Via

Senior Proposals Writer

Via • $85K — $160K *
New York, NY 10025In-Person
Transportation
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in proposal writing or related field; experience in transportation sector is a plus.
  • Exceptional writing and communication skills; experience may include published content or recognized work.
  • Academic background in humanities, social sciences, or similar fields; advanced degree preferred.
  • Ability to manage complex projects with attention to detail and strategic oversight.
  • Experience in collaborative environments, working across various levels of an organization.
  • Demonstrated understanding of urbanism and public transit dynamics; passion for improving mobility.
  • Experience in startups, consulting, or public sector roles is advantageous.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate with internal teams to devise winning strategies for competitive procurements.
  • Transform complex product specifications into clear proposal content.
  • Craft original, compelling proposals tailored to partner needs and aligned with Via's strengths.
  • Lead the proposal process from start to finish, ensuring thorough evaluations and successful submissions.
  • Conduct research on global mobility trends and synthesize insights for proposals.
  • Manage communications with potential partners effectively across various channels.
  • Assist senior members during partner interviews to enhance proposal outcomes.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage with low-cost dental and vision plans.
  • 401(k) plan with company matching and vesting.
  • Fully paid parental leave with options for extended leave.
  • Mental health support and wellness perks, including pet insurance.
Full Job Description
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)

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About Via

Via Transportation, Inc. is a global public transport, logistics, and TransitTech company headquartered in New York City. Via licenses its technology to cities, transportation authorities, school districts, universities, and private organizations to help build their own technology-driven transportation networks. It operates in partnership with over 400 local governments across more than 20 countries globally, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Israel, Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, Brazil, Indonesia, Finland, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. In October 2020, Via acquired the logistics company Fleetonomy to accelerate its entry into the last-mile deliveries industry. In March 2021, Via purchased the transportation planning platform Remix for $100M to create the first end-to-end TransitTech platform for cities and transit agencies.
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Industry
Transportation
Founded
2016
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