The next part of your journey is right around the corner — with The Standard.

A genuine desire to make a difference in the lives of others is the foundation for everything we do. With a customer-first mindset and an intentional focus on building strong teams, we’ve been able to uphold our legacy of financial stability while investing in new, innovative technologies that support the needs of our customers. Our high-performance culture focused on operational excellence thrives thanks to remarkable people united by compassion and a customer-first commitment. Are you ready to make a difference?

Job Summary

The RFP & Business Communications Writer develops clear, compelling, and brand-aligned content that supports business growth and organizational goals. This role leads the development of Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and Requests for Information (RFIs), partnering with subject matter experts across the organization to create tailored responses that highlight the company’s value and capabilities. The position also supports a variety of internal and external communications, including client communications, leadership updates, presentations, newsletters, and other business materials. Success in this role requires strong writing and editing skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining high-quality, accurate content.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and manage responses to RFPs, RFIs, and other proposal requests.
• Partner with subject matter experts to gather information and create persuasive, customer-focused content.
• Maintain proposal content libraries, templates, Q&A databases, and reusable content resources.
• Create and support internal and external business communications and presentation materials.
• Conduct quality assurance reviews to ensure accuracy, consistency, compliance, and adherence to brand standards.

Skills and Background You'll Need

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Marketing, English, Business, or a related field

Experience

• 3+ years of experience in proposal writing, RFP development, marketing communications, technical writing, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience developing clear, persuasive, and customer-focused written content.
• Strong writing, editing, proofreading, and storytelling skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Experience with proposal management or content management platforms such as Qvidian, RocketDocs, or SharePoint preferred.

Key Behaviors of a Successful Candidate

• Driving Success: Independently drives work forward and takes ownership for achieving objectives, delivering high-quality results, and meeting deadlines.
• Winning Together: Builds strong partnerships across teams, understands cross-functional dependencies, and collaborates effectively to achieve shared goals.
• Improvement Mindset: Challenges the status quo, identifies opportunities for process improvements, and helps enhance team performance and efficiency.
  

Why Join The Standard?

We have built an enduring legacy of stability, financial strength and exceptional customer service through the contributions of the service-oriented people who choose to work at The Standard. To ensure we can attract and retain the best talent, when you join The Standard you can expect:

• A rich benefits package including medical, dental, vision and a 401(k) plan with matching company contributions

• An annual incentive bonus plan

• Generous paid time off including 11 holidays, 2 wellness days, and 8 volunteer hours annually — PTO increases with tenure

• A supportive, responsive management approach and opportunities for career growth and advancement 

• Paid parental leave and adoption/surrogacy assistance

• An employee giving program that double matches your donations to eligible nonprofits and schools

In addition to the competitive salary range below, our employee-focused benefits support work-life balance. Learn more about working at The Standard.

• Eligibility to participate in an incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program and plan. Any award depends on a variety of factors including individual and organizational performance.

• Performance guarantees may be applied to roles with highly incentivized compensation plans for a specified period of time to support a new hire’s transition into the sales incentive plan.

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Compensation is made up of a base salary, incentives, and/or other bonuses when applicable. This is a minimum range that can be increased based on performance and sales activity.

Salary Range:

Standard Insurance Company, The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York, Standard Retirement Services, Inc., StanCorp Mortgage Investors, LLC, StanCorp Investment Advisers, Inc., and American Heritage Life Insurance Company and American Heritage Service Company, marketed as The Standard, are Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability or veteran status or any other condition protected by federal, state or local law. Except where precluded by state or federal law, The Standard will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. The Standard offers a drug- and alcohol-free work environment where possession, manufacture, transfer, offer, use of or being impaired by an illegal substance while on The Standard's property, or in other cases which the company believes might affect operations, safety or reputation of the company is prohibited. The Standard requires a criminal background investigation and employment, education and licensing verification as a condition of employment. After any conditional offer of employment is made, the background check will include an individualized assessment based on the applicant’s specific record and the duties and requirements of the specific job. Applicants will be provided an opportunity to explain and correct background information. All employees of The Standard must be bondable.