Director, Real Estate M&A & Growth (Remote)

RadNet, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Keller Williams Realty, LLC is seeking a Director of Mergers & Acquisitions to lead an aggressive inorganic growth strategy. You will source, qualify, and close deals, then shepherd transitions into operating teams across Market Centers.

This role reports to the Chief Revenue Officer and drives a repeatable acquisition function in a remote-friendly, Austin-based structure. The ideal candidate has a proven track record in dealmaking, valuation modeling, and retention economics within brokerage

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Marketing, Real Estate, or a related field.
• Minimum of five or more years of progressive M&A leadership experience.
• Proven dealmaker: experience leading deals from sourcing through close in corporate development, transaction advisory, or investment banking.
• Modeler: valuation and deal modeling, including earnouts, retention structures, and returns.
• PE/roll-up experience: track record in PE-backed or roll-up environments.
• Brokerage-literate: residential or commercial brokerage knowledge of economics driving brokerage value.
• Advisor management: experience managing external advisors and running a structured, metrics-driven pipeline.

Responsibilities

• Own a live, ranked pipeline with documented conversion stages from initial conversation to LOI to close, sized to the annual deal target.
• Direct and quality-control the third-party M&A partner's sourcing.
• Prioritize targets by geography using the whitespace map, tying each prospect to a tuck-in or a new Market Center launch.
• Own the valuation rubric and pricing discipline for target brokerages and teams, holding every deal to defined acquisition thresholds.
• Underwrite agent retention segmented by selling broker-owner, top producers, and roster tail; model economics with the CFO's office and pressure-test returns.
• Validate reported production and headcount against independent data and third-party benchmarking; diligence roster overlap and market cannibalization against receiving and neighboring Market Centers.
• Rank production, volume, and other dynamics in-market to understand scale and addressable universe.
• Structure earnouts, seller and top-producer retention, transition terms, and integration timelines.
• Negotiate agent-retention mechanics including retention bonuses, production-based earnout triggers, and non-solicits.
• Coordinate KW-led acquisition financing; model and negotiate closing terms and advisor fees.
• Move quickly on tuck-ins under defined authority; reserve board and/or senior management review for new Market Center launches and larger transactions.
• Drive LOI through diligence, legal, and close.
• Support the transition from signed deal to the operating team, sharing the deal thesis, retention plan, and key terms with the receiving Divisional Lead (Growth & Attraction), the Operating Principal, and the Team Leader.
• Stay available through early transition as the deal's point of reference. Brand conversion, office consolidation, and systems migration are executed by the operations and field teams.
• Feed retention outcomes and deal performance back into the valuation rubric and deal models.
• Own and refine the codified acquisition playbook: target criteria, vetting checklists, the valuation rubric, LOI and structuring templates, and the deal-to-transition checklist.
• Report pipeline conversion, time-to-close, deals closed, agents and production added, and 12-month retention.
• Support development of marketing materials to help sell the KW opportunity to independent brokerages.

Skills

M&A leadership

Deal sourcing & closing

Valuation modeling

Earnouts & retention

Brokerage economics

Advisor management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Marketing, Real Estate, or related field

Job description

Keller Williams Realty, LLC is seeking a Director of Mergers & Acquisitions to lead an aggressive inorganic growth strategy. You will source, qualify, and close deals, then shepherd transitions into operating teams across Market Centers.

This role reports to the Chief Revenue Officer and drives a repeatable acquisition function in a remote-friendly, Austin-based structure. The ideal candidate has a proven track record in dealmaking, valuation modeling, and retention economics within brokerage