Proposal Strategist

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

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

Company

hirify.global develops defense, national security, and critical-industry technologies powered by Coherent Distributed Networks.

What you will do

• Lead proposals, requests for information, sources-sought responses, market-research responses, white papers, and other RFx deliverables.
• Analyze solicitation instructions, evaluation criteria, amendments, and submission requirements.
• Develop compliance matrices, schedules, outlines, work assignments, review plans, and production checklists.
• Coordinate engineering, product, business development, capture, finance, contracts, legal, partner, and subcontractor contributors.
• Write original technical content, interview subject-matter experts, translate complex concepts, and tailor responses to customer needs.
• Lead review cycles, final integration, quality assurance, portal upload, submission, and proposal process improvements.

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.
• Experience leading proposals from solicitation analysis and planning through review, production, and submission.
• Significant hands-on experience writing and editing technical proposals, RFIs, white papers, or similar customer-facing responses.
• Ability to learn complex hardware or software products and manage multiple contributors, deadlines, and dependencies.
• 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, FSA, HSA, and life insurance.
• Free daily lunch, no-meeting Fridays, unlimited PTO, and a casual dress code.
• Relocation assistance, pre-IPO stock option grants, and planned annual bonuses.
• Work with a growing organization of more than 350 employees across five global offices.