Senior Principal Orals Slide Manager

Job ID: 2615124 **Location:** Reston, VA, US **Date Posted:** 2026\-07\-30 **Category:** Business Development **Subcategory:** Proposal **Schedule:** Full\-Time **Shift:** Day Job **Travel:** Yes \- 10% of the time **Minimum Clearance Required:** None **Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:** None **Potential for Remote Work:** ORA\_HYBRID **Description** SAIC is seeking a qualified, experienced Orals Slide Manager (Book Boss) with the expertise and demonstrated performance to manage and develop high\-quality content for oral presentations, video proposals, and technical demonstrations for our Proposal Development Center. **This is a hybrid opportunity and candidates must be in the Reston VA or surrounding area.** The Orals Slide Manager helps define the flow, structure, content layout, and messaging of the orals presentation, confirming compliance with solicitation requirements. The Orals Slide Manager works closely with the Orals Coach, who trains the team on effective presentation skills, including delivering messaging. **Specific responsibilities/requirements include:** * Establish a schedule, working with the proposal manager, for orals development * Develop the presentation in collaboration with the proposal team * Apply industry best practices with attention to compliance * Provide a structured methodology and process for both the creative and management aspects of complex responses for Federal Government proposals * Lead and assist with slide development to include outlining and storyboarding, integrating capture intelligence, integrating win themes and strategies, graphic look/style development, and technical and substantive reviews * Help the speakers/writers develop draft slide content and layout * Assist in developing strategic messaging, impactful graphics, and outlines * Advise on conceptual graphics used to illustrate the presentation * Help team create the presentation iteratively and conduct regular wall walks to help progress slides * Lead and collaborate with the proposal manager to ensure oral presentation artifacts are prepared and available for review cycles * Facilitate Orals Color Reviews * Help draft talk tracks: Help presenters organize what to say and enable them to practice delivering key points that need to be made on each slide * Develop/gather questions for mock Q\&A sessions with customer simulations to evaluate the team’s ability to meet customer expectations * Willing to travel; willing to work surge hours **Qualifications** * Bachelor's Degree and 18 years of related experience. Masters and 16 years. 4\+ additional years of directly related experience can be used in lieu of the degree. * 10\+ years of demonstrated experience managing, writing, and developing orals on winning competitive Federal Government proposals in a defined proposal role * **Candidates must be a US Citizen** * Experienced in various communications vehicles such as Zoom, Google Meet, MS Teams * Experienced with prep