Corporate Development Roles — M&A, Strategic Finance, Partnerships
More than 1,567 executive roles classified in Corporate Development, with 96 new this week. Heads of CorpDev, M&A, and strategic finance — the executives who source, evaluate, and integrate inorganic growth.
Tier breakdown
26
Founder122
C-Suite745
VP132
Sr Director542
DirectorWhat this category covers
Corporate Development covers the leaders responsible for inorganic growth: M&A, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, and sometimes venture investing. They sit at the intersection of finance, strategy, and the CEO's office.
The flagship includes Strategic Finance roles where the mandate is deal evaluation and integration, plus VP-level partnership and BD roles when they carry transactional authority rather than pure pipeline ownership.
Across the 1,567 active roles in this category, the largest tier is VP. The classifier weighs company size, scope, and reporting line — not just the title prefix — so the tier mix reflects real responsibility, not vanity titles.
What falls outside: pure investor-relations roles (those land in Communications) and routine FP&A finance roles (those go under CFO & Finance Leadership).
Sample Jobs (10 of 1,567)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives Centene Develop and direct strategic business initiatives within enterprise priorities, including product offerings, management, development, and enhancement. Partner with leadership to drive strategic initiatives from development to execution. Sr Director | Remote Remote |
| Vice President, Strategic Partnerships Upgrade The role involves leading strategic partnerships to expand Upgrade's personal lending business through enterprise partnerships. Responsibilities include developing partnerships, negotiating agreements, and managing onboarding processes. VP | Remote Remote |
| Vice Chancellor and Chief Advancement Officer ... Jewish Theological Seminary The Jewish Theological Seminary seeks a strategic advancement leader to serve as Vice Chancellor and Chief Advancement Officer, responsible for leading the advancement enterprise and securing philanthropic resources. C-Suite | New York, NY Onsite |
| Genie Sales Director (AI/BI) Databricks The Genie Sales Director will accelerate the adoption of Databricks Genie across large enterprise customers, connecting business priorities with data, BI, and AI capabilities. Director | United States Unknown |
| Vice President Sales & Strategic Funding Isar Aerospace Responsible for driving commercial growth through customer acquisition, strategic partnerships, business development, grants, and non-dilutive funding initiatives. Reports to the Chief Commercial Officer. VP | Parsdorf, Bavaria, Germany Onsite |
| Global Commercial Director (Luxury Home & Body Care) ... European manufacturer and marketer of luxury scented products The role involves global responsibility for the commercial organization, covering proprietary brands and private label business. It includes leading distribution teams, securing distribution agreements, and balancing brand growth with private label volume. Director | Porto, Portugal Onsite |
| Divisional Chief Commercial Officer (dCCO) Alloy Therapeutics The role involves defining product portfolios, expanding market reach, and managing a team in the Antibody-Powered Division at Alloy Therapeutics. C-Suite | Waltham, MA Onsite |
| Sr. Director, Platform Monetization Material Bank Material Bank is seeking a Sr. Director, Platform Monetization to develop, launch, and scale new growth opportunities across the Material Bank platform. This role involves platform innovation, merchandising opportunities, new programs, and optimization of existing offerings. Sr Director | Remote Remote |
| Director, Business Development QuantumScape Lead customer engagement, opportunity capture, strategic partnerships, and revenue growth within the defense sector for QuantumScape. VP | Remote Remote |
| Senior Director, Partnerships - Tech, Finance, Auto Vox Media Responsible for expanding high-value relationships and driving new business growth across New York Magazine, the Vox Media Podcast Network, and Vox.com. Requires strategic partnership development and consultative sales leadership. Sr Director | New York, NY Onsite |
How classification gets to this category
Corporate Development classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other category, with category-specific signal at three stages:
- Title recognition. Direct title hits resolve fast — common variants are recognized immediately, including the senior, VP, and Director-tier flavors.
- Compensation threshold. An exec-tier base-comp floor filters out individual-contributor roles that share the title language. Roles below the floor in unambiguous category titles are flagged for manual review rather than auto-classified.
- JD signals for ambiguous cases. GPT reads the JD for M&A pipeline ownership, deal sizing, integration responsibility, and reporting line. CorpDev roles reporting to the CFO or directly to the CEO carry different scope signals than divisional BD roles with the same title. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
Negative filters explicitly block adjacent IC and analyst roles whose titles can resemble executive ones. The result: Corporate Development as a category in your inbox is the executive cut, not the entry-level cut.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Corporate Development is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select Corporate Development + Private Equity & Venture Capital and you see PortCo CorpDev leaders and platform deal heads — not entry-level analyst roles, not divisional BD — your inbox shows the intersection, not the union. You won't see roles that match only one of the filters and not the other.
Tier filtering layers on top. If you only want VP-tier and above in this category, the seniority-tier filter does that cleanly. Restrict further to C-suite only to see the most senior seats, or open it up to Director-tier to widen the funnel during early-stage exploration.
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