Proposal Writer Team Lead

SAIC • Reston, VA

5h • Hybrid

About The Position

SAIC is looking for a skilled Proposal Writer Team Lead to directly supervise a segment of 8-10 Proposal Development Center (PDC) writers. The Team Lead must exhibit strong leadership and coaching, writing, and solid AI use skills to manage writing and content deliverables. The successful candidate should live within commuting distance of Northern Virginia and/or the greater Washington metropolitan area. This position allows flexibility for remote work provided the candidate possesses the flexibility to travel and, when necessary, collaborate in-office (Reston, VA) to meet proposal requirements.
As the Proposal Writer Team Lead, you will oversee a team of writers, ensuring the consistent delivery of high-performance outcomes. Collaborating closely with SAIC experts, team members, and PDC leadership, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring and overseeing the development of compliant and compelling proposals in response to Federal Government solicitations.
What You’ll Do - Key Responsibilities:
Manage and lead a team of writers, providing administrative and performance management support.
Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, both internally and externally, to strengthen the PDC’s position in the proposal process.
Offer ad-hoc training, coaching, and general guidance on best practices for proposal quality and customer service.
Write and lead technical, management, resume, and past performance sections and volumes.
Collaborate within a team to clearly articulate the solution, strategy, approach to work, experience, win themes and discriminators.
Utilize communication and interviewing skills to gather essential information from internal and external stakeholders to support writing activities.
Craft clear, persuasive, and articulate proposal sections, translating complex ideas into easily understandable text.
Develop and implement process improvements and training to enhance proposal quality.
In this role you will join a team that enjoys a team culture, and collaborative engagement with all levels of proposal contributors and stakeholders.
You have a hunger for knowledge, a thirst for quality, and an eye for accuracy. You have strong critical thinking skills and easily digest technically complex information. Each proposal offers you an opportunity to learn about exciting innovations that sustain and support our government, including our military.
Your strengths with the written word, communications, and the English language (grammar nerds welcomed and embraced), will be appreciated throughout the proposal development process. Your expertise in weaving in win strategies, themes, and discriminators into proposal artifacts means you are making an impact to important solutions supporting our customers.
What SAIC Offers
We empower you to paint our proposals with your creative and analytical skills. SAIC is dedicated to your professional development and career growth with our mature mentor-protégé program and robust training opportunities (e.g., emerging technologies, leadership development, and industry best practices).
In this deadline-driven industry, we offer you competitive compensation, a flexible work schedule, and work-life balance.
Don’t take our word for it… some of SAIC’s recognition includes:
Leader in Artificial Intelligence (2025): SAIC was named a leader in AI services for both national civilian government and U.S. defense and intelligence agencies by IDC MarketScape.
Best Place to Work (2025-2026): For the second consecutive year, SAIC was named a Glassdoor Best Place to Work (2025/2026)
Top Veteran Employer (2025)
Innovative Software Award (2024-2025): The Business Intelligence Group named SAIC's ReadyOne™ software a winner at the 2024 BIG Innovation Awards.
Top Supplier Diversity (2025): The company received the National HUBZone Council Trailblazer Supplier Diversity Award.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with 18+ years of experience, Master's with 16 years of experience.
• 10+ years of experience as a proposal writer responding to Federal Government solicitations.
• Proven success in writing and leading technical, management, resume, and/or past performance volumes for complex efforts.
• Excellent writing skills.
• Solid use in AI platforms to develop proposal content.
• Strong organizational and leadership skills.
• Ability to coach and instruct others to ensure consistency and quality.
• Strong work ethic with a commitment to ongoing excellence and growth.
• Must be a US Citizen
• Candidates must have the ability to get a secret clearance

Nice To Haves

• Solid experience using various AI platforms
• Experience with FEDSIM/AAS, OTA, and Self-Scoring bids is a plus
• Knowledge of infrastructure modernization, applications/software development and sustainment, cloud solutions, warfighter solutions, and agile methodologies for defense, civilian, space, and National security sectors of the federal government

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead a team of writers, providing administrative and performance management support.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, both internally and externally, to strengthen the PDC’s position in the proposal process.
• Offer ad-hoc training, coaching, and general guidance on best practices for proposal quality and customer service.
• Write and lead technical, management, resume, and past performance sections and volumes.
• Collaborate within a team to clearly articulate the solution, strategy, approach to work, experience, win themes and discriminators.
• Utilize communication and interviewing skills to gather essential information from internal and external stakeholders to support writing activities.
• Craft clear, persuasive, and articulate proposal sections, translating complex ideas into easily understandable text.
• Develop and implement process improvements and training to enhance proposal quality.

Benefits

• competitive compensation
• a flexible work schedule
• work-life balance
• mentor-protégé program
• robust training opportunities (e.g., emerging technologies, leadership development, and industry best practices)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level