Proposal Development Specialist - Enterprise Payments

Tyler Technologies, Inc.; Maine; Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Tyler Technologies, Inc. seeks a Proposal Writer & Specialist for a hybrid role in the United States. You will lead timely, compliant, and strategic proposals for Enterprise Payments, coordinating with sales, product, marketing, legal, and security to craft winning responses.

The role requires strong writing, editing, and project-management skills, with experience in end-to-end proposal development and content management. Hybrid work arrangement offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in English, journalism, communications, marketing, business, or related field, or comparable professional experience.
• Experience in proposal writing, proposal coordination, sales enablement, or a deadline-driven role; tech/payments/public sector procurement experience preferred.
• Strong writing, editing, and verbal communication, translating technical concepts into clear customer language.
• Ability to interpret solicitation requirements, organize compliant responses, manage multiple projects and priorities.
• Attention to detail, quality control, organization, time management, and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Payments focus: Build knowledge of solutions, buyers, competitors, and market trends to support responses.
• End-to-end coordination: Manage proposals from kickoff through submission, schedules, deadlines, tracking, reviews, approvals, and CRM data.
• Compliance and structure: Analyze requirements and ensure forms, attachments, and submissions are addressed.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Partner with Sales, product, marketing, legal, implementation, security, finance, and other SMEs.
• Risk and status: Communicate progress, dependencies, risks, and decisions to stakeholders; escalate when deadlines or compliance are at risk.
• Proposal strategy and writing: Develop clear, customer-focused boilerplate and narratives from approved content and SME input.
• Content and knowledge management: Create reusable content and knowledge repositories for efficiency.
• Editing and quality control: Review materials for accuracy, clarity, consistency, and messaging.
• Broader RFP support: Assist non-Enterprise Payments proposals as capacity allows.

Skills

Proposal writing

Editing

Cross-functional collaboration

Time management

Verbal/written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in English or related field

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

SharePoint

Qvidian

Job description

SalesYarmouth,MaineTroy,MichiganLubbock,TexasPlano,TexasUnited States
Salary: USD 75000.00 - 90000.00 Annually

The Proposal Writer & Specialist is responsible for the timely, compliant, and strategic development of high-quality proposals, with primary focus on Enterprise Payments opportunities. This hybrid role combines persuasive proposal writing with end-to-end proposal coordination, helping Sales advance new and expanded business opportunities. As bandwidth allows, the role also supports other RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, and related proposal requests across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Payments focus: Build working knowledge of Enterprise Payments solutions, buyers, competitors, implementation considerations, and market trends to support accurate and differentiated responses.
• End-to-end coordination: Manage assigned proposals from kickoff through final submission, including schedules, assignments, deadlines, document tracking, version control, reviews, approvals, production, submission, and tracking key data in CRM for reporting purposes.
• Compliance and structure: Analyze solicitation requirements, establish the response outline and compliance framework, and ensure all instructions, forms, attachments, and submission requirements are addressed.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Partner with Sales, product management, marketing, legal, implementation, security, finance, and other subject matter experts to gather inputs, resolve open issues, and maintain momentum.
• Risk and status communication: Communicate progress, dependencies, risks, and outstanding decisions to proposal stakeholders, escalating issues early when deadlines or compliance may be affected.
• Proposal strategy and writing: In collaboration with internal subject matter experts, develop clear, compelling, customer-focused boiler plate and proposal narratives by synthesizing approved content, subject matter expert input, product positioning, and opportunity-specific requirements.
• Content and knowledge management: Create and maintain reusable content, proposal archives, and knowledge repositories to improve consistency, retrieval, and efficiency.
• Editing and quality control: Review, edit, and proofread proposal materials for accuracy, clarity, consistency, professionalism, compliance, and alignment with strategic messaging and style standards.
• Broader RFP support: Support non-Enterprise Payments proposal work, as capacity and business priorities allow.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in English, journalism, communications, marketing, business, or a related field, or comparable professional experience.
• Experience in proposal writing, proposal coordination, sales enablement, or a related deadline-driven role; experience with technology, payments, or public sector procurement is preferred.
• Strong professional and persuasive writing, editing, and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate technical or operational concepts into clear customer-focused language.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret complex solicitation requirements, organize compliant responses, and manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Exceptional attention to detail, quality control, organization, time management, problem solving, and follow-up.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across functions while also working independently, making timely decisions, and maintaining accountability for deliverables.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint; experience with proposal automation, content management, or collaboration platforms such as Qvidian is preferred.
• Familiarity with responsible use of generative AI in proposal workflows, including human validation, source verification, confidentiality, and approval controls, preferred.