Director of Corporate Development (remote work)

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Position Overview:

The Director of Corporate Development reports to the CFO and owns the company's inorganic growth agenda: the acquisition pipeline from origination through evaluation and post-close integration coordination, and the routes that reach the same ends without a purchase, including strategic alliances, joint ventures, and major commercial partnerships. The role also partners with the CFO on long-term strategy and on debt and equity financing. The role's center of gravity remains sourcing and screening: building a disciplined flow of qualified targets and ensuring that every opportunity reaching the leadership team arrives with its financial consequences fully understood.

Diligence in this role extends beyond the financial statements: evaluating the leadership, culture, and post-close alignment of a target's principals is a core responsibility, not an afterthought. The role is also the organization's guardrail against deal momentum: every opportunity is scored against a consistent methodology, and recommendations follow the scores, not the level of internal enthusiasm. The role also owns transaction-related financial planning, including acquisition and integration budgets, working alongside the corporate FP&A process rather than running it. This is a hands-on position: you will build the pipeline, frameworks, and models yourself.

Targets are typically tuck-in software and hosting-adjacent businesses in the USD $1 million to $5 million enterprise value range, funded from operating cash flow. We expect 1 to 2 closed transactions per year at steady state, with a pipeline of roughly 2 qualified opportunities under active review at any time. Partnership, alliance, and joint venture opportunities run through the same screening and scoring discipline as acquisitions, so that build, buy, and partner are compared on one basis.

Work is fully remote, with flexible hours, so you can plan your day and work from anywhere in the world.
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Responsibilities:

Origination

- Build and maintain a pipeline of acquisition targets aligned to the company's strategic priorities, through market mapping, competitive landscape monitoring, and thesis-driven target identification.

- Cultivate and manage relationships with investment bankers, brokers, and industry advisors so that the company sees relevant opportunities early.

- Conduct direct outreach and early-stage relationship development with founders and owners of prospective targets.

- Maintain disciplined pipeline records, including passed opportunities and the rationale for each, so the pipeline improves with every decision.

Screening and Evaluation

- Design, maintain, and apply a standardized screening and scoring methodology, approved by the leadership team, that rates every opportunity on consistent criteria: strategic fit, financial thresholds and return, technology and product considerations, integration complexity, and counterparty risk. No opportunity advances to leadership consideration without a score, and the score travels with the deal.

- Ensure accept and reject recommendations follow the scoring methodology and are supported by stated evidence. Where the organization elects to proceed against the score, document the rationale and the specific assumptions that must hold, so the decision is made with open eyes and the record reflects it.

- Prepare concise initial evaluations of screened targets: what it costs, what it returns, what has to be true for the thesis to work, and