Director, Corporate Development

🕒 July 15

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Director

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ConsumerAffairs

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2007

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🏪 Marketplace

Consulting • Marketing • Marketplace

ConsumerAffairs is a comprehensive digital platform providing consumers with valuable information on a wide range of products and services. The company offers detailed reviews and guides, helping individuals make informed purchasing decisions across various sectors, such as home, automotive, finance, and senior care. With over 3 million reviews and insights from experts, ConsumerAffairs serves as a trusted resource for buyers seeking to compare products and services. The platform also facilitates connections between consumers and companies, driving transactions and informed decision-making.

📋 Description

• Build systems to continuously identify acquisition, partnership, and investment opportunities, utilizing AI tools. • Monitor emerging startups, competitors, funding activity, hiring trends, and market signals. • Build relationships with founders, investment firms, investment bankers, and brokers. • Evaluate acquisition opportunities through financial, operational, technological, and strategic lenses. • Develop investment theses supported by internal operations and market intelligence. • Build financial models, valuation analyses, and scenario planning. • Present recommendations to executive leadership. • Lead comprehensive commercial, financial, legal, product, technology, and operational diligence. • Use AI agents and automation to synthesize large volumes of information into actionable insights. • Identify customer, revenue, technical, cybersecurity, and organizational risks. • Coordinate cross-functional diligence across Product, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Security, HR, and Operations. • Manage transactions from initial outreach through closing. • Coordinate internal and external stakeholders including legal, accounting, tax, and consulting partners. • Support negotiations, LOIs, purchase agreements, and transaction structures. • Drive project management across multiple stakeholders and workstreams. • Partner with business leaders to develop post-acquisition integration plans. • Identify operational synergies and AI automation opportunities. • Measure acquisition performance against strategic objectives. • Ensure successful Day One execution and long-term value realization.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Corporate Development, Investment Banking, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Corporate Strategy, or Management Consulting. Search Fund experience will be considered. • Demonstrated experience leading mergers, acquisitions, strategic investments, or complex strategic initiatives. • Strong financial modeling, valuation, and analytical capabilities. • Experience leading cross-functional due diligence efforts. • Excellent executive communication and presentation skills. • Ability to influence leaders across multiple disciplines. • Proven experience building AI-assisted research, analysis, or workflow automations. • Expert user of modern AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and agentic workflows. • Experience in SaaS, marketplaces, fintech, consumer technology, or consumer services companies (preferred). • MBA, CFA, CPA, or equivalent advanced business education (preferred). • Experience integrating acquired companies (preferred). • Strong network within venture capital, private equity, investment banking, or founder ecosystems (preferred).

🏖️ Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) • Retirement Plan (401k) • Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D) • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays) • Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity) • Short Term & Long Term Disability • Training & Development