Program Manager - Hacking for Defense
Run the most consequential classroom in national security
Hacking for Defense® started as a course at Stanford University and became one of the most recognized brands in defense innovation: real military problems, taught at more than 60 universities, worked by the sharpest university students in the country, using the methods that built Silicon Valley. Some of those student teams became companies and some now field capabilities to the warfighter.
BMNT runs H4D® for DIU’s Innovation with Academia (IWA) portfolio, and we need the right person to run it day to day. You will find impactful problems to be worked on during a semester at elite universities, get commitments from government problem sponsors, keep dozens of educators and mission partners moving in the right direction, and then make sure the best work doesn’t die at a demo day. This is not program administration. This is operating the pipeline between the next generation of founders and the missions that need them.
What you’ll actually do:
- Own the client. Be the trusted, daily interface to DIU’s IWA Program Director and Department of War counterparts. Their priorities become your operating plan.
- Hunt problems. Lead global sourcing operations that turn real needs from bas
