Vice President, Corporate Strategy

The role

This person will contribute to organic growth strategy, M&A agenda, and new strategic initiatives. They will evaluate investment and acquisition opportunities and support strategic planning processes.

What you will do

• Support the Head of Strategy and work with team members across deal processes
• Contribute to the ongoing acquisition pipeline through sourcing and evaluation
• Develop an approach to investing into earlier stage companies
• Prepare materials for executive and board-level audiences
• Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders across transaction and integration workflows
• Represent Arcesium across the investment ecosystem
• Build and maintain a network of relationships for deal flow and strategic intelligence
• Help design new strategic initiatives
• Define scope and opportunity of the strategic initiative and set KPIs
• Conduct market research and partner with Product, Technology, and Commercial teams

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 7–12 years of experience in investment banking, corporate development, principal investing, private equity, venture capital, or a combination of the above
• Demonstrated experience running or significantly contributing to deal processes
• Strong financial modeling skills (LBO, DCF, venture return frameworks)
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Self-starter with a bias for action

Nice to have

• MBA or advanced degree
• Prior exposure to financial technology, data infrastructure, B2B SaaS, or capital markets technology
• Experience in a corporate development function at a technology company, or a principal investing role with meaningful deal ownership
• Experience leveraging AI and LLM tools to make corporate development work more efficient

Benefits

• Year-end bonus, guaranteed in the first year of hire
• Medical and prescription drug coverage
• 401k contribution matching

About the company

Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions.