Bilingual Pursuit Marketing Strategist

HKS, Inc; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

HKS, Inc. is seeking a Primary pursuit producer to develop high-quality, tailored pursuits that win work. You will lead pursuit planning, win strategy, messaging, quality, and execution in partnership with Business Development to differentiate our firm.

You will manage the pursuit process end-to-end, coordinating with COEs, project champions, and design teams, ensuring deadlines are met while maintaining brand standards and compelling content across qualifications packages and proposals.

Qualifications

• Professional degree in Marketing or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years of professional services pursuit marketing experience.
• Experience with A/E/C firm preferred.
• Experience in Photoshop and Illustrator preferred.
• Proficiency in InDesign.
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Knowledge of architecture/interior design industry preferred.
• Experience operating in a matrixed global structure.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates or leads win strategy and messaging alignment discussions with pursuit teams and stakeholders.
• Works with COEs to strengthen position by bringing market insight, client perspective, and competitive awareness into pursuit planning.
• Serves as a trusted advisor to project champions and business development, influencing how the firm presents value and differentiators to clients through pursuit work.
• Develops high-quality, tailored pursuit content ensuring clear, compelling differentiation aligned with client requirements, win-themes, and pursuit strategy.
• Drives pursuit storytelling and messaging, partnering with design team to elevate narrative clarity, visual impact, and overall persuasiveness of marketing materials.
• Owns and manages the pursuit process end-to-end, from go/no-go decisions to driving win strategy development, messaging alignment, schedules, deliverables, and risk identification, ensuring deadlines are met without compromising quality.
• Proactively identifies and escalates risks, weak positioning and quality concerns with pursuit leadership and collaborates on solutions and course corrections early within the process.
• Leads the creation and production of qualifications packages, proposal submissions, and interview collateral ensuring content and graphics align with firm brand standards, pursuit playbooks, and client focused messaging.
• Ensures accurate setup, tracking, and ongoing management of pursuits in CRM and Asana, maintaining real-time visibility into pursuit status, milestones, ownership, and risks to support informed decision-making, resource planning, and performance reporting.
• Maintains quality standards and best practices that result in consistent, compelling, and competitive pursuit deliverables across all efforts.
• Provides guidance and direction to junior-level staff, as appropriate, supporting development and reinforcing pursuit standards and best practices.
• Measures and evaluates pursuit quality and win contribution leveraging feedback and outcomes to continuously improve performance and effectiveness

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Project management

Interpersonal skills

Storytelling

Team collaboration

Attention to detail

Deadline-driven

Strategic thinking

Education

Marketing degree

Tools

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

MS Office

Job description

HKS, Inc. is seeking a Primary pursuit producer to develop high-quality, tailored pursuits that win work. You will lead pursuit planning, win strategy, messaging, quality, and execution in partnership with Business Development to differentiate our firm.

You will manage the pursuit process end-to-end, coordinating with COEs, project champions, and design teams, ensuring deadlines are met while maintaining brand standards and compelling content across qualifications packages and proposals.