VP, Corporate Development

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About Us</strong></p> <p><span data-teams="true">Pearl is AI for professional services at global scale, combining advanced AI with verified human expertise to deliver help that is accurate, accountable, and fast. Since 2003, our network has connected millions of customers with licensed professionals across 196 countries, making real expertise available anytime, anywhere.</span></p> <p><strong>Our Values</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Data driven:</strong> Data decides, not egos</li> <li><strong>Courageous:</strong> We take risks and challenge the status quo</li> <li><strong>Innovative:</strong> We're constantly learning, creating, and adapting</li> <li><strong>Lean:</strong> We focus on customers, using lean testing to learn how to serve them best</li> <li><strong>Humble:</strong> Past success is not a guarantee of future success</li> </ul></div><p><strong>About the Role</strong></p> <p>We’re seeking a world-class, market-facing strategist to serve as VP, Corporate Development, helping shape the next chapter of Pearl’s journey and fuel a global AI platform that empowers independent professionals to grow, scale, and succeed.</p> <p>This full-time role is expected to span <strong>18 to 24 months</strong>, offering the opportunity to lead high-impact work during a key period of strategic growth and operational evolution.</p> <p>Reporting directly to our CEO, you’ll serve as a <strong>business architect and strategic thought partner</strong>, shaping company strategy, optimizing our portfolio of brands, and building a compelling blueprint for sustainable, long-term value creation.</p> <p>This role goes beyond financial discipline. It’s about shaping Pearl’s value story, making the numbers support it, and building confidence with investors, strategic partners, the Board, and other external stakeholders.</p> <p>You’ll build on an already strong <strong>FP&amp;A foundation</strong>. This is not an accounting, controllership, or finance reporting role. Your focus will be investor relations, corporate development, strategic finance, long-term value creation, and market-facing leadership alongside the CEO.</p> <p><strong>You Are:</strong></p> <ul> <li>A strategic storyteller who sees financials as the language of vision and enterprise value.</li> <li>Energized by shaping outcomes, not just reporting them.</li> <li>Comfortable engaging directly with investors, analysts, the Board, and strategic partners.</li> <li>A proactive, outbound relationship builder who will hustle to expand Pearl’s stra