Sr. Proposal Manager

Location: Fairfax, Virginia, United States; primarily remote with on-site support at the Fairfax office as business needs require

Company

hirify.global delivers technology and professional services supporting federal government customers and strategic growth initiatives.

What you will do

• Manage complex, high-value federal proposals from RFP release through submission, including schedules, milestones, reviews, compliance, and risk mitigation.
• Lead proposal kickoffs, daily stand-ups, color team reviews, oral proposal preparation, storyboards, scripts, and rehearsals.
• Coordinate proposal analysts, graphic designers, technical contributors, subcontractors, contracts, pricing, and geographically distributed stakeholders.
• Write, edit, and improve management approaches, transition plans, past performance citations, resumes, quality plans, and other proposal content.
• Partner with capture, business development, account, solution architecture, and subject matter experts to develop win themes and customer-focused narratives.
• Use generative AI, proposal automation, knowledge repositories, and performance data to improve proposal operations and win probability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in English, Marketing, Communications, or a similar field.
• 7+ years of experience in federal proposal development, including experience managing $100M+ proposal efforts.
• Experience with complex proposals in DoD, Federal Civilian, and/or Intelligence Community sectors.
• Strong leadership, organizational, communication, writing, editing, and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple proposals under tight deadlines.
• Experience supporting capture strategy, competitive positioning, win theme creation, and distributed teams across locations and time zones.
• Exceptional proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, plus demonstrated experience applying generative AI to proposal development.

Nice to have

• APMP Practitioner or Professional certification.
• Shipley training or equivalent proposal development methodology training.
• Experience with proposal automation and knowledge management platforms.
• Experience leading GSA FEDSIM proposals.
• TS/SCI eligibility.

Culture & Benefits

• Primarily remote work with the ability to support the Fairfax office on site when business needs require.
• Collaborative team environment focused on storytelling, quality, efficiency, excellence, and timeliness.
• Regular collaboration with executive leadership, account executives, capture professionals, solution architects, operations managers, and teaming partners.