Proposal Strategist

The role

You will lead the development and delivery of compliant responses for U.S. federal and defense opportunities. You will manage the proposal process from planning to submission and write technical content by interviewing subject-matter experts.

What you will do

• Lead development of proposals, RFIs, white papers, and other RFx deliverables
• Analyze solicitation instructions, evaluation criteria, and submission requirements
• Develop compliance matrices, proposal schedules, outlines, and review plans
• Lead proposal kickoffs, working sessions, and formal review cycles
• Coordinate inputs from engineering, product, business development, capture, finance, contracts, and legal
• Manage multiple concurrent responses and rapid-turn submissions
• Identify schedule, content, compliance, and resource risks
• Lead final integration, production, quality assurance, and on-time submission
• Interview subject-matter experts to develop technical narratives
• Edit contributions from multiple authors into a consistent voice

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, such as communications, marketing, English, computer science, engineering, or business, or equivalent professional experience
• Five or more years of experience managing proposals for U.S. federal, defense, or national security customers
• Demonstrated experience leading proposals from solicitation analysis through submission
• Significant hands-on experience writing and editing technical proposals, RFIs, or white papers
• Ability to quickly learn complex hardware or software products
• Experience managing multiple contributors, competing deadlines, and cross-functional dependencies
• Experience supporting both rapid-turn responses and larger, long-form proposals
• Exceptional writing, editing, communication, organization, and attention to detail
• Sound judgment and the ability to identify risks and resolve ambiguity
• Ability to obtain a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance
• Must be a U.S. citizen

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company
• 401k with 50% company match up to 6% of pay
• FSA
• HSA
• life insurance
• Free daily lunch
• No meeting Fridays
• unlimited PTO
• casual dress code
• pre-IPO stock option grants
• relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Requires an active U.S. government security clearance or the ability to obtain one

About the company

CHAOS Industries is a defense company founded in 2022 that uses Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™) to empower warfighters and commercial operators. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London.