Director of Corporate Development – Strategic Partner Management

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SandboxAQ

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔒 Cybersecurity

💊 Pharmaceuticals

Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity • Pharmaceuticals

SandboxAQ is a company developing quantitative AI and quantum-inspired technologies to solve real-world problems across drug discovery, materials science, cybersecurity, and navigation. They build large quantitative models (LQMs) grounded in physics and chemistry to predict molecular properties, accelerate therapeutic design, and simulate complex chemical and catalytic processes, while also applying their expertise in AI and post-quantum cryptography to enhance digital security and navigation in GPS-denied environments.

📋 Description

• Develop and help execute SandboxAQ’s corporate development strategy, including identifying, prioritizing, and evaluating acquisition, investment, and strategic partnership opportunities aligned to company goals. • Lead end-to-end transaction and partnership processes, from opportunity sourcing and market mapping through diligence, business case development, negotiation, internal alignment, and execution. • Build the strategic and financial narratives that support executive decision-making, including market analysis, competitive intelligence, business model evaluation, partnership theses, and financial modeling. • Partner with the COO and senior leadership to assess where SandboxAQ should buy, build, partner, or invest in order to accelerate growth and sharpen market position. • Own and manage relationships with selected strategic partners, including major technology, ecosystem, channel, and commercial partners, and help structure partnerships that create measurable business impact. • Work cross-functionally with product, research and development, engineering, and business teams to translate technical capabilities into compelling external partnership and growth opportunities.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience in corporate development, investment banking, strategic finance, strategy consulting, business development, partnerships, or a related field, with a strong track record in complex strategic transactions or partnerships. • Demonstrated ability to negotiate and structure high-value, complex deals involving multiple internal and external stakeholders. • Strong commercial judgment and analytical rigor, including experience with market analysis, competitive analysis, business case development, and financial modeling. • Exceptional cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to drive alignment across executive, technical, product, legal, finance, and commercial teams. • Comfort operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous, high-growth environment, with a proactive, ownership-oriented mindset. • Curiosity about frontier technologies and the ability to quickly develop conviction in new markets, customers, partners, and business models.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions • Retirement savings with company matching • Paid parental leave • Inclusive family-building benefits • Flexible paid time off • Company-wide seasonal breaks • Support for flexible work arrangements that enable sustainable performance • Opportunities for continuous learning and growth through on-the-job development, cross-functional collaboration, and access to internal learning and development programs