Corporate Development Lead

The role

The Corporate Development Lead drives inorganic growth strategy by identifying, structuring, and executing acquisitions. This person also owns the fundraising process and manages investor relations while supporting the executive team.

What you will do

• Own the M&A process end-to-end
• Develop investment and M&A theses through research
• Source, evaluate, and execute acquisitions
• Build and maintain a live pipeline of targets
• Conduct analysis of operating performance and lead market diligence
• Develop financial models and valuation frameworks
• Lead end-to-end equity fundraise processes
• Maintain relationships with current and prospective investors
• Provide external views on competitors and market structure to leadership
• Source, evaluate and recommend early stage venture investments

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated track record of executing M&A or investment transactions
• Strong financial modeling and valuation skills
• Proven ability to own a fundraising process end-to-end
• Excellent communication skills
• Comfort operating as an IC in a fast-moving environment
• Default to AI
• 7+ years of work experience

Nice to have

• Familiarity with the blockchain infrastructure, digital asset, or fintech space

About the company

Paxos is rebuilding financial infrastructure to enable the instant movement of any asset. They build blockchain infrastructure that tokenizes, custodies, trades and settles assets for leading financial institutions.