# Federal Operations Associate

**Company:** [Govsignals](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/govsignals)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Sales Enablement
**Salary:** $80k – $120k/yr
**Experience:** 1+ years
**Skills:** CRM, Project Management Tools, Google Sheets, Excel, Salesforce, Asana, HubSpot, Notion, Airtable, Tableau
**Posted:** 2026-04-02

> Supports federal business development by researching opportunities, preparing materials, supporting proposals, and managing operational cadence for a government contracting AI platform. Requires strong writing, quick learning, and 1-3 years experience.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
- Research federal agencies, procurement opportunities, and key decision-makers.
- Prepare account briefs and engagement materials that give our team an edge before every meeting.
- Support proposal development for government opportunities, including drafting capability narratives and coordinating inputs across the team.
- Plan and execute conference strategy: identifying the right events, coordinating outreach, and ensuring follow-through.
- Own the operational cadence: weekly syncs, pipeline reviews, and cross-functional check-ins.
- Produce weekly briefs that give leadership visibility into priorities, developments, and where attention is needed.
- Build the templates, workflows, dashboards, and processes that do not exist yet. Document everything. The goal is a repeatable system that scales.
- Support commercial sales efforts with research as needed.

## Qualifications
- 1-3 years of professional experience. The domain matters less than the person. Great candidates come from military service, consulting, research, business development, government, startups, and non-traditional paths.
- Strong writing skills. Non-negotiable. You will produce briefs, proposals, and research products daily.
- Genuine interest in national security, government technology, or public sector innovation.
- Comfort building from scratch. This function does not exist yet. You are creating it.

**Bonus:** Military service, government experience, startup experience, or familiarity with CRM and project management tools.

## Compensation & Benefits
**Base Salary:** $80,000-$120,000
**Equity:** Meaningful stake in a well-funded, fast-growing startup
**Benefits:** 100% employer-paid medical, vision, and dental
**Unlimited PTO**
**Ground-floor opportunity alongside the founding team**

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