Manager, Proposal Content & Quality

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary content editor and quality assurance lead for new business proposals, ensuring clarity, consistency, and strategic alignment throughout.
• Edit proposals with true editorial judgment: strengthen narrative flow, sharpen positioning, improve differentiation, and align recommendations to client goals.
• Elevate persuasive writing across proposals by improving logic, prioritization, and impact, ensuring proposals are compelling to executive decision-makers.
• Bring a creative writer’s sensibility to language, structure, and storytelling, transforming rough inputs into crisp, confident, human content.
• Identify gaps, redundancies, or inconsistencies in messaging, case studies, and recommendations, and proactively recommend improvements.
• Select, tailor, and refine case studies and supporting proof points to clearly demonstrate relevance and outcomes.
• Partner with account leads, subject matter experts, and senior leadership to pressure-test ideas, sharpen framing, and strengthen the “why now” narrative.
• Use AI strategically to accelerate drafting, improve options, and iterate quickly, while applying human editorial standards to ensure nuance, credibility, and originality.
• Demonstrate strong PowerPoint judgment with an eye for clean design: improve slide hierarchy, layout, pacing, and clarity so the deck supports the story and drives the close.
• Manage multiple proposals simultaneously, prioritizing effectively across deadlines, stakeholders, and proposal complexity without sacrificing quality.
• Maintain and improve proposal templates, content libraries, and editorial guidelines to raise overall quality and speed over time.
• Apply learnings from wins, losses, and feedback to continuously improve proposal effectiveness and consistency.

Qualifications

• 4 - 8 years of experience in public relations, communications, marketing, or related agency environments.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills, including creative writing capability and demonstrated ability to make content feel editorial, precise, and persuasive.
• Strong editorial judgment and critical thinking, with the ability to evaluate content beyond grammar, including logic, positioning, structure, and impact.
• Experience writing, editing, or owning proposals, pitch decks, and new business materials.
• Comfortable using AI tools for drafting and iteration, with strong prompting skills and the discipline to refine outputs until they meet a high bar.
• Strong PowerPoint proficiency, with excellent taste for clean layout, hierarchy, and narrative pacing.
• Highly organized, deadline-driven, and able to manage many projects at once while prioritizing based on business urgency.
• High attention to detail without losing sight of the big picture.
• Confidence providing clear, constructive feedback to senior stakeholders and influencing toward stronger work.

The Perks

• A competitive benefits package—including comprehensive medical/dental/vision coverage, vacation/sick leave/holiday PTO, 401(k), Flex Fridays, flexible remote work options, and Summer Fridays.