Director, Corporate Development

About Us

DriveWealth is on a mission to make investing easier. We believe that everyone should have the ability to control their financial future, and that access to financial markets should not be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems. We are a global B2B financial technology organization dedicated to democratizing access to financial independence around the world. Our mission is realized through an API-based platform, empowering our partners to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide, all from their mobile devices. Our technology provides partners with a modern, extensible toolkit, enabling traditional investment workflows and innovative techniques like fractional share ownership. DriveWealth has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options.

There’s never been a better time to build a category-defining business and there has rarely been a team better positioned for this opportunity. Our culture blends the pace and agility of a fintech start-up with the impact, stability, and discipline of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. Join us and help build the future of global investing!

About the Role

The Director, Corporate Development will play a key role in identifying, evaluating and executing M&A transactions, investments and other inorganic opportunities that will accelerate DriveWealth’s mission and strategic growth priorities. The position will facilitate and lead all phases of the acquisition process. Key functions will include identification, screening, evaluation, deal structuring and negotiation, due diligence, closing and integration of transactions. This role will work closely with business unit leaders, external advisors, as well as senior management.

What You’ll Do

Strategic Sourcing & Market Intelligence

• Strategic Landscaping: Lead industry analysis and landscape studies to proactively identify M&A, investment, and partnership opportunities that accelerate DriveWealth’s global Brokerage-as-a-Service footprint
• Inorganic Strategy: Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to architect Build-Buy-Partner frameworks
• External Liaison: Serve as a point of contact for the investment banking and venture capital communities to further DriveWealth as the "partner of choice" for high-impact fintech deal flow

Deal Execution

• End-to-End Deal Ownership: Act as the primary execution lead for the entire M&A lifecycle—from initial target outreach and NDA negotiation to financial due diligence, deal structuring, and closing.
• Cross-Functional Orchestration: Direct diligence teams across Tech, Legal, Brokerage Operations, Finance, and HR, ensuring a holistic evaluation of a target’s technology stack and regulatory compliance
• Negotiation & Structuring: Drive the negotiation of transaction-related agreements, focusing on sophisticated risk allocation and long-term synergy capture
• Integration Planning: Lead the hand-off from deal close to integration, ensuring that acquired technologies or teams are seamlessly embedded into the DriveWealth ecosystem
• Post-Close Performance: Develop and track Post-Closing Performance Dashboards to measure realized synergies against the original investment thesis, ensuring our inorganic moves drive measurable ROI

Analysis & Presentation

• Advanced Valuation: Own the creation of complex financial models, including pro-forma impact, synergy realization, and equity-return analyses to assess deal viability
• Data-Driven Conviction: Translate intricate deal frameworks into clear, high-impact narratives that enable leadership and the Board to make rapid, high-stakes decisions

Operational Excellence

• M&A Playbook: Develop and continuously refine a "state-of-the-art" M&A toolkit, leveraging AI tools to automate data room analysis and streamline the process

What You Bring

• 7+ years of experience in investment banking or corporate development, preferably in Financial Services and/or Fintech or equivalent industries
• Bachelor’s Degree in related field
• A track record of ownership and disciplined execution in high-stakes environments
• The ability to prioritize ruthlessly, focussing on what’s critical versus important to drive work to completion
• A client-oriented mindset with an understanding of how your work impacts partners
• Strength in cross-functional partnership with the judgment to coordinate across multiple teams
• A bias toward transparency, accoun