Staff Technical Product Manager

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

Requirements:

• 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