Corporate Development Manager

DoorDash DoorDash · Consumer · San Francisco, CA · 211 Corporate Development

Corporate Development Manager responsible for sourcing, evaluating, negotiating, and executing M&A and investments to accelerate DoorDash's strategic objectives. This role involves all aspects of the deal cycle, cross-functional coordination, financial modeling, and identifying strategic technologies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Participate in all aspects of the deal cycle, including sourcing, evaluation of business model attractiveness, strategic/financial analysis, valuation, due diligence, structuring and negotiation, and integration
  2. Build relationships with leaders at emerging and established companies as well as with investment banking, venture capital, and private equity firms
  3. Coordinate diligence, deal execution, and integration across cross-functional teams, including operations, engineering, product, finance, accounting, and legal
  4. Identify, research and recommend industries, companies and technologies for DoorDash to evaluate from an M&A or investment perspective and analyze the company's objectives and identify, recommend and pursue technologies that can accelerate those goals
  5. Develop and maintain financial models, dashboards and presentations that track and analyze our industry, as well as track prospective M&A opportunities

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • 6+ years of relevant experience (investment banking, corporate development, private equity, venture capital, management consulting)
  • Proficient in financial modeling
  • Proficient in valuation
  • Proficient in broad quantitative analysis
  • Familiarity of basic accounting principles
  • Ability to work effectively with cross-functional senior executives

Nice to have

  • understanding of the local delivery economy
  • understanding of the competitive landscape

What the JD emphasized

  • strategic objectives
  • strategic/financial analysis
  • strategic technologies