Proposal & Marketing Specialist

Responsibilities

• Lead commercial, manufacturing, and mission critical/data center proposals, qualifications packages, presentations, and other competitive pursuits from strategy and kickoff through final submission.
• Develop pursuit strategies, win themes, differentiators, storyboards, and client-focused messaging in collaboration with Business Development, technical professionals, and operations leadership.
• Help drive and support the practical application and adoption of generative AI and emerging marketing technologies, identifying opportunities to improve proposal development, research, content creation, editing, compliance, quality assurance, knowledge retrieval, and other marketing workflows.
• Manage multiple concurrent pursuits, schedules, assignments, reviews, and deadlines while maintaining a high standard of quality.
• Write, edit, and develop compelling proposal content, executive summaries, project descriptions, resumes, presentations, and other marketing materials.
• Translate complex architectural, engineering, commissioning, and technical information into clear, persuasive, client-focused communications.
• Identify opportunities to communicate technical concepts through graphics, diagrams, infographics, presentations, and other forms of visual storytelling.
• Develop high-quality marketing materials appropriate for architecture firms, data center clients, owners, developers, commercial clients, and other sophisticated A/E audiences.
• Help improve how project experience, resumes, past performance, proposal content, and other institutional knowledge are captured, organized, retrieved, and reused.
• Collaborate with Federal and regional marketing leadership to share resources, knowledge, and best practices across the broader marketing organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, English, Journalism, Design, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• 7+ years of marketing, proposal, pursuit, or related professional-services experience within the architecture, engineering, construction (A/E/C), or consulting industry.
• Experience working within an architecture or A/E marketing environment or developing high-quality marketing and proposal materials for architects, design professionals, and other sophisticated A/E audiences.
• Practical experience using generative and agentic AI or other emerging technologies in marketing, proposal development, research, content development, editing, quality assurance, or related workflows.
• Demonstrated experience independently leading complex proposals, qualifications packages, presentations, and other competitive pursuits.
• Exceptional writing, editing, organization, and project-management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent pursuits and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work effectively with architects, engineers, commissioning professionals, technical specialists, Business Development staff, and senior leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical information into clear, compelling, client-focused communications.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Adobe InDesign.

Preferred

• 10+ years of A/E marketing, proposal, pursuit, communications, or related professional-services marketing experience.
• CPSM certification or active involvement with SMPS or similar A/E industry organizations.
• Experience supporting mission critical facilities, data centers, commercial buildings, commissioning, building systems, energy, sustainability, healthcare, higher education, or other technically complex facilities.
• Demonstrated experience applying generative AI beyond basic content generation, including workflow automation, knowledge retrieval, compliance review, quality assurance, content reuse, data analysis, or process improvement.
• Experience developing or improving project databases, resume systems, content libraries, CRM systems, knowledge-management platforms, or other marketing technology solutions, including systems utilizing AI.

Benefits

• Comprehensive and market-competitive benefits
• Merit-based financial rewards
• Flexibility and company-wide commitment to work/life balance
• Collaborative team atmosphere that values the contributions of all employees
• Learning and development opportunities for ongoing professional growth.