Corporate Development Roles — M&A, Strategic Finance, Partnerships
More than 1,345 executive roles classified in Corporate Development, with 106 new this week. Heads of CorpDev, M&A, and strategic finance — the executives who source, evaluate, and integrate inorganic growth.
Tier breakdown
27
Founder159
C-Suite724
VP77
Sr Director358
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 1,345 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 1,345)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Senior Director, Prior Authorization Governance Centene Corporation Lead enterprise-wide Prior Authorization governance strategy, oversight, and optimization across all lines of business. Partner with various departments to drive decision-making and business outcomes through data analytics and AI tools. Sr Director | Unknown Unknown |
| Mission Director - SOCOM Applied Intuition The Mission Director for SOCOM serves as the senior relationship and strategic shaping lead for Applied Intuition’s special operations portfolio, responsible for identifying and shaping strategic opportunities within special operations mission areas. VP | Washington, D.C. Onsite |
| Client Director - Cardinal Health Celonis The Client Director is responsible for managing strategic accounts, focusing on enterprise sales leadership and platform strategy for Celonis's most important accounts. VP | Remote, US, Ohio Remote |
| Vice President, Business Development and Alliance Management Xaira Therapeutics Lead the identification, development, negotiation, and execution of major strategic transactions for Xaira’s platform. VP | South San Francisco, California, United States Onsite |
| Director, Strategic Initiatives & Partner Ecosystem RentSpree Lead partner integrations and strategic initiatives, reporting directly to the CEO. Responsible for launching new partner integrations and driving strategic initiatives from concept to measurable outcomes. Director | Seattle, WA Hybrid |
| Director of Business Development ... growing engineering organization The role involves developing new business, growing client relationships, and expanding engineering services in the utility and power infrastructure market. Director | Decatur, Alabama Remote |
| Client Partner - Media & Entertainment, Ads Solutions OpenAI Responsible for driving new and expanded advertising revenue across leading media, streaming, entertainment, gaming, and content companies. Develop long-term commercial relationships and strategic partnerships. VP | Remote Remote |
| Agency Development Lead - Holdcos Taboola Lead North American agency development for assigned holding companies by building C-suite and senior agency relationships, driving strategic partnerships and revenue through enablement, workshops, cobranded activations, and enterprise commercial agreements. VP | New York, NY, USA Hybrid |
| Executive - Supply Chain Strategy Leader (M/F) GE Vernova The role involves leading the enterprise-wide evolution and deployment of GE Vernova’s Next Generation Supply Chain framework, partnering with business leaders to optimize the supply chain, and driving strategic initiatives across manufacturing, automation, and operational excellence. VP | Multiple locations including Cambridge, MA, US; Apodaca, NLE, MX; Atlanta, GA, US; Budapest, HU; Greenville, SC, US; IssyLesMoulineaux, FR; Madrid, ES. Unknown |
| Commercial Director - Private Client ... leading independent financial and fiduciary services provider A leading independent financial and fiduciary services provider is seeking a high-caliber Commercial Director to lead growth and client acquisition within their Private Client and Family Office division. VP | Jersey Channel Islands, Channel Islands, England Unknown |
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