Job Description
The Boring Company was founded to solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic by creating an underground network of tunnels. Today, we are creating the technology to increase tunneling speed and decrease costs by a factor of 10 or more with the ultimate goal of making Hyperloop adoption viable and enabling rapid transit across densely populated regions.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain relationships with clients. Maintain a high-quality customer database.
- Identify active requests for proposals in the United States for tunneling projects (water, sewer, and transport) and non-tunneling projects that could become tunneling projects.
- Create new revenue-generating tunnel projects for The Boring Company by persuading key stakeholders that a TBC tunnel meets their needs.
- Help write, review, and submit proposals to local, state, and federal entities.
- Lead company business development efforts.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree.
- 5+ years of relevant experience securing bids in the tunneling industry.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 3+ year(s) of experience engaging and negotiating with government entities.
- 3+ year(s) of marketing experience.
- 3+ year(s) managing a team.
- Strategic thinker with innate ability to identify bottlenecks and develop solutions.
- Strong persuasion and negotiation abilities.
- Ability to analyze others’ reactions and understand why they react as they do.
- Effective communicator with exemplary presentation skills.
- Natural ability to network and forge relationships.
- Ability to interpret market, customer, and competitor information.
Additional Requirements
- Position may require long hours and weekend work.
- Travel 25-35% of the time.
Culture
We're a team of dedicated, smart, and scrappy people. Our employees are passionate about our mission and determined to innovate at every opportunity.
Benefits
We offer employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) plan, paid holidays, paid vacation, and a competitive amount of equity for all permanent employees.
The Boring Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with The Boring Company is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
