Director of Corporate Development (Software)

Location: Fully remote, with flexible hours and the ability to work from anywhere in the world

Company

Global remote-first provider of high-volume, low-cost Linux infrastructure and security products.

What you will do

• Build and maintain acquisition and partnership pipelines through market mapping, target identification, outreach, and relationships with bankers, brokers, founders, and advisers.
• Design and apply standardized screening and scoring frameworks covering strategic fit, financial returns, technology, integration complexity, and counterparty risk.
• Build valuation, transaction, financing, scenario, sensitivity, acquisition-budget, and integration-budget models for active opportunities.
• Coordinate financial, legal, technology, leadership, and counterparty due diligence, translating findings into deal structures and negotiation recommendations.
• Own post-close integration planning, including 100-day plans, financial reporting onboarding, budget integration, systems transition, and synergy tracking.
• Support long-term strategy, capital formation, strategic alliances, joint ventures, commercial agreements, and the development of the corporate development function.

Requirements

• 8+ years of combined experience in corporate development, investment banking, private equity, and/or transaction advisory, including direct origination.
• Experience coordinating financial, legal, and human due diligence and evaluating leadership, culture, reputation, and counterparty risk.
• Ability to build three-statement, valuation, scenario, and sensitivity models from a blank workbook.
• Experience presenting recommendations to executives or investment committees and defending analysis under challenge.
• Working knowledge of software or recurring-revenue business models, post-merger integration, strategic alliances, joint ventures, and major commercial agreements.
• Strong judgment, composure, persistence, attention to detail, discretion, communication, collaboration, and accountability.

Nice to have

• MBA or Big Four transaction advisory experience.
• Software industry experience or experience founding a finance or corporate development function.
• Established network among software-sector bankers, brokers, or founders.
• Experience partnering with or operating within FP&A.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first environment with flexible working hours and worldwide work availability.
• Professional development through learning opportunities, mentoring, and knowledge-exchange programs.
• 24 paid vacation days, 10 national holidays, and unlimited sick leave.
• Private medical insurance, co-working reimbursement, and gym or sports reimbursement.
• Reward opportunity for innovative ideas that can be patented.