Proposal & Marketing Specialist
The Opportunity:
Tetra Tech is adding a Proposal & Marketing Specialist to our Marketing team. This position is remote and/or hybrid-friendly and can be performed from a wide range of locations across the U.S. within the Eastern and Central time zones.
Why Tetra Tech:
At Tetra Tech, we are Leading with Science to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Our industry-leading experts in engineering and consulting are committed to driving positive change in communities around the world. For over 50 years, we have been at the forefront of innovation and sustainability. Today we stand as a market leader, offering cutting-edge solutions in water, environment, energy, and international development. Our work has improved more than 625 million lives around the world.
Your Impact:
Join Tetra Tech to make a real difference. Our work leverages cutting-edge technologies, advanced analytics, and the expertise of world-class scientists and engineers to create meaningful change around the world. Discover your full potential – join us to advance your career while leaving a lasting legacy.
Position Summary:
Tetra Tech is seeking an experienced Marketing & Proposal Specialist to support our architecture, engineering, commissioning, and consulting businesses, including a growing portfolio of data center and mission critical opportunities. This hands-on leadership position will lead complex proposals and pursuits, develop high-quality marketing materials, and help advance the practical use of AI, technology, and modern marketing practices across the organization. The ideal candidate is an experienced A/E marketer who understands how architecture and engineering firms position and win work, has experience working within an architecture or A/E marketing environment or developing sophisticated marketing materials for architects and design professionals, and can translate complex technical information into compelling written and visual communications. The successful candidate will combine strong proposal and project-management skills with a forward-looking approach to AI, automation, knowledge management, and continuous improvement.
Essential Job Functions:
The following duties are considered essential to the role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions:
- Lead commercial, manufacturing, and mission critical/data center proposals, qualifications packages, presentations, and other competitive pursuits from strategy and kickoff through final submission.
- Develop pursuit strategies, win themes, differentiators, storyboards, and client-focused messaging in collaboration with Business Development, technical professionals, and operations leadership.
- Help drive and support the practical application and adoption of generative AI and emerging marketing technologies, identifying opportunities to improve proposal development, research, content creation, editing, compliance, quality assurance, knowledge retrieval, and other marketing workflows.
- Manage multiple concurrent pursuits, schedules, assignments, reviews, and deadlines while maintaining a high standard of quality.
- Write, edit, and develop compelling proposal content, executive summaries, project descriptions, resumes, presentations, and other marketing materials.
- Translate complex architectural, engineering, commissioning, and technical information into clear, persuasive, client-focused communications.
- Identify opportunities to communicate technical concepts through graphics, diagrams, infographics, presentations, and other forms of visual storytelling.
- Develop high-quality marketing materials appropriate for architecture firms, data center clients, owners, developers, commercial clients, and other sophisticated A/E audiences.
- Help improve how project experience, resumes, past performance, proposal content, and other institutional knowledge are captured, organized, retrieved, and reused.
- Collaborate with Federal and regional marketing leadership to share resources, knowledge, and best practices across the broader marketing organization.
Required Qualifications:
Candidates must possess the following qualifications to be considered for the position:
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, English, Journalism, Design, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- 7+ years of marketing, proposal, pursuit, or related professional-services experience within the architecture, engineering, construction (A/E/C), or consulting industry.
- Experience working within an architecture or A/E marketing environment or developing high-quality marketing and proposal materials for architects, design professionals, and other sophisticated A/E audiences.
- Practical experience using generative and agentic AI or other emerging technologies in marketing, proposal development, research, content development, editing, quality assurance, or related workflows.
- Demonstrated experience independently leading complex proposals, qualifications packages, presentations, and other competitive pursuits.
- Exceptional writing, editing, organization, and project-management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent pursuits and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work effectively with architects, engineers, commissioning professionals, technical specialists, Business Development staff, and senior leadership.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical information into clear, compelling, client-focused communications.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Adobe InDesign.
- Must be a U.S. citizen
Preferred Qualifications:
- 10+ years of A/E marketing, proposal, pursuit, communications, or related professional-services marketing experience.
- CPSM certification or active involvement with SMPS or similar A/E industry organizations.
- Experience supporting mission critical facilities, data centers, commercial buildings, commissioning, building systems, energy, sustainability, healthcare, higher education, or other technically complex facilities.
- Demonstrated experience applying generative AI beyond basic content generation, including workflow automation, knowledge retrieval, compliance review, quality assurance, content reuse, data analysis, or process improvement.
- Experience developing or improving project databases, resume systems, content libraries, CRM systems, knowledge-management platforms, or other marketing technology solutions, including systems utilizing AI.
Work Environment / Environmental Factors:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those encountered while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made.
- Normal office settings or remote work environments.
Physical Requirements:
- Manual dexterity to use a computer mouse, keyboard, and peripheral equipment.
- The ability to sit at a workstation for prolonged periods of time.
- Ability to communicate effectively verbally and via electronic means.
Additional Information:
- This position is available for remote work within the United States. Candidates near select Tetra Tech offices may be permitted/requested to work a hybrid schedule.
- This position is scheduled for full-time work (40 hours/week) with a typical schedule of 8:00am to 5:00pm Monday to Friday. Additional hours may be required based on project needs.
- The pay range for this position is between $,100000-$125,000 annually. However, the pay offered may vary depending on primary work location, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and internal parity.
Life at Tetra Tech:
The perks of working at Tetra Tech include:
- Comprehensive and market-competitive benefits
- Merit-based financial rewards
- Flexibility and company-wide commitment to work/life balance
- Collaborative team atmosphere that values the contributions of all employees
- Learning and development opportunities for ongoing professional growth.
About Tetra Tech:
Tetra Tech is the leader in water, environment, and sustainable infrastructure, providing high-end consulting and engineering services for projects worldwide. With 25,000 employees working together, Tetra Tech provides clear solutions to complex problems by Leading with Science® to address the entire water cycle, protect and restore the environment, design sustainable and resilient infrastructure, and support the clean energy transition.
Tetra Tech is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law. Tetra Tech is a VEVRAA federal contractor and we request priority referral of veterans.
We invite applications from all interested parties.
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