Senior Manager, Corporate Development

Overview

This role is part of the corporate development team and supports senior leadership on strategic transactions. You will help drive full lifecycle deal work—sourcing and strategy, valuation and analysis, diligence and execution, and integration and separation.

This is an individual contributor position reporting to the Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Development. The team uses AI tools extensively, and you are expected to leverage them to accelerate research, diligence, modeling, and drafting.

Responsibilities

Sourcing and strategy

• Maintain and prioritize the deal pipeline
• Build target landscapes, market maps, and investment theses for where the organization should buy, build, or partner, including AI-native businesses and adjacent categories
• Serve as a consistent point of contact for bankers, investors, and advisors, managing inbound opportunities and supporting outbound outreach to source new opportunities

Valuation and analysis

• Build and own operating models, valuation, and returns analysis using discounted cash flow, comparable company, precedent transaction, and accretion and dilution methods
• Pressure-test target projections, synergies, and deal structure
• Provide clear, defensible recommendations on price and terms for presentation to senior leadership and ownership

Diligence and execution

• Run cross-functional due diligence across finance, legal, tax, product, engineering, and people teams
• Manage diligence request lists and data rooms
• Draft transaction materials, including process letters, letters of intent, term sheets, and management presentations
• Partner with outside counsel through definitive agreements and issues lists

Integration and separation

• Participate in integration planning for acquisitions and separation planning for divestitures and carve-outs, including transition services agreements (TSA), operating model design, and the stand-up or wind-down of affected functions
• Coordinate deal sponsors, functional leads, and counterparties from signing through close and into post-close execution
• Track synergy and separation milestones to completion

Executive materials and process

• Prepare investment memos, executive committee materials, and board-ready decks
• Distill complex analysis into concise narratives for senior leadership and ownership stakeholders
• Use AI tools to accelerate research, diligence, modeling, and drafting
• Build templates, trackers, and lightweight workflows to compound team knowledge

Requirements

• 5+ years in corporate development, investment banking, private equity, or growth equity
• Proven ownership of financial models and valuation across multiple completed transactions, with command of the M&A process from sourcing through close
• Board-ready written communication produced independently, with composure across multiple concurrent workstreams and senior stakeholders
• Fluency with modern AI tools, used in practice to synthesize diligence, draft first-pass memos and analyses, build internal trackers or lightweight workflows, and help evaluate AI-native targets
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, business, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience in media, advertising technology, consumer internet, or subscription and software as a service (SaaS) businesses
• Experience across buy-side and sell-side transactions, including divestitures and carve-outs
• Familiarity with private-equity-backed or sponsor-owned operating environments and their reporting expectations
• Advanced degree or relevant credential such as an MBA or CFA
• Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning and ongoing development of AI knowledge, skills, and practical application

Compensation & Benefits

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Location

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