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
Job no longer available
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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 skillsets 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.
The platform has secured some serious funding too. And 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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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
- Equity stake in the company providing ownership and a path to future earnings (when we succeed, we all benefit)
- free one-on-one coaching with a certified financial planner, a platform with budgeting tools, investment and equity management center and many more financial resources through Origin (we believe financial literacy not only supports you personally, but also has a lasting impact in creating positive generational wealth practices)
- Employee Assistance Fund for unforeseen crises, disasters, and/or personal hardships and you need a little extra financial support (funded by the company and fellow Guilders to create a community of support)
- legal support and resources to navigate complicated situations like estate planning name changes, immigration, and more
- 401(k) plan with a range of diverse investment options and personalized retirement advice
- 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
- Multiple paths to meet educational and professional goals
- Fertility benefits built into all of our medical plans
- A $10,000 family planning fund to take care of costs that aren’t covered by the medical plans like adoption, surrogacy, and egg freezing expenses
- 12-20 weeks of paid leave and a ramp-up program for Guilders to ease back into work after an extended time away
- An additional 3 weeks of paid leave if you are going through the adoption, surrogacy, or foster process to use prior to your child's arrival/placement to prepare and attend necessary meeting
- Inclusive guidance and support as you go through your family planning journey through Cleo
- Our on-site childcare center, The Beehive, offering care for children 3 months-6 years of age for employees and their friends and family members located in Colorado
- Personalized 1:1 support for anyone on the parenthood journey with access to a network of clinicians, experts, and specialists through Cleo
- 80 hours of low cost ($2/hr) emergency backup care for times employees unexpectedly find themselves without primary care for the ones they are responsible for
- Dedicated support in finding background-checked care providers to assist with child care, elder care, and chronic care needs through Helpr
- The ability to bring an actively nursing child and companion on work related trips
- Inclusive, affordable medical and behavioral healthcare when you need it
- Open PTO is available so Guilders can rest, recharge, and bring their best selves to work
- 10 Holidays including a collective week off over the 4th of July plus 5 floating holidays for cultural and religious events you celebrate
- Our leave policies are there to support employees and offer 12 weeks of fully paid medical, non-birthing parent, and caregiving leave as of day one of employment while birthing parents receive 18-20 weeks of fully paid leave
- Once Guilders reach 4.5 years of service, they are eligible for a 5-week fully paid sabbatical leave
- Up to 10 days of bereavement leave
- Up to 10 days of jury duty
- 8 sick days
Company HQ
Central Business District, Denver, CO
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