Proposal and Capture Strategist

The role

You will lead complex, high-stakes proposals from strategy through submission. You will manage multiple stakeholders and produce executive-quality narratives to articulate value propositions.

What you will do

• Lead proposal development on mid-to-large efforts.
• Manage full proposal efforts independently.
• Lead capture planning for assigned opportunities.
• Apply acquisition strategy to shape proposal approach and win strategy.
• Produce executive-quality proposal narratives, win themes, and discriminators.
• Shape technical narratives by engaging with technical subject matter experts.
• Establish design and production standards.
• Review and improve others' work.
• Develop storyboards and graphics guidance.
• Drive on-time delivery across complex efforts.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Communications, English, Engineering, or related STEM field (or equivalent experience) plus 8-11 years’ experience with the Government solicitation process, with deep expe
• Master’s degree plus 6 years’ experience.
• PhD plus 3 years’ experience.
• Proven track record of independently leading and winning complex, multi-hundred-million-dollar proposals to award.
• Deep experience managing and winning competitive Program of Record (POR)-level U.S. Department of War solicitations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead capture planning for assigned opportunities, including win strategy development, teaming, and competitive analysis.
• Strong acquisition and contracting knowledge with the ability to apply nuanced understanding of acquisition strategy to shape proposal approaches.
• Excellent writing skills with demonstrated ability to produce executive-quality proposal narratives, win themes, discriminators, and storyboards.
• Proven ability to establish design and production standards for proposal efforts and review/improve others’ work.
• Solid fluency in technical products, capabilities, and mission contexts with the ability to shape technical narratives.
• Outstanding project management skills with the ability to independently manage full proposal efforts and drive on-time delivery.
• Experience with proposal libraries, content management systems, and information management best practices.

Nice to have

• Active TS or TS/SCI clearance
• SAP experience
• Start-up experience
• Previous experience with a major U.S. Defense Contractor (space sector ideal)

Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• HSA/HRA options
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) for exempt employees
• Accrued PTO of up to 25 days for non-exempt employees
• 12 paid holidays
• Parental Leave
• Sick Leave
• Daily catered lunch and unlimited snacks for in-office employees
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Fitness reimbursement
• Dog Fridays
• Equity participation

Before you apply

• To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligib
• We use third-party tools to verify applicant identity and detect fraudulent applications.

About the company

True Anomaly delivers decisive capabilities for space superiority. They build autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors.