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Senior Director Corporate Development

GoDaddy

Santa Clara (CA)

Hybrid

USD 120,000 - 180,000

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Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a seasoned Corporate Development professional to lead strategic investments and acquisitions. This pivotal role involves driving growth through meticulous deal execution, fostering relationships with executives, and aligning investments with long-term goals. The ideal candidate will possess a blend of negotiation prowess, project management skills, and a hunger for innovation. Join a dynamic team that values creativity and strategic thinking, and play a crucial role in shaping the future of the company while enjoying a flexible work environment that embraces diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Paid Time Off
Retirement Savings
Bonus/Incentive Eligibility
Equity Grants
Health Benefits
Parental Leave
Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of transaction experience in public corporations or investment banks.
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills for engaging with leaders.

Responsibilities

  • Cultivate strategic relationships to identify investment and acquisition opportunities.
  • Lead deal processes from financial modeling to negotiations and post-merger integration.

Skills

Transaction Experience
Negotiation Skills
Financial Modeling
Project Management
Communication Skills
Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics or Computer Science
Master’s degree in Business Administration

Job description

Location Details:Santa Clara or United States, Remote

At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time, others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days)and some work entirely remotely.

This position may be a hybrid or fully remote position, as decided by your manager. If designated as hybrid, you’ll divide your time between working remotely from your home and an office location, so you should live within commuting distance. If designated as remote, you’ll be working remotely from your home and may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings. Your hiring manager can share more about this role’s hybrid or remote designation.

This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands.

Join our team

The Corporate Development team is at the forefront of driving and accelerating the next chapter of growth and plays a foundational role in driving company growth via the identification of industry trends, managing and growing relationships with external partners, as well as identifying, negotiating, structuring, and driving strategic acquisitions and investments!

Reporting into GoDaddy’s Head of Corporate Development, this professional leads transaction teams of corporate development, functional and business professionals to drive growth and enhance GoDaddy’s market position through portfolio reviews, strategic investments and acquisitions. This leader plays a pivotal role in crafting future growth through investments, acquisitions, and innovation to improve capabilities and expand market presence.

If you have a blend of hunger, intellectual curiosity, hunter-mentality, and creativity, with exceptional communication, project management, problem solving, negotiation, deal execution and quantitative skills, coupled with excellent business judgment, this would be an enticing opportunity!

What you'll get to do...

  • Cultivate robust strategic relationships with our executives and business unit leaders, to identify, evaluate, and accelerate strategic investment and acquisition opportunities
  • Lead, drive, and coordinate all aspects of inorganic growth, by helping identify and develop a pipeline of investment and acquisition opportunities by leveraging and expanding
  • Align closely with our strategy and partnerships team, on investment and acquisition opportunities in line with our long-term strategic and operational goals
  • Drive across all aspects of the deal process, including financial modeling, due diligence, structuring, negotiations and closing, as well as overseeing all aspects of post-merger integration activities, in partnership with our integration team
  • Craft, establish and maintain deal playbooks to ensure a robust and repeatable process to sourcing, appraising acquisition opportunities efficiently, from due diligence to signing to closing
  • Lead all aspects of, and ensure the financial success of projects, through meticulous case modeling and due diligence
  • Engage closely with senior leaders across our business units and strategy team, to complete strategic investments and acquisitions aligned with our long-term strategies
  • Conduct regular assessments of our portfolio, and ensure it is optimized through divestitures and other corporate actions
  • Own and lead partner coordination, across our investment and acquisition activities

Your experience should include...

  • 15+ years of extensive and progressive transaction experience within a public corporation, investment bank or private equity firm. Prior corporate development experience at a mid-to-large size public technology company is preferred
  • Comprehensive and significant experience across all facets of deal execution, including target identification, analysis, due diligence, negotiation, and post-deal integration, as well as ongoing portfolio analysis and optimization, including through divestitures
  • Independently leading deals, with significant experience in sourcing, negotiating, structuring and closing complex transactions across acquisitions, strategic investments, warrants, and divestitures
  • Exceptional communication, persuasion and presentation skills, with the ability to engage and align with partners and senior leaders at all levels within the organization along with demonstrated ability to run multiple projects concurrently, while aligning seamlessly with product, tech, corporate and related teams
  • Consistent track record in mentoring, coaching and continuous learning, across both direct reports and your own development
  • Track record of continuous improvement in end-to-end deal processes including usage of advanced technology and AI to effect enhancements

You might also have...

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics or Computer Science
  • Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Business Administration

We'vegot your back...We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy’s benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way.

About us... GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us.

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can befound on our Diversity Careers page.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements.Refer to our full EEO policy.

Our recruiting team is available to assist you in completing your application. If they could be helpful, please reach out to myrecruiter@godaddy.com.

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