Corporate Development Roles — M&A, Strategic Finance, Partnerships
More than 1,343 executive roles classified in Corporate Development, with 103 new this week. Heads of CorpDev, M&A, and strategic finance — the executives who source, evaluate, and integrate inorganic growth.
Tier breakdown
30
Founder146
C-Suite730
VP88
Sr Director349
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 1,343 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 1,343)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Africa Regional Lead, Stablecoin Solutions Anchorage Digital Lead go-to-market strategy for stablecoin issuance and banking solutions in Africa, focusing on strategic partnerships with banks and enterprises. VP | Remote Remote |
| VP, Market Strategy & Ecosystem — Tableau Salesforce Lead Tableau's market strategy, build partner ecosystems, and drive revenue growth in alignment with Salesforce's platform vision. VP | California - San Francisco Hybrid |
| Director of Design ... Bespoke Careers A growing, design-led studio is seeking a Director of Design to lead its creative team, oversee high-profile projects, and play a key role in business development. VP | New York, United States of America Unknown |
| Vice President, Global Commercial Asset Lead MBX Biosciences The Vice President, Global Commercial Asset Lead will be responsible for leading commercial strategies and execution for MBX Biosciences' assets. This includes market analysis, strategic planning, and cross-functional leadership. VP | Unknown Unknown |
| Director, Growth Commure The Director of Growth will architect and operate the growth engine, designing systems, running experiments, and collaborating with various departments. The role involves full-funnel growth system ownership, growth stack & analytics, creative system, and cross-functional alignment. Director | San Francisco Bay Area or Remote Hybrid |
| Director of Proposals CesiumAstro Responsible for developing and leading the proposal operations function at CesiumAstro, working closely with executives and engineers to develop proposal responses. Director | El Segundo, CA Onsite |
| Director of Strategic Philanthropy, Northeast Region American Friends of Magen David Adom Seeking a Director of Strategic Philanthropy for the Northeast Region to lead fundraising efforts and oversee regional operations. C-Suite | New York, NY Hybrid |
| Executive Director, Business Development - Central Lab Services Labcorp The role involves leading a team of Business Development Directors, achieving sales goals, and developing client relationships in Central Lab Services. It requires 10 years of experience in selling services to pharmaceutical and biotech organizations and 4 years of sales leadership experience. C-Suite | Remote Remote |
| Agency Development Lead, DACH Reddit The role involves growing Reddit's presence in the DACH region through strategic partnerships, education programs, and business solutions. VP | Berlin, Germany Onsite |
| Director of Client Success, Arrive Fresh Arrive Logistics Lead the Client Success Department for Arrive Fresh, focusing on perishable cold-chain logistics. Requires extensive experience in logistics and brokerage. Director | Austin, TX 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.
Remote mix