[Hiring] Head of Visual Narrative, Proposals & Strategic Communications @The Malwin Company

Role Description

The Malwin Company is seeking a Head of Visual Narrative, Proposals & Strategic Communications to serve as the enterprise's visual storyteller, proposal-builder, and strategic communications partner. This role works directly with leadership and subject-matter experts to translate complex technologies, capabilities, strategies, and pursuits into clear, persuasive, and visually compelling narratives. The successful candidate will help shape and personally produce proposals, executive presentations, capability materials, partnership communications, technical visuals, storyboards, and other strategic communications from initial concept through final production. This is a highly hands-on role. We are looking for someone who can think strategically, write persuasively, design visually, and take ownership of delivering polished work.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead proposal story architecture, win themes, section planning, executive summaries, and integrated narrative development.
• Write, edit, design, and assemble proposal content and strategic communications.
• Develop technical illustrations, infographics, concept diagrams, storyboards, visual abstracts, and other narrative tools that make complex ideas easier to understand.
• Create executive presentations, capability briefs, partnership materials, strategic placemats, and pursuit-specific communications.
• Work directly with leaders and subject-matter experts across engineering, quality, operations, finance, and business development.
• Conduct structured interviews with technical and business stakeholders to extract key messages, supporting evidence, and differentiators.
• Translate technical and strategic information into clear narratives appropriate for customers, partners, and decision-makers.
• Help establish and maintain a consistent visual and narrative identity across proposals, presentations, campaigns, and external communications.
• Build reusable libraries of graphics, diagrams, templates, proposal modules, and story structures to improve speed and consistency.
• Direct outside creative resources when appropriate while remaining personally involved in writing, design, and final production.
• Take ownership of quality, coherence, and final delivery from an ambiguous starting point through a polished finished product.

Qualifications

• Exceptional writing, editing, and narrative-development skills.
• Strong visual communication capability across information design, presentation design, layout, storyboarding, illustration, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated ability to develop persuasive long-form and executive-level content.
• Portfolio demonstrating the ability to make technical, strategic, or complex institutional subjects clear and visually compelling.
• Ability to work directly with senior leaders, engineers, and technical subject-matter experts.
• Strong judgment in identifying the central idea, audience, supporting proof, and desired outcome within complex material.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of work from an incomplete or ambiguous starting point through final delivery.
• Fluency with modern design, presentation, and collaborative document-production tools.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a lean, fast-moving environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in aerospace, defense, advanced technology, engineering, government contracting, or another technically complex industry.
• Proposal-development experience involving competitive procurements, federal customers, prime contractors, OEMs, research programs, or strategic partnerships.
• Experience in information design, creative direction, narrative design, storyboarding, sequential art, or technical illustration.
• Experience working with technical diagrams, engineering concepts, data, and technical subject-matter experts.
• Experience creating repeatable proposal, brand, or visual-communication systems within a growing organization.

Benefits

• The opportunity to shape how The Malwin Company communicates its technologies, capabilities, and strategic pursuits.
• Direct collaboration with senior leadership and technical experts across the enterprise.
• A hands-on role with significant ownership from concept through final delivery.
• The opportunity to establish reusable visual and narrative standards across a growing aerospace and defense organization.
• A lean environment where strong ideas, judgment, and execution have visible impact.