Corporate Development Strategy and Scouting Associate

Google Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Google seeks a Corporate Development Strategy and Scouting Associate to help identify and translate inorganic opportunities. You will work with product, legal, finance, and leadership to evaluate acquisitions and investments, tracking AI and infrastructure trends and engaging with startups and venture ecosystems.

Role requires strong analytical and communication skills, and experience with business agreements and market insights. Location includes Mountain View and San Francisco, CA.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in business agreements.
• 2 years of industry research and insights experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a provocative thought leader in driving inorganic strategy with cross-functional teams.
• Monitor internal product development across consumer AI and infrastructure.
• Perform analyses on thematic focus areas and build external relationships with startups and ecosystems.
• Identify acquisitions and investments by translating findings into actionable insights.
• Collaborate on transaction execution including framing, diligence, and negotiations.

Skills

Analytical skills

Executive communications

People management

Cross-functional collaboration

Industry insights

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Corporate Development Strategy and Scouting Associate

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Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

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• 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; navigate technical, fast-evolving and at times ambiguous emerging technology areas.
• Excellent people management, executive communications and row w ??

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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• 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.

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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