Onebrief is hiring a Corporate Development Lead to drive our growth through acquisitions. This role owns the entire deal lifecycle, blending rigorous financial analysis with an operator’s mindset to ensure realized value after close.

What You'll Do

Maintain the target pipeline, building quick-turn screeners and conducting deep dives into market, competitive, product, and talent synergy.
Own the development of 3-statement models (DCF, comps, precedent transactions) and sensitivity analyses, translating outputs into crisp investment memos and Board materials.
Build and refine synergy cases for time-to-market, talent, revenue, cost, and capital, including bottom-up assumptions and risks.
Coordinate and track due diligence across all functional areas (Product, Technology, Customer/GTM, Finance, HR/People, Operations) and external advisors, driving Q&A closure and red-flag resolution.
Map due diligence workstream outputs directly to post-merger integration plans.
Collaborate to transition findings to integration teams, supporting their Day-1 readiness and Day-100 plans.
Maintain the investment case, due diligence log, and synergy tracker, ensuring auditability and version control.
Help codify lessons learned to evolve the M&A playbook for future deals.

What We're Looking For

1–3+ years of experience in Investment Banking, Private Equity, Transaction Services, Corporate Development, or Strategy.
Exposure to at least one live buy-side process from IOI/LOI through close or integration.
Exceptional financial acumen and mastery of Excel modeling (DCF, comps, LBO-style debt cases, synergy modeling), valuation methods, and scenario design.
Strong accounting literacy, including revenue recognition and purchase accounting basics.
Familiarity with Integration Management Office concepts like workstreams, Day-1/Day-100 planning, KPI tracking, and change management.
Understanding of how due diligence impacts integration plans and measurable outcomes.

Nice to Have

Experience with market & financial tools: Capital IQ, PitchBook, FactSet, Bloomberg; company filings; industry datasets.
Experience with modeling & BI tools: Excel/Google Sheets; PowerPoint/Slides.
Experience with deal & IMO ops tools: Virtual data rooms, project trackers like Notion.

Team & Environment

We take ownership, seek excellence, and play to win with the seriousness and camaraderie of an Olympic team. Success comes from ownership, clarity, and collaboration. We seek those who take initiative, actively identify what needs to be done, and move it forward. We care deeply about outcomes and learning, and we contribute to an atmosphere of trust and respect by being reliable, transparent, and generous with knowledge.