Proposal & Content Writer
Skills
Business InsightsLanding PagesLaw EnforcementOperationsOpportunity IdentificationRequest For ProposalSales
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- 2-5 years spanning both structured proposal writing and marketing or editorial content
- Experience at a fast-growing startup in govtech public safety or civic tech
- Direct exposure to GTM and product teams preferred
- Clear examples of winning contracts against larger better-known competitors
- Strong municipal research instincts
- Comfortable reading and synthesizing regulatory and statutory language
- Assertive enough to push internal teams for better material
- Built proposal or content infrastructure from scratch
- Track contract wins not RFP completions
- Strong opinions about good writing
Nice to have
- Strategic
- Persuasive
- Detail-oriented
- Research-driven
- Assertive
- Collaborative
Day to day
- Own RFP responses end-to-end from opportunity identification through contract award, keeping timelines tight and stakeholders accountable.
- Research municipalities deeply, including Vision Zero plans crash data council priorities incumbent history and statutes, then translate findings into persuasive proposal language.
- Build a strong external voice through blogs op-eds thought leadership and customer-facing collateral that clearly explains Obvio's value and impact.