Proposal Manager

Location: Full-time onsite in Washington, D.C., United States; light travel of less than 10% to the Los Angeles headquarters and strategic meetings or events.

Salary: $140,000–$180,000 per year in base compensation, excluding bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops defense and critical-industry technologies powered by Coherent Distributed Networks, serving warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams.

What you will do

• Lead proposals, RFIs, sources-sought responses, market-research responses, white papers, and other RFx deliverables from planning through submission.
• Analyze solicitations and evaluation criteria, and maintain compliance matrices, schedules, outlines, review plans, and production checklists.
• Coordinate engineering, product, business development, capture, finance, contracts, legal, partners, and subcontractors.
• Interview subject-matter experts and write original technical content from limited source material or a blank page.
• Translate complex hardware and software concepts into clear, customer-focused narratives and tailor content to mission needs and evaluation criteria.
• Lead reviews, final integration, quality assurance, portal upload, and on-time submission while identifying delivery and compliance risks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, English, computer science, engineering, business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Five or more years of proposal management experience for U.S. federal, defense, or national security customers.
• Hands-on experience writing and editing technical proposals, RFIs, white papers, or similar customer-facing responses.
• Experience managing multiple contributors, competing deadlines, cross-functional dependencies, and both rapid-turn and long-form proposals.
• Exceptional writing, editing, communication, organization, judgment, and attention to detail.
• Ability to obtain a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits fully paid by the company.
• 401(k) with a 50% company match up to 6% of pay, plus FSA, HSA, and life insurance.
• Free daily lunch, no-meeting Fridays, unlimited PTO, and a casual dress code.
• Competitive base salary, pre-IPO stock options, relocation assistance, and planned annual bonuses.
• Work with a growing organization of more than 350 employees across five global offices.