Senior Lead, Proposal Writer

Lime is the world's largest shared electric vehicle company. We’re on a mission to build a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free. Our electric bikes and scooters have powered 700+ million rides in 250+ cities on 5 continents, replacing an estimated 150+ million car trips. Named a Time 100 Most Influential Company and Fast Company Brand That Matters, Lime continues to set the pace for shared micromobility globally.

We are looking for a stellar proposal writer to join our market expansion team to help maintain and expand our permits across North America, South America, and Asia Pacific. In this role, you will lead the writing, narrative development and key messaging for public sector regulatory audiences about our programs, technology, and initiatives. As a proposal writer senior lead, you should have experience with public procurement and tender processes, public sector experience, or transportation planning experience. You need to be a strategic thinker who understands the transportation, sustainability, and equity priorities of cities across our region, and have the ability to communicate how Lime can contribute to city success in well-crafted written documents.

What You’ll Do

• Write clear, compelling, and creative content for RFIs, RFPs, administrative permits, and other public procurement processes, often on tight deadlines

• Develop key themes, narrative, and key messaging to ensure that proposals are competitive and resonate with local audiences, in collaboration with our proposal manager, graphic designer, and content manager

• Analyze proposal document packages from cities, identifying key priorities, criteria, eligibility and scoring

• Gather insights from and build productive partnerships with our motivated, experienced team of local operations and policy teams as well as a wide range of other cross-functional partners, spread across several countries and time zones

• Build on our established best practices, toolkits, and content library in collaboration with the other proposal team members

• Travel to our most important markets on an as-needed basis to strategize and plan for upcoming projects with pre-tender workshops, consultants, and brainstorms with local teams

About You

• 5+ years of relevant experience, preferably with a focus on content writing and project management

• Experience with reading and analyzing regulations, bid documents, and/or city planning documents

• Excellent writing skills, with a love for the written word. You have a knack for resonating with a target audience, whether it’s executive leadership, elected officials, community organizations, or local government staff

• Bachelor’s degree required (focus on language, journalism, or literature, or other related fields like public administration, urban planning or transportation), with an advanced degree preferred

• Public or private sector experience in procurement is a plus

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If you want to make an impact, Lime is the place for you. Not sure if you meet all the qualifications? If this role excites you we encourage you to apply. Explore all opportunities on our career page.

Lime is an Equal Opportunity Employer, but that’s just the start. We believe different perspectives help us grow and achieve more. That’s why we’re dedicated to hiring and developing the most talented and globally diverse team – which includes individuals with different backgrounds, abilities, identities and experiences. Applicants who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process can email [email protected] for assistance. 

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