Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Obvio is a company focused on preventing traffic deaths through innovative technology. They are seeking a Proposal & Content Writer who will be responsible for crafting compelling proposals and marketing content that effectively communicates the company's mission and differentiates it from competitors.
Responsibilities
- Own RFP responses end-to-end from opportunity identification through contract award: set deadlines, hold internal teams accountable, and chase down whatever is needed to make the response sharper
- Ask the right questions before writing: what does this municipality care about, what did the incumbent get wrong, and what data do we have that speaks directly to them
- Research each municipality before writing: Vision Zero plans, crash data, council priorities, legislative landscape, incumbent vendor history, and relevant state statutes; translate legal requirements into accurate proposal language
- Partner closely with our operations and technical teams to ensure every response is grounded in what we can actually deliver
- Build and maintain a proposal asset library of reusable prose, briefs, and graphics: compliance language by state, case studies, data points, and personnel bios so each response starts from a strong base
- Monitor procurement channels and flag relevant opportunities to the sales team
- Build a content playbook from scratch: decide what to write, where to publish, and how to turn our customer results and market insights into a recognizable external voice
- Write blog posts, op-eds, and thought leadership on traffic safety, enforcement policy, and community outcomes
- Produce customer-facing collateral: one-pagers, product explainers, capability statements, landing pages, conference material, and sales documents
- Maintain a consistent voice across everything Obvio publishes
Skills
- 2-5 years spanning both structured proposal writing and marketing or editorial content
- Experience at a fast-growing startup in govtech, public safety, or civic tech, preferably with direct exposure to GTM and product teams
- Clear examples of winning contracts against larger, better-known competitors on the strength of the proposal
- Strong municipal research instincts: you know how to find what an agency cares about
- Comfortable reading and synthesizing regulatory and statutory language
- Assertive enough to push internal teams for better material. 'We don't have that' is not an acceptable answer if getting it would make the doc win
- You've built proposal or content infrastructure from scratch: templates, asset banks, compliance trackers
- You track contract wins, not RFP completions
- You have opinions about what good writing looks like and can defend them
Benefits
- Your work will help save lives and improve road safety
- Series A of $22M led by Bain Capital
- Fast-moving startup environment with meaningful ownership
- Competitive compensation and early-stage equity
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