What We’re Looking For:
The VP of Corporate Development and Strategy will support the CFO and the Executive Team and work cross-functionally across product, business development, sales, marketing, and customer success teams to lead all Corporate Development activities across the organization.
What You Will Do:
- Independently lead deal-making across all corporate finance and corporate development activities.
- Support the development of our M&A strategy, priorities and pipeline.
- Research the market landscape to identify acquisition, joint venture, partnership, and strategic investment opportunities.
- Source, evaluate, close, and integrate acquisition and investment opportunities in collaboration with key stakeholders.
- Build out the corporate development function, including hiring, mentoring and developing employees.
- Prepare memos and presentations to synthesize key findings and recommendations.
Your Skills:
- BS/BA degree required – candidates with an MBA preferred.
- 15+ years of experience in the internet, software and/or consumer tech industry in a corporate development / strategy leadership role. Additional experience in management consulting and/or investment banking is a plus.
- Ability to quickly understand complex issues and develop/apply simplifying frameworks to facilitate broader organizational understanding, decision-making and action.
- Proficient at leveraging analytics, data, financial models and insights to drive decision-making.
- Outcome oriented with very strong ability to personally create high quality, customer-facing presentations.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Excellent project management skills; able to effectively manage multiple ongoing projects to meet deadlines.
- Experience in the video gaming industry preferred but not required.