Corporate Development Lead

Teli Labs; Portland (OR); Remote; USD 162,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury is building a fintech-focused platform and is expanding its Corporate Development function. The Lead will drive M&A, fundraising, investor relations, and strategic projects directly with the CEO, CFO, and executive team, shaping Mercury's growth trajectory.

You’ll own pipeline, diligence, integration, and cross-functional coordination with Product, Engineering, and GTM teams, while also supporting investor updates and fundraising narratives.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of relevant experience, with at least 2 years in an in-house Corporate Development role at a tech company
• Direct experience on live M&A deals including diligence, modeling and execution
• Experience driving post-close integration with cross-functional teams
• Strong analytical skills and ability to size analyses from quick estimates to full models
• Comfortable working with AI-enabled workflows and translating strategy into actions at pace

Responsibilities

• Lead M&A pipeline tracking, target sourcing, and maintain a live view of strategic opportunities
• Collaborate with Product and GTM leadership to surface M&A or strategic partnership opportunities
• Oversee Market Intel and competitive signal analysis to inform executive decisions
• Support investor relations and fundraising activities with board materials and narrative

Skills

M&A experience

Financial modeling

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Corporate Development Lead

San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States

Mercury is building the financial stack ambitious companies use to operate, from banking* to bill pay to forecasting, and everything in between. As we scale, the strategic choices we make about what we build, who we buy, and who we partner with are some of the highest-leverage decisions in the business. To help us make those bets well, we're hiring a Lead on our Corporate Development team.

This role reports to the Head of Corporate Development. You'll work on M&A, fundraising, investor relations, and strategic projects that shape where Mercury goes next, with a seat at the table on those decisions at a profitable, growth-stage fintech and direct exposure to our CEO, CFO, and executive team.

This is a function being built, so you'll have the chance to build the corp dev, IR, and strategy muscle at Mercury as we grow, with reps on real deals. We've closed two acquisitions and the M&A roadmap is active. We run Corp Dev as an AI-native, flat, and high-agency team.

What You'll Do

M&A and Strategic Investments:

• Own M&A pipeline tracking and target sourcing - keep a living view of strategic and financial opportunities across our roadmap
• Partner closely with Product and GTM leadership to surface where M&A or strategic partnerships could accelerate the roadmap - translating product strategy and GTM gaps into a live, prioritized M&A thesis
• Run Mercury's Market Intel function - maintain a steady flow of competitive and industry intelligence that informs exec decision-making (fintech peers, public comps, private market signals)
• Run M&A diligence - financial modeling, target evaluation, synergy analysis, working with legal/finance/product on deal execution
• Drive post-close integration: own the integration plan, run the cross-functional workstreams (Finance, Product, Engineering, People, Legal) and track the deal against the model it was bought on

Investor Relations

• Drive preparation of Mercury's Board of Directors materials, alongside the Head of Corp Dev, partnering with the exec team on content and narrative
• Support investor relations: investor updates, KPI reporting, comps tracking, ad hoc requests from existing investors
• Build fundraising materials - pitch decks, data room, financial models, investor narrative - alongside the Head of Corp Dev and CFO

You Might Be a Fit If You

• Have 5–8 years of relevant experience, with at least 2 years in an in-house Corporate Development seat at a tech company. Investment banking, PE, or growth equity experience before that is welcome but not required
• Have direct reps on live M&A deals - diligence, modeling and execution
• Have driven post-close integration on the company side: owned the plan after a deal closed, ran the cross-functional workstreams, and were accountable for whether the deal delivered what the model said
• Are highly analytical and comfortable with data: you can pull the numbers yourself, find what matters in them, and size the analysis to the decision, from a back-of-envelope estimate to a full model
• Work with AI every day: you have used AI to build your own workflows and scaled your output
• Write clearly. Can take a messy strategic question and produce a memo or board-ready slide that drives a decision
• Are comfortable operating across Product, Engineering, and GTM - you can hold a real conversation with a PM about roadmap tradeoffs and with a sales leader about pipeline gaps, and translate both into corp dev opportunities
• Have a point of view. Can disagree with senior leaders constructively and back it up with analysis
• Bonus for having experience ave or demonstrated interest in fintech, in banking/payments business models (interchange, NIM, deposit economics) or B2B SaaS pricing
• Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.

Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.

Total Rewards

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.

Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:

US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area:

$180,200 - $225,200 USD

US employees outside of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area:

$162,200 - $202,700 USD

Canadian employees (any location):

$170,300 - $212,800 CAD