Vannevar Labs
Silicon Valley technology for the country's most critical national security problems
Senior Growth Director
Growth MarketingGrowth MarketingFull TimeRemoteTeam 11-50Since 2019H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn
Location
United States
Posted
61 days ago
Salary
$180K - $250K / year
Bachelor Degree8 yrs expEnglish
Job Description
• Shape & execute growth strategies
• Drive full-cycle pursuit strategies for PEO and PMW opportunities—from early shaping, to capture, to competitive positioning, to contract close.
• Identify program headwinds, acquisition timelines, budget patterns, and technical needs to define where Vannevar can build meaningful, wedge-in footholds.
• Translate long-term PEO priorities into actionable near-term BD and capture campaigns.
• Build and own senior customer relationships
• Develop trusted relationships across program offices.
• Serve as a strategic partner to senior USN leaders, understanding constraints, modernization plans, and where Vannevar’s technologies can enable operational advantage.
• Deliver major growth outcomes
• Shape, pursue, and secure multi-year programs and new starts in the $25M–$50M+ annual range.
• Own opportunity qualification, bid/no-bid recommendations, competitive analysis, teaming strategy, and price-to-win perspectives.
• Lead internal coordination across engineering, product, mission, legal, and leadership to ensure high-probability, high-quality proposals.
• Build pipeline and forecast growth
• Build a disciplined pipeline across targeted PEO portfolios and maintain clear visibility into opportunity stages, risks, and maturity.
• Partner with Mission Systems leadership to connect long-term strategic campaigns with near-term capture actions and resource needs.
• Represent Vannevar to customers and partners
• Communicate Vannevar’s value proposition, product capabilities, and technical differentiation to senior acquisition and program leaders.
• Collaborate with industry partners and primes when teaming magnifies probability of win or program execution success.
Job Requirements
- 8+ years in defense growth or business development with proven experience shaping and winning meaningful programs.
- Deep familiarity with PEO structures, PMWs, acquisition pathways, and budget cycles
- Demonstrated experience driving early program shaping, customer intimacy, requirements influence, and competitive capture strategy.
- Ability to own large, complex pursuits—from identifying early-stage opportunities to leading proposal development and closing.
- Experience interacting with senior Navy leaders, government stakeholders, and industry counterparts with trust, credibility, and discretion.
- Strong strategic instincts—able to zoom out to understand multi-year PEO strategies while driving day-to-day capture execution.
- Hunger to operate inside a fast-paced national security startup, where ambiguity is constant and ownership is large.
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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