Paxos
Corporate Development Lead
Remote - San Francisco, California · Senior
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About the role
- You'll be the sole member of our Corporate Development function, working side by side with the executive team on Paxos's fundraising and inorganic growth.
Responsibilities
- Own the M&A process end-to-end:
- Develop Investment and M&A theses by researching and monitoring emerging trends and disruptive companies and deeply understanding Paxos product strategy and overall priorities
- Source, evaluate, and execute acquisitions - lead cross-functional diligence, drive structuring, negotiation, and close
- Build and maintain a live pipeline of targets aligned to Paxos's strategic priorities across infrastructure, distribution, and regulated capabilities
- Conduct analysis of operating performance, lead market diligence, and prepare investment memos. Develop rigorous financial models and valuation frameworks
- Own fundraising process & investor relations:
- Maintain ongoing relationships with current and prospective investors between raises providing regular investor updates
- Be a strategic partner to the executive team:
Nice to have
- Demonstrated track record of executing M&A or investment transactions - you have closed deals, not just supported them
- Strong financial modeling and valuation skills
- Familiarity with the blockchain infrastructure, digital asset, or fintech space is a plus
- Excellent communication skills - you can present a nuanced deal thesis to a CFO and explain a term sheet to an engineer
- Comfort operating as an IC in a fast-moving environment
- you don't need a team to be effective, and you know how to pull in the right internal stakeholders at the right moment
- You default to AI and take pride in your work.
- You likely have 7+ years of work experience
Skills
- Continue to scale Paxos Ventures. To date, Paxos has made over 25 venture investments across the digital asset space
- Source, evaluate and recommend early stage venture investments that further Paxos strategic priorities
Benefits
- Lead end-to-end equity fundraise processes - drive workstreams, prepare investor materials, build and manage data rooms, coordinate diligence, and control the process timeline
Company info
- You'll partner with executive and product leadership to develop investment theses, and work with teams across the company to make sure deals deliver after they close.
Visa & Work Authorization
- For over a decade, we've built blockchain infrastructure that tokenizes, custodies, trades and settles assets for the world's leading financial institutions, like Mastercard, Visa, Robinhood, and PayPal.
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