Corporate Development Roles — M&A, Strategic Finance, Partnerships
More than 1,724 executive roles classified in Corporate Development, with 110 new this week. Heads of CorpDev, M&A, and strategic finance — the executives who source, evaluate, and integrate inorganic growth.
Tier breakdown
32
Founder197
C-Suite926
VP115
Sr Director454
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 1,724 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 1,724)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| General Manager Management Recruiters of Cumming The General Manager is responsible for overseeing the total operation of the assigned store location, including hiring, training, and managing staff, ensuring customer satisfaction, and maintaining store standards. VP | Lincoln, Nebraska, United States Onsite |
| VP of Sales (Aerospace Services) Joseph Michaels International Seeking an experienced Business Head to lead the aerospace services division, focusing on sales leadership, business development, and strategic planning. VP | Hartford, CT Onsite |
| Senior Partner Account Director - Technology Partnerships - AWS Braze Define and drive Braze's global strategy for its AWS partnership, own the Braze–AWS Strategic Collaboration Agreement, and align executive stakeholders. Requires 8+ years in SaaS/technology and 3+ years in partnerships. VP | San Francisco, CA Hybrid |
| Director, Business Development Route 92 Medical The Director of Business Development will identify, evaluate, negotiate, execute, and manage strategic transactions to advance Route 92 Medical's portfolio and growth objectives. The role involves leading the full transaction lifecycle and building relationships with partners. Director | San Diego, CA, US Unknown |
| Head of Fintech Partnerships Félix The Head of Fintech Partnerships will architect and manage the financial infrastructure at Félix, focusing on partnerships with banks, payment processors, and stablecoin issuers. The role involves strategic operations at the intersection of traditional finance and Web3. VP | San Francisco, CA Hybrid |
| Director of Partnerships and Business Development Eleos Health Seeking a strategic Director to build and lead Eleos’ partnerships function, reporting to the VP of Growth. Responsible for partnership strategy and execution across various portfolios. Director | Remote Remote |
| Senior Director, Business Development, Compliance & Trade Surveillance ... Harrington Starr Further details will be provided on application. Sr Director | New York, New York, United States Unknown |
| Principal / Director, Product Origination & Distribution Strategy, Insurance KKR Lead and manage product origination and distribution strategy for insurance products. VP | New York, NY Unknown |
| Business Development Director ... Green Key Resources Lead strategic business development initiatives, collaborate with leadership, and manage CRM systems in the Architecture, Engineering & Construction industry. Director | Atlanta, Georgia Hybrid |
| Head of Offline Expansion PayJoy The role involves overseeing offline expansion projects, managing project scope, timelines, and deliverables, coordinating stakeholders, and driving sales initiatives. VP | Jakarta Hybrid |
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