Senior Proposals Writer

Via is using technology to transform transportation around the world. From changing a single person’s daily commute to reducing humanity’s collective environmental footprint — we’ve got huge goals.

As a Senior Proposals Writer at Via, you will work to improve mobility by forging new partnerships with public transit providers through thoughtful, exceptionally-written proposals. Working with senior members of the Strategy Team, you will develop a deep understanding of potential partners’ transportation challenges and goals, learn Via’s unique technical and operational strengths, and coordinate high-quality written proposals for effective shared mobility services.

What You'll Do:

• Hone your strategic thinking skills by coordinating with Via’s Partnerships, Expansion, and Finance teams to develop strategies for winning high-stakes, competitive procurements. 
• Absorb complex product specifications and distill into clear, easily-digestible prose. 
• Generate compelling original content by ascertaining a potential partner's needs and deploying your familiarity with Via’s technology and operational capabilities, transit norms, and the latest innovations from across the industry.
• Lead competitive procurements from beginning to end -- through evaluation, creation of exceptional proposal content, review, and submission.
• Conduct rigorous research on global mobility trends by analyzing news stories, new service announcements, scopes of work, and other forms of information and synthesizing findings into insightful commentary.
• Skillfully manage communications with potential partners over the phone and email.
• Support senior team members during interviews with cities and transit agencies.

Who You Are:

• Meticulous and strategic; you can pay attention to every detail in a complex project while, at the same time, relating each of them to the big picture in a coherent way.
• An exceptional writer and communicator with an instinctive appreciation for tone and structure; your colleagues have told you that they enjoy reading your work (and maybe you’ve even won awards).
• Socially-minded, action-oriented, and passionate about urbanism; you understand the importance of public transit and are motivated to improve worldwide access to mobility.
• Able to quickly switch gears to coordinate with teams across the company and team members from associate-level to C-suite. 
• An academic high-achiever, preferably in the humanities, social sciences, or another field that requires regular long-form writing and argumentation (undergraduate degree required; advanced degree preferred).
• It’s a plus if you have created and published an original and thoughtful essay, op-ed, or other piece of content; bonus points if it is on the subject of technology, transit, urbanism, mobility, business strategy, or a related topic.
• Our team boasts a diversity of academic and professional backgrounds: from Poetry PhDs to publishing veterans and policy analysts, many of whom had no prior proposal writing experience.
• It’s a plus if you have led (or played a leading role in) the development and success of a business or public sector proposal/pitch/deal/etc.
• It’s a plus if you have prior experience at a startup, transportation consulting firm, management consulting firm, or in the public sector.

What We Offer:

• All final pay rates will be determined by candidates experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data
• Salary Range: $85,000-$160,000
• Comprehensive health coverage, with low-cost dental and vision plans
• A 401(k) with company match and vesting
• Fully paid parental leave for new parents, with extended leave options
• Additional benefits (mental health, pet insurance, and other wellness perks)

We’re Via, and we build technology that changes the way the world moves. We’re driven by a simple mission: to create modern and efficient public transportation systems that provide far greater access to jobs, healthcare, and education. With our best in class suite of products, we make transit thrive. 

Our teams of world-class engineers, data-scientists, product managers, operations specialists, marketers, transit experts and more bring cutting-edge AI-powered software and innovative technology-enabled operations to our partners across the globe. Founded in 2012, Via builds solutions to digitize, automate, and enable data-driven decision making for entire transportation networks; fixed-route buses, microtransit, paratransit, school buses, autonomous vehicles, and more. 

If you’re excited to be at the forefront of modernizing the future of transportation, are up for solving tough problems, and willing to become/already are a transit nerd, we are the place for you. Even if your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description for this role, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities. 

Ready to join the ride?

Via is an equal opportunity employer.

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