Proposal Specialist

• Read, understand, and communicate the highly complex requirements of new customer opportunities.

• Develop and manage proposal schedules.

• Draft proposal outlines.

• Manage section authors from across the company, setting and enforcing deadlines and expectations.

• Work with technical staff to gather and draft technical information for commercial and government proposals.

• Help develop creative arguments and talking points into compelling executive summaries and proposal text tailored for each opportunity.

• Work with technical and business staff to resolve open issues and questions about proposal text, figures, and tables.

• Help identify and develop supporting graphics.

• Edit and rewrite as necessary for clarity, logic, and readability.

• Fact-check information and flag technical errors.

• Edit for spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

• Ensure documents conform to company format and editorial style.

• Ensure proposals comply with customer instructions.

• Guide documents through review and approval processes.

• Prepare documents for print. Produce required copies and arrange delivery.

• Help develop and improve deliverable templates.

• Help improve and streamline the proposal development process.

• Help maintain repository of frequently used proposal information.

• Support Mission Management, Sales, and other SpaceX organizations with editing, writing, publication, and communication.

• Bachelor's degree.

• 5+ years of experience publishing documents and/or editing the work of others.

• 5+ years of experience editing at the organizational, structural, sentence, fact-checking, and proofreading levels.

• 2+ years of experience in the professional-level preparation of documents for publication in Microsoft Office (2007 or more recent), or 5+ years of experience with a non-Office word-processing program and desktop-publishing software.

• Degree in journalism, English, technical writing, or professional writing.

• Experience with proposal or grant writing.

• Ability, or potential, to help implement proposal strategy.

• Knowledge of government or commercial proposals.

• Experience writing captions or headlines.

• Experience following an editorial style guide.

• Ability to turn strings of buzz words or jargon into coherent writing.

• Strong grasp of language, including nuance and tone.

• Proven ability to work under the pressure of long- and short-term deadlines.

• Demonstrated record of successfully planning and completing both short- and long-term projects.

• Demonstrated leadership, influence, and collaboration skills.

• Demonstrated organizational skills.

• Demonstrated attention to detail.

• Basic knowledge of SpaceX's mission, business model, and competition.

• Must be open to extended hours and/or weekends to meet critical deadlines and business need.

• This role is based out in Hawthorne, CA and requires you to be onsite. No hybrid or remote work will be considered.

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here .

SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX's Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should reach out to EEOCompliance@spacex.com .