Manager, Corporate Development

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.  

This role is based in Sunnyvale or San Francisco.

LinkedIn’s Corporate Development team partners closely with cross-functional leaders to drive corporate and strategic initiatives), analyze market activity and competitive dynamics, and source, evaluate, execute and integrate M&A and strategic partnership opportunities. We seek exceptional candidates who are highly motivated, have a track record of academic and professional success, are driven to succeed and have enthusiasm and passion for LinkedIn’s professional suite of products.

The responsibilities of the Manager include delivering strategic projects, landscape insights, strategic finance projects, M&A analysis, and scenario evaluations to inform LinkedIn’s most-important business decisions. The right candidate has proven skills in financial modeling and strategic assessment/diligence, along with the curiosity and critical thinking needed to identify important factors that may never fit on a spreadsheet. In addition, the Manager must possess an ability to work directly with senior executives on company-critical projects.

This role is an excellent opportunity to join a small team that influences long-term company-wide investment initiatives that impact hundreds of millions of professionals worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Develop strong knowledge of our competitive ecosystem and deliver insightful analyses of market opportunities to inform our M&A strategy

• Support acquisitions by playing a quarterback role across all elements of the deal including defining acquisition rationale, valuation modeling, due diligence, deal negotiations, etc. This includes coordinating a multitude of internal teams across various stages of the process

• Manage post-acquisition integration by ensuring that cross-functional teams are all executing on their respective M&A integration plans

• Drive strategy projects end to end working closely with cross-functional partners

• Assist in building relationships with key players in the industry (e.g., VCs, founders, investment bankers, etc.)

• Assist the team in building world-class best practices and infrastructure to keep us running smoothly

• Build effective relationships with colleagues from across the organization

• Commitment to a minimum of two in-office days per week, depending on opportunities for team collaboration

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of work experience in management consulting, investment banking, private equity, corporate development at a technology company, or related experience

• Demonstrated ability and experience with building financial models (e.g., DCFs, M&A valuation, etc.)

• Prior experience in M&A deal execution and integration

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA

• Exposure to Consumer Internet and/or Software as a Service (SaaS) sectors

• Ability to formulate exec-level insights around complex business problems and create structured quantitative and qualitative analyses

• Ability to take ambiguous problems and provide structure and clarity 

• Exceptional oral and written communication skills & executive presence: able to articulately present and debate recommendations with senior leadership

• Strong personal initiative, excellent judgment and sense of humor

• Experience working with large data sets and using statistical analyses

• Desire to succeed in a demanding, innovative, and entrepreneurial environment: a highly proactive self-starter

• High aptitude to learn quickly, assimilate to new teams and projects, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and work well under pressure with appropriate attention to detail

Suggested Skills: 

• Strategic Thinking

• Executive-Level Communication

• Financia