Director of Corporate Development, ConsumerAffairs

• The ideal candidate combines strong business judgment, financial acumen, and project management skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive cross-functional execution
• 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
• Strong understanding of business operations, strategy, and organizational dynamics
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects and navigate complex challenges
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• High level of discretion and the ability to handle confidential information
• Stands up for decisions, takes responsibility for results, and shares both good and bad outcomes transparently
• Demonstrates a relentless focus on results with a commitment to deliver
• Takes decisive action, and confidently changes course if unsuccessful

Desirable

• We are looking for a Director of Corporate Development who can help deploy our meaningful cash flow into high ROI opportunities
• Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the Director of Corporate Development is responsible for leading ConsumerAffairs' corporate development function
• This role identifies, evaluates, diligences, negotiates, and supports the execution and integration of acquisitions, strategic investments, and other growth opportunities that align with the company's long-term strategy
• ConsumerAffairs is an AI-forward company and this individual is expected to leverage AI throughout the corporate development lifecycle
• AI should be foundational to how work is performed—from sourcing acquisition targets and analyzing markets to accelerating due diligence, synthesizing complex information, and improving investment decision-making
• The Director will continuously evaluate and implement emerging AI tools and workflows to build a scalable, data-driven corporate development function
• This role partners closely with the COO and collaborates across Legal, Product, Engineering, and Operations to assess strategic opportunities, manage transactions, and support successful post-acquisition integration
• Opportunity Sourcing
• 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
• Strategic Evaluation
• 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
• Due Diligence
• 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
• Transaction Execution
• 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
• Integration & Value Creation
• 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