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GovDash

AI-driven platform automating government contract proposals

Sales Development Representative

Full-Time
$65k - $75k/yr+ Equity
Junior, Mid
Arlington County, Arlington, VA, USA
Hybrid
Sales & Account ManagementSales Development Representative

About the job

Requirements
  • Have 1 to 3 years of experience in an SDR or BDR role.
  • Be located in or around the Washington, DC metro area.
Responsibilities
  • Serve as the first touchpoint for prospective customers, driving awareness and generating interest in GovDash.
  • Qualify inbound leads and execute outbound prospecting campaigns across phone, LinkedIn, Nooks, email, and other channels.
  • Schedule qualified discovery meetings for Account Executives.
  • Attend conferences and industry events to generate leads and pipeline.
  • Collaborate with Growth and the broader GTM team to refine messaging, campaigns, and outreach strategies.
  • Maintain clean CRM data and contribute insights that improve pipeline generation.
  • Build relationships with prospective customers and determine whether GovDash should be part of their evaluation process.
Desired Qualifications
  • Government contracting or federal sales experience is a plus.
  • Demonstrated success with cold calling and outbound prospecting to generate new customer opportunities.
  • Familiarity with CRM platforms such as Salesforce, HubSpot, or similar tools.
  • A proven track record of consistently meeting or exceeding ambitious, achievable sales targets.

About the company

GovDash is an AI-driven platform that helps government contractors manage proposals and business development. It lets users upload solicitation documents and analyzes them to extract requirements, create compliant outlines, and draft full proposals using past performance data and internal documents. It differentiates itself by combining contract identification with automated drafting and delivering qualified opportunities directly to users’ inboxes, focusing on GovCon compliance. Its goal is to save time, reduce burnout, and improve win rates by streamlining bid processes.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$40.1M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2021

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What believers are saying

  • GovDash closed a $30M Series B on January 15, 2026, funding expansion.
  • GovDash says revenue grew 16x in 2025 and customers won over $5B.
  • Recent launches like Slack, Teams, and M365 integrations deepen daily workflow lock-in.

What critics are saying

  • Unanet GrowthStudio and ProposalAI now attack GovDash's core capture workflow in 2026.
  • GovDash's case studies come almost entirely from self-reported customer testimonials, not third-party audits.
  • If federal authorization stalls beyond 2026, FedRAMP-ready competitors will win enterprise procurements.

What makes GovDash unique

  • GovDash owns FedRAMP Ready and Moderate Equivalency, strengthening CUI handling for defense buyers.
  • GovDash unifies discovery, capture, proposals, contracts, and delivery in one system.
  • GovDash reports direct adoption across 300+ teams and top 100 U.S. contractors.

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Benefits

  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Company Equity

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

4%

1 year growth

5%

2 year growth

5%
FinSMEs
Jan 15th, 2026
GovDash Raises $30M in Series B Funding

GovDash raises $30M in Series B funding. GovDash, a NYC-based provider of an AI-driven enterprise resource planning platform for government contracting, raised $30M in Series B funding. The round was led by Mucker Capital and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), with participation from Northzone and Y Combinator. The company intends to use the funds to expand its engineering teams across all product areas, invest in customer success, and grow its office presence in New York and Arlington, Virginia. Led by CEO and founder Sean Doherty, GovDash advances an AI-native platform that automates the lifecycle of government work, from identifying bid opportunities and managing pipelines to generating compliant proposals and overseeing post-award contract modifications. In 2025, the company achieved a 16x revenue increase, reached FedRAMP Moderate Equivalency, and helped its customers - including Scale AI, SPATHE Systems, Rose Consulting, Aviation Training Consulting, Threat Tec, PowerTrain, Schatz Group, Brite Group, iWorks, JSL, BrennSys, and Sumaria Systems - win more than $5B in government contracts. GovDash plans to further integrate its workflows to enable customers to operate their government businesses with minimal administrative overhead.

Axios
Jan 15th, 2026
GovDash raises $30M to streamline government contract bidding and management

GovDash, a platform helping companies find, bid on and manage government contracts, has raised $30 million in Series B funding, CEO Sean Doherty announced. The startup addresses inefficiencies in government contracting, where companies typically use fragmented tools to handle critical bidding and contract work, making it difficult to maintain speed and compliance.

GovDash
Jan 14th, 2026
GovDash Raises $30M Series B to Help Companies Win and Manage Government Contracts with AI

GovDash is the AI platform for winning government contracts: streamlining capture, proposals, contract management and more, so teams can win more work and deliver stronger mission outcomes.

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GovDash
Apr 17th, 2024
GovDash raises $10M to Redefine GovCon Business Development - GovDash

GovDash is an autonomous AI platform that assists government contractors with capture, proposal development, contract management & more—in one place.