We're a small team that handles the whole government bidding process for our clients, from finding opportunities to submitting the proposal. We built the company around AI from day one, and it's why a few people can handle the volume of work we do. Everyone here works with AI every day, through our own workflows, plugins, and agents that handle the research, matching, and drafting.
US state and local governments spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year with private companies, and most of that money is still awarded through a slow, paper-heavy process. We're trying to make it work better for the companies bidding.
We help American companies win government contracts with state agencies, cities, counties, school districts, and universities. We find the opportunities, decide which ones are worth bidding on, and write the proposals. AI does most of the drafting. People make the decisions, and this role makes a lot of them.
You'll manage a group of client accounts. You'll decide what each client should bid on, collect what we need from them, and stand behind every proposal we submit on their behalf.
Our clients and the agencies they sell to are in the US, so you'll need to write and speak English at a native level. You'll read US procurement documents every day and talk regularly with US executives, and our proposals need to hold up in front of the people scoring them.
By the time an opportunity reaches you, our system has already matched it to a client and summarized it. You decide whether we go for it. We'd rather send fewer proposals with a real chance of winning than many weak ones.
Each week we review every proposal due that week. You'll be asked why the opportunity is a good fit, what the work actually involves, what's still missing, what you need from the client, and why you picked one case study over another. You need real answers to those questions.
Certifications, case studies, references, insurance certificates, org charts. Clients are busy and these things slip. You need to keep asking until you get them, and do it in a way that keeps the relationship in good shape.
Drafts come to you already written. Your job is to make them better: fix weak arguments, cut what doesn't need to be there, and catch anything that reads like AI slop. If you'd rather rewrite every sentence yourself, this job will feel too slow for you.
Much of how we operate is still being worked out, including how we pick bids, how we communicate with clients, how the weekly review runs, and where a person needs to step in. You'll have a real say in all of that. This role suits someone who'd like to help build the process, not someone looking for one that's already set.
You catch the requirement everyone else missed, like an insurance minimum or a form that has to be notarized. One miss can sink a proposal.
You know where it's sharp and where it gets things wrong.
You can decide whether a company has a real shot at a contract, and defend that call with evidence.
A uniform supplier, a marketing firm and a software company might all come up in the same week.
You can spot vague or padded writing and say exactly what's wrong with it.
You turn a pile of material into a recommendation an executive acts on.
You talk to founders and executives every day. You build trust, chase what you need, and can tell a CEO "no."
Several clients and several deadlines every week.
Native English speaker.
Experience with proposals, bids, or tenders is a plus. Experience with US public-sector procurement is a big plus.
Send your CV & LinkedIn profile to jon.gross@sledai.com