Corporate Development Strategy and Scouting Associate

Socket.dev; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google’s Corporate Development team in Mountain View identifies and sequences acquisition and investment opportunities globally, shaping inorganic growth across AI, infrastructure, and consumer ecosystems. You will translate strategy into actionable opportunities and lead high-impact analyses with executives and partners.

As part of Strategy and Scouting, you’ll collaborate with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Finance, mentoring teams while shaping Google’s direction through rigorous market and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience working on business agreements.
• 2 years of experience conducting industry research and developing insights on present and future trends.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a thought leader in driving inorganic strategy - cross-functional with Product, Engineering, Legal, Finance, etc. to present opportunities to Executive Leadership.
• Monitor internal product development across consumer and enterprise AI, technology infrastructure, and related industries.
• Perform analyses on thematic areas; build relationships with startups, venture funds and internal Google leaders.
• Identify acquisitions and investments; translate ecosystem findings into actionable insights and recommendations.
• Collaborate on transaction execution including framing, due diligence, financial analysis, and executive reviews.

Skills

Bachelor's degree

Business agreements experience

Industry research

Strategy & operations

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience working on business agreements.
• 2 years of experience conducting industry research and developing insights on present and future trends.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in management consulting, venture capital, strategy and operations, private equity, corporate development or investment banking experience in the technology industry.
• Experience sharing cross-functional perspectives with internal stakeholders as well as working directly with founders and investors.
• Familiarity with Google’s business priorities, especially in consumer and enterprise AI or technology infrastructure.
• Excellent quantitative/qualitative skills with the ability to navigate technical, fast-evolving and at times ambiguous emerging technology areas.
• Excellent people management, executive communications, business judgment and work ethic skills.

About the job:

The Corporate Development team drives Google's worldwide growth by identifying exciting acquisition and investment opportunities globally across existing and future markets - and then working to make them happen. Consisting of experienced strategy and scouting specialists, merger and acquisition (M&A) leaders, investment professionals and integration experts, we're dedicated to identifying the business opportunities of tomorrow. We drive M&A/investment decisions, lead agreement negotiations, and help run post-acquisition integration and performance evaluation.

As a member of the Corporate Development Strategy and Scouting team, you will be responsible for helping develop and translate Google’s strategy into the most compelling inorganic opportunities - across acquisitions, investments and other novel agreement structures. You will have a constant pulse on ecosystem trends, investment themes and the startup landscape - particularly in AI, infrastructure and the consumer ecosystem. You will proactively raise the highest-impact companies and technologies to the most executive Google leaders. You will also serve as an advisor - helping shape Google’s direction through high-conviction inorganic ideas that accelerate our efforts.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $123000 - $176000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities:

• Serve as aprovocative thought leader in driving inorganic strategy - working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Legal, Finance, etc. to present opportunities to Executive Leadership.
• Have a pulse on internal product development efforts across consumer and enterprise AI, technology infrastructure, deep-technical and adjacent industries.
• Perform engaged analyses on thematic areas of focus. Build strong relationships externally across startups, venture funds/technical industry ecosystems and internally with Google business and product leaders.
• Identify acquisitions on acquisitions and investments opportunities by translating ecosystem findings into actionable insights and agreement recommendations.
• Collaborate on transaction execution - including opportunity framing/thesis building, diligence, financial analysis, agreement structuring and executive reviews to help drive agreement decisions.