Corporate Development Manager

Clio - Cloud-Based Legal Technology; Old Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 97,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Corporate Development Manager to join its innovative team. This role is pivotal in sourcing and executing acquisitions that enhance the company's mission to transform the legal experience. You will collaborate with senior executives, analyze market opportunities, and lead negotiations. This position offers a unique chance to impact the legal tech landscape while working in a dynamic environment that values diversity and inclusion. If you're driven by strategy, analysis, and the desire to make a difference, this opportunity is for you!

Benefits

Top-tier health benefits

Dental and vision insurance

Flexible time off policy

$2000 annual counseling benefit

RRSP matching and RESP contribution

Clioversary recognition program

Qualifications

• 4+ years in venture capital, private equity, or corporate development.
• Strong analytical and communication skills with leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Identify acquisition opportunities to accelerate Clio's mission.
• Conduct analysis and support deal negotiation and due diligence.

Skills

Strategic Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Leadership Skills

Problem-Solving Skills

Project Management Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree (preferred)

Tools

Financial Modeling Tools

Job description

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Corporate Development Manager

Apply locations: Toronto, Burnaby, Remote - Canada

Time type: Full time

Posted on: Posted 23 Days Ago

Job requisition id: BF-REQ-2876

Clio is more than just a tech company–we are a global leader that is transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice.

Summary:

We are currently seeking a Corporate Development Manager to join our Corporate Development Team in Canada.

What your team does:

Clio’s Corporate Development team works with the company’s leadership and executive teams to bring world-class companies, technology, and talent into the company through acquisitions. The team is responsible for sourcing, negotiating, structuring, and executing impactful acquisitions that accelerate Clio’s mission to transform the legal experience for all. This individual will be an integral member of the team and support all stages of the evaluation and acquisition process. The role reports to the VP, Corporate Development.

A day in the life might look like:

• Work closely with senior executives and product leads to develop strategies and identify acquisition opportunities that accelerate Clio’s mission.
• Building context for M&A transactions through deep understanding of Clio’s product roadmap.
• Meeting with startups, evaluating new products & technologies, and mapping ecosystems.
• Play a key role in building and maintaining the overall corp dev deal pipeline, including outreach to and sourcing of new opportunities.
• Conduct rigorous analysis including valuation and business case modeling to provide detailed guidance and insight into potential acquisitions, investments, deal structures and other strategic opportunities.
• Support deal negotiation, due diligence and integration efforts for acquisitions, including cross-functional coordination of product, engineering, legal, and other diligence and integration supporting teams to evaluate targets.

You may be a fit for this role if you:

• 4+ years of relevant work experience, including venture capital, private equity, strategy consulting, investment banking or corporate development experience.
• Exceptional strategic, analytical, communication, leadership and problem-solving skills, with ability to operate at all organization levels.
• An ability to drive projects cross-functionally, synthesize feedback, develop consensus and create structure in an unstructured environment.
• Experience building and reviewing financial models.
• A research driven mindset that’s anchored in curiosity and balanced with excellent analytical, problem solving and project management skills.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills; able to work with all stakeholders at leadership and executive levels.

Serious bonus points if you have:

• Experience working at an Internet, and/or SaaS company.
• Worked with startups through Series A or Series B funding.
• Experience driving projects forward by collaborating with internal stakeholders, developing recommendations & output materials and presenting key deliverables.

What you will find here:

Compensation is one of the main components of Clio’s Total Rewards Program. We have developed a series of programs and processes to ensure we are creating fair and competitive pay practices that form the foundation of our human and high-performing culture.

Some highlights of our Total Rewards program include:

• Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance.
• Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Dublin) to be in office min. once per week on our Anchor Day.
• Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year.
• $2000 annual counseling benefit.
• RRSP matching and RESP contribution.
• Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years.

The full salary range* for this role is $97,600 to $114,800 to $132,000 CAD. Please note there are a separate set of salary bands for other regions based on local currency.

In addition, this role is eligible for variable pay that is based on company performance, with actual payout amounts calculated and paid on a quarterly basis.

* We aim to hire all candidates between the minimum and the midpoint of the full salary range. We reserve the midpoint to the maximum of the salary band for internal employees who demonstrate sustained high performance and impact at Clio. The final offer amount for this role will be dependent on individual experience and skillset of the candidate. Please note there are a separate set of salary bands for other regions based on local currency.

Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility

Our team shows up as their authentic selves, and are united by our mission. We are dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. We pride ourselves in building and fostering an environment where our teams feel included, valued, and enabled to do the best work of their careers, wherever they choose to log in from. We believe that different perspectives, skills, backgrounds, and experiences result in higher-performing teams and better innovation. We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Clio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Learn more about our culture at clio.com/careers.

At Clio, we are on a mission to transform the legal experience for all. As the world's leading provider of cloud-based legal software, we provide lawyers with low-barrier, affordable solutions to manage and grow their firms more effectively, more profitably, and with better client experiences. Through the cloud, we believe that we can help create a more inclusive legal community and a more equitable legal system.

This is a historic moment in the growth of legal technology! As the first legal practice management unicorn globally, and one of only a handful of Canadian unicorns, this is only the beginning.

If you’ve ever wanted to do the best work of your career, while having a meaningful impact in the lives of others, then Clio is the place for you.