Responsibilities

• Lead and Develop a High-Performing Content Team: Build team capability through coaching, mentorship, workload management, editorial leadership, and professional development.
• Drive Proposal Content Strategy and Quality: Establish and maintain editorial standards, messaging frameworks, and proposal content best practices that strengthen proposal quality, consistency, clarity, and competitiveness.
• Shape Customer-Centric Proposal Narratives: Develop persuasive, evaluator-focused messaging aligned to customer priorities, procurement requirements, strategic win themes, and Scientific Games’ competitive differentiation.
• Translate Business and Technical Complexity into Clear Messaging: Synthesize operational, commercial, and technical concepts into compelling narratives that communicate value, innovation, and strategic advantage effectively.
• Partner Cross-Functionally to Support Pursuit Strategy: Collaborate with Commercial leadership, Sales Enablement, Proposal Management, Product teams, Solution Architects, SMEs, and executive stakeholders to align proposal messaging with opportunity strategy and positioning.
• Lead Executive-Level Strategic Writing: Oversee and contribute directly to high-visibility proposal content, including executive summaries, management approaches, transition strategies, strategic narratives, and other critical response components.
• Provide Editorial Leadership Across Major Pursuits: Support Proposal Managers and proposal teams through content refinement, editorial guidance, and strategic messaging support during proposal review cycles to ensure consistency, responsiveness, and a unified voice across deliverables.
• Integrate Visual and Written Storytelling Strategies: Partner with graphic design and desktop publishing teams to ensure graphics, layouts, infographics, and visual elements reinforce proposal messaging and improve evaluator engagement.
• Build and Evolve Reusable Content Resources: Strategize, maintain, and continuously improve proposal libraries, reusable boilerplate, templates, style guides, messaging repositories, and AI-enabled content tools to improve efficiency, scalability, content quality, and proposal effectiveness.
• Drive Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to enhance proposal operations, content effectiveness, collaboration models, and integrated communications capabilities through continuous improvement, innovation, and thoughtful adoption of emerging technologies and AI-enabled solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, Communications, Marketing, Business, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in proposal writing, proposal management, strategic communications, content strategy, or related leadership roles.
• Demonstrated success leading proposal content development for complex, high-value competitive procurements.
• Exceptional writing, editing, proofreading, and strategic storytelling capabilities, including development of executive summaries and high-impact proposal narratives.
• Proven people leadership experience, including management, mentorship, workload prioritization, coaching, and development of high-performing proposal or content teams.
• Strong understanding of government procurement and RFx processes.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex operational, technical, and commercial concepts into persuasive evaluator-focused messaging.
• Strong business acumen and ability to collaborate effectively with Commercial leadership, Sales Enablement, Product teams, SMEs, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong organizational, communication, and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities under aggressive deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills with the ability to influence across cross-functional teams.

Preferred

• APMP certification or equivalent proposal industry experience.
• Experience within lottery, gaming, technology, SaaS, or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience supporting enterprise-level or global pursuits.
• Experience guiding visual storytelling and proposal presentation strategies in partnership with design and publishing teams.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled proposal tools, content management platforms, and emerging technologies that support proposal development, knowledge management, and content optimization.