Manager, Corporate Development

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in corporate development, venture capital, private equity, or investment banking experience in the technology industry.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working in India or Southeast Asia.
• Experience in Internet, communications, e-commerce, Google product knowledge and strong cross-functional perspectives.
• Experience building financial models and valuing companies, with excellent quantitative and qualitative, strategic and investigative skills.
• Ability to self-initiate with strong attention to detail. Excellent communication skills, business acumen, and work ethic.

Responsibilities

• Research industry trends, competitive landscape, and internal product development efforts.
• Partner with business and product teams to identify, evaluate, and value potential acquisitions and investments.
• Execute transactions, including diligence, valuation, structuring, and facilitations, working collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Drive management team decisions, interfacing with key internal executives.
• Develop ecosystem relationships and attend events to understand key trends/perspectives.

About the job

The Corporate Development team holds the reins to much of our worldwide growth. As a member of the Corporate Development team, you work collaboratively across functions (including Legal, Finance and People Operations) to identify and evaluate both acquisition and investment opportunities. You provide the management team with the needed insight to drive intelligent, sound decision-making. You understand the industry landscape and harness it to manage our deals and integration. With an air of humility, you bring strong quantitative skills, strategic thinking and sound business judgment, along with the ability to think about what is -- and what could be.

The Corporate Development team drives Google's worldwide growth by identifying exciting acquisition and strategic investment opportunities across existing and future markets – and then working to make them happen. Consisting of experienced merger-and-acquisition leaders, investment professionals, scouting and strategy specialists, and integration experts, we're dedicated to identifying the business opportunities of tomorrow. We drive team decisions, lead negotiations, and help run post-acquisition integration and performance evaluation.