
- Strong systems reasoning across distributed systems, identity/authorization, or platform architecture
- Demonstrated success shaping technical direction across multiple teams
- Demonstrated ability to drive cross-organizational technical initiatives through to outcome - articulating tradeoffs, aligning stakeholders, and landing durable decisions
- Credible communicator able to influence senior engineers and technical leadership across domains without relying on formal authority structures
- High ownership mindset in ambiguous environments
- Outstanding driver and communicator who identifies structural risks early - such as unclear ownership, missing definitions, or weak execution setup - and intervenes to correct course
- Background in platform, infrastructure, or security domains
- Experience with policy or authorization systems
- Multi-tenant or regulated environment exposure
- Experience operating in environments with decentralized ownership or competing platform abstractions
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Remote friendly with WeWork access
- Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
- 401(k) match
- Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
- Salary top-up during military reserve duty
- Fully paid parental leave
- Child and pet care reimbursement during travel
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