Corporate Development Lead

Mercury; United States; A distancia; USD 162.000 - 225.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Mercury is building the financial stack for growth-stage fintechs, from banking to bill pay to forecasting. The Lead of Corporate Development will work directly with the CEO, CFO, and executive team on M&A, fundraising, and strategic projects that shape Mercury’s next moves.

You’ll own the M&A pipeline, run diligence and integration, and help craft investor narratives. This role offers broad exposure and the chance to build corp dev, IR, and strategy muscles as Mercury scales.

Formación

• 5–8 years of relevant experience with at least 2 years in an in-house corporate development seat at a tech company.
• Direct reps on live M&A deals—diligence, modeling and execution.
• Driven post-close integration across the company: managed cross-functional workstreams and realized the deal model.
• Highly analytical with ability to size analyses from back-of-envelope to full models.
• Experience working with AI to build workflows and scale output.
• Strong written and verbal communication for memos and board-ready slides.
• Comfortable collaborating across Product, Engineering, and GTM to translate into corp dev opportunities.
• Have a point of view and back it with analysis.

Responsabilidades

• Own M&A pipeline tracking and target sourcing across the roadmap.
• Partner with Product and GTM to surface M&A or partnerships that accelerate the roadmap.
• Run Mercury's Market Intel to inform exec decisions.
• Oversee M&A diligence, financial modeling, synergy analysis, and deal execution.
• Lead post-close integration across Finance, Product, Engineering, People, and Legal.
• Prepare Board materials with the Head of Corp Dev and executive team.
• Support investor relations: updates, KPI reporting, and fundraising materials.

Conocimientos

M&A modeling

Strategic partnerships

Financial analysis

Cross-functional leadership

AI workflows

Executive communication

Deal execution

Data analysis

Descripción del empleo

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.

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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