Senior Corporate Development and Strategy Analyst (or Manager), Guild Education
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Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
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Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education and upskilling.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years total experience, including 2–3 years in investment banking or management consulting (M&A/strategy focus), plus experience in corporate development, corporate strategy, or BizOps—ideally in SaaS/fintech
- Financial rigor: Advanced Excel/Sheets; comfort with valuation (comps/DCF), synergy modeling, scenario/sensitivity analysis, and unit economics
- Strategy toolkit: Market sizing, competitive analysis, and prioritization frameworks that lead to clear recommendations—not just analysis
- Execution & influence: Proven ability to drive cross‑functional work, set operating cadences, and influence without authority at the Director/VP level
- Executive communication: Concise, decision‑oriented writing and presenting; ELT/Board‑quality materials
- Partnerships/M&A process fluency: Familiarity with screens, LOIs/term sheets, data rooms, and integration planning (light)
- Tools: Proficiency with presentation tools; BI/analytics familiarity (e.g., Looker/Tableau/Power BI) and basic SQL are a plus.
Desirable
- Experience in HR Tech/EdTech, workforce development, or employer benefits ecosystems
- Hands‑on partnership commercialization or post‑merger integration exposure
What the job involves
- Guild is hiring a Senior Corporate Development Analyst/Manager to help Guild evaluate, prioritize, and execute the right partnerships and M&A opportunities—while driving the strategy and planning cadence that turns choices into results
- Map the landscape: Build market maps and a living pipeline of targets (partners and potential acquisitions) with clear screen criteria (strategic fit, financial profile, capabilities)
- Form the thesis: Craft deal theses and business cases, including synergy logic, build‑buy‑partner tradeoffs, and integration hypotheses
- Model the economics: Develop valuation and scenario models (comps/DCF, accretion/dilution, unit economics) and quantify ROI and risks
- Run light diligence: Coordinate cross‑functional, light DD with Product, Finance, Legal, and GTM; manage data requests and summarize findings for executive decisions
- Stand up partnerships: Structure and size pilot partnerships, define success metrics, and support commercialization plans with functional owners
- Exec materials: Prepare clear, decision‑ready memos and ELT/Board materials throughout the deal/partnership lifecycle
- Shape choices: Support long‑range planning and annual portfolio choices—market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM), competitive intelligence, and prioritization frameworks
- Build business cases: Translate insights into investment‑grade recommendations with explicit resourcing and expected impact
- Drive cadence: Help run the quarterly strategy → plan → review rhythm (OKRs, dashboards), turning decisions into cross‑functional workplans and measurable outcomes
- Communicate crisply: Distill complex analysis into simple narratives that drive alignment and action with senior leaders
- Leverage generative‑AI and knowledge tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Glean, etc) to accelerate research, analysis, and synthesis—responsibly and securely
- Consistently demonstrate Guild’s core competencies and values
Application process
- Posting Date: December 8th, 2025. This role will stay open for a minimum of 3 days
Our take
The recruitment process can be the most costly element of a company's operation, with future-proof skillset requirements resulting in the hiring of staff for niche tasks. Many existing employees of a company could have the potential to fill talent gaps and prevent the need for a new hire, but they often lack the training for such roles. Helping to solve this problem, Guild Education helps employers partner with nonprofit universities to train staff across a variety of subject matters, including high school completion programs, vocational opportunities, and enrollment in higher education.
As professional development is a strong employer benefit, Guild Education also pitches itself as a perk for employees, aiming to increase retention and worker satisfaction. By solving two major problems - a skills shortage and worker retention, it has gained large companies such as Chipotle, Target, Hilton and PepsiCo as corporate clients.
Guild Education closed a Series F financing round in 2022 led by Wellington Management and with participation from Oprah Winfrey. The company is using this funding to develop its healthcare and financial services learning modules and increase its offering to workers by exploring new ways to lower the barriers to learning, for instance through childcare solutions and financial wellness tools.
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Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2022
$265m
SERIES F
Jun 2021
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $643.5m
Company benefits
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
Company HQ
Central Business District, Denver, CO
Leadership
Rachel Carlson
(CEO & Founder)Prior to co-founding Guild Education, was founder and CEO of Blueprint. Before that was a Director at American Honours and an Associate with The Parthenon Group.
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