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Our high-performance radars work in all weather and are designed for autonomous vehicles, uncrewed aircraft & drones, and security of borders, critical infrastructure, and smart cities. The company combines the patented technology of metamaterials with powerful software to create a radar sensor with unprecedented performance at commercial price points. Echodyne offers its radars to companies working in Automotive, Transportation, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Border Security, Smart Cities, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Airspace Management including Urban Air Mobility (UTM).\nEchodyne is seeking a Strategic Proposal Manager to join our fast-growing team. \nROLE OVERVIEW\nEchodyne is seeking a Strategic Proposal Manager to own the development of bids, proposals, and formal customer responses from intake through final submission.\nThis role will translate solicitation requirements and customer priorities into compliant, persuasive responses using GovDash, approved content, prior proposals, customer research, and other source material. The Strategic Proposal Manager will engage subject matter experts when additional expertise or validation is needed and will own the accuracy, quality, and coherence of the final response.\nRESPONSIBILITIES\nOwn the end-to-end development and submission of RFPs, RFQs, RFIs, customer requests, and other formal responses.\nReview solicitations and translate requirements, evaluation criteria, and customer priorities into clear proposal strategies, schedules, assignments, compliance requirements, and deliverables.\nDevelop proposal content using GovDash, approved content, prior proposals, source materials, customer research, and other available resources.\nDetermine when existing content is sufficient and when additional cross-functional expertise or validation is required.\nInterview subject matter experts and translate technical, product, contractual, financial, and business input into clear, persuasive customer-facing content.\nCoordinate cross-functional contributors, track progress, manage documentation and version control, and ensure responses are complete, accurate, compliant, and delivered on time.\nReview and validate AI-assisted content for accuracy, supporting evidence, consistency, and unsupported claims before inclusion in customer-facing responses.\nOwn final proposal production and submission, including overall narrative coherence, formatting, required attachments, compliance checks, and submission requirements.\nMaintain and continuously improve proposal templates, approved content, reusable responses, and the proposal-content repository.\nTrack proposal outcomes, feedback, and lessons learned to improve content, processes, and future responses.\nREQUIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE\nStrong experience independently developing and managing RFPs, RFQs, proposals, bids, or other complex customer responses from intake through submission.\nExceptional writing, editing, proofreading, and content-development skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear and persuasive responses.\nStrong understanding of proposal compliance, including the ability to interpret solicitation requirements and evaluation criteria and translate them into a complete response.\nAbility to effectively interview and collaborate with subject matter experts while independently owning proposal development and final production.\nExceptional attention to detail with strong organizational and project management skills.\nAbility to manage multiple complex deadlines and coordinate effectively across technical, business, contracts, finance, and sales teams.\nStrong proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat, and related proposal or document management tools.\nDESIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE (Looking for one or more as a complement to the core skills)\nExperience supporting government, defense, aerospace, or other regulated or highly technical industries.\nFamiliarity with U.S. Government procurement, FAR/DFARS requirements, government submission portals, or prime contractor proposals.\nExperience with GovDash or similar AI-assisted proposal development platforms.\nExperience developing proposals for complex technical products, including responses involving cost and pricing volumes, contractual requirements, or export-controlled information.\nExperience building and maintaining reusable proposal-content libraries and using proposal outcomes and lessons learned to improve future responses.\nQUALIFICATIONS\nExperience independently developing and managing bids, proposals, RFPs/RFQs, or other formal customer responses in a complex B2B or technical environment.\nBachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.\nEchodyne’s technology is export controlled by the U.S. Government and we must evaluate an applicant’s eligibility to handle export-controlled information or obtain required Government authorizations. Therefore, we will ask you as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or green card holder, or have asylum/refugee status in the U.S. \nWHAT WE OFFER\nThis is an exempt role.\nThe expected annual salary range for this role is\n$104,030—$155,839 USD\nIf your skills generally align but not perfectly, please apply anyway. There may be another role that’s a great fit for you!\nWe offer competitive compensation and benefits to our full-time, US-based employees, including:\nRSU (Restricted Stock Units)\nGenerous Benefits:\nFully-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for you \nChoice of PPO or HDHP/HSA\nVirtual Care - 98Point6\nEmployee Assistance Program\nMental Health coverage through Springhealth & Talkspace (Premera)\nTravel Assistance Insurance\nCompany Paid Life Insurance\nCompany Paid Short & Long Term Disability\nFlexible PTO (exempt) / 15 days per year (non-exempt)\n401(k) match\nPet Insurance\nPrepaid Legal Program\nCommuter Benefits\nPaid Company Holidays\nAll qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected by law.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6310,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Life insurance","Restricted stock units","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["RF & Wireless Hardware","C4ISR"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-28T22:24:45Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":76,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.84,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":25,"expected_fill_days":47,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-24T06:02:35Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":155839,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/echodyne-corp-strategic-proposal-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/echodyne-corp-strategic-proposal-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-25T01:58:35Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2954,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-26T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":6413},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=6413"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fechodyne-corp-strategic-proposal-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fechodyne-corp-strategic-proposal-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fechodyne-corp-strategic-proposal-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/echodyne-corp-strategic-proposal-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fechodyne-corp-strategic-proposal-manager"}]}