Key skills
Data CollectionNational Security Domain KnowledgeData AcquisitionData Platform/Product ExperienceAgentic SystemsTechnical Requirements DecompositionPrioritizationAutonomyGoAIAgentic
About this role
Vannevar is a defense technology company building AI to deter adversaries. As a Product Manager for Data Collection, you will lead efforts to ensure mission data is effectively collected and utilized, collaborating with engineering and mission teams to enhance data collection strategies.
Responsibilities:
- Live with our mission users. Go onsite with our mission team and users to build domain knowledge and your own understanding of the mission problems and workflows our users have
- Master our data and capabilities. We’ve built world-class data collection for some key national security data sets. Understand how we’ve built it, what our differentiators are, and how to take it to the next level
- Scope and prioritize data collection. Turn ambiguous user / mission needs into our data collection strategy in partnership with our customer and engineering (datasets, sources, latency, coverage, etc.) teams
- Work with engineering and mission to prioritize and execute these collection efforts
- Collection strategy for agents. Ensure collected data is usable by agents (tool-call readiness, retrieval patterns, schemas/metadata, evaluation loops, etc.). Identify gaps where the right data isn’t getting into agent tool calls and coordinate fixes
- Partner with teams to align data and mission workflows as a coherent advantage
- Enable Collection Engineering to move fast. Develop repeatable processes for intake, scoping, execution, launch, and evaluation for data collection requests
- Partner with the Collection engineering team to solve other problems
Requirements:
- Care deeply about the mission: the data we collect is enabling massive, generational impact across many national security missions
- Have strong mission intuition: you can decompose messy operational needs into concrete technical requirements
- Can collaborate deeply with engineers
- Are comfortable making hard prioritization calls with incomplete information
- Communicate crisply: can write a one-pager that aligns stakeholders and drives action
- Experience with data acquisition / collection, national security problems and workflows, data platform/product work
- Familiarity with agentic systems and what makes data 'tool-call ready'
- Prior roles in defense/intelligence mission contexts (or adjacent high-stakes operational environments)