Mesh
Head of Corporate Development
New York City, NY · Exec
Sponsorship not specified$200k-$250kDetected 4 days ago
RailsNegotiationM&AEMI/EMCLeadershipCollaboration
About the role
- Today, trillions of dollars in tokenized assets exist but remain largely unusable for everyday commerce.
- Mesh is bridging this gap by making crypto payments reliable, useful, and ubiquitous.
- We combine a powerful orchestration engine with a seamless consumer app to unlock liquidity for the world.
Responsibilities
- Build and own a high-quality pipeline of M&A opportunities and strategic partnerships across the crypto payments ecosystem
- Lead deals end-to-end: from first outreach through diligence, negotiation, and close
- Run rigorous diligence across financials, product architecture, API integrations, and commercial viability, you'll go deep enough on the technical stack to assess build-vs-buy tradeoffs, evaluate integration complexity, and identify engineering risk before it becomes a deal problem
- Develop investment theses, deal frameworks, and scoring models
- Partner closely with Legal and Finance to structure and negotiate deals that actually get done
- Build and manage relationships with investment banks, advisors, and potential targets, becoming a go-to player in the ecosystem
- Develop investment theses, deal frameworks, and scoring models; present insights directly to the CEO, SVP, and board
- Mesh is hiring its first dedicated Corporate Development lead, a foundational role with a direct impact on the company's trajectory.
- This is an opportunity to build and own our M&A and strategic partnerships function from the ground up.
- From setting strategy to building a pipeline to closing deals, you'll operate across the full lifecycle, expanding our capabilities, licensing footprint, and distribution through thoughtful, well-executed partnerships and acquisitions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Business or Finance or related field
- 5+ years of experience in investment banking, growth, venture capital, product, or strategy roles, or in-house corporate development at a fintech or crypto company
- Strong grasp of crypto payments infrastructure (stablecoins, on/off-ramps, exchange integrations, custody, compliance), you know how the pieces fit together in the real world
Compensation
- The annual base salary range for this role is $200,000-$250,000 in San Francisco and New York.
Benefits
- Working knowledge of EMI / MSB / money transmitter licensing (or genuine interest in learning the regulatory side of the stack)
Company info
- At Mesh, our mission is to enable consumers to pay and be paid with any asset.
- Backed by leading investors like PayPal Ventures, Paradigm, and Galaxy Ventures, we are building the infrastructure for the next era of the global economy.
- We're looking for someone who thrives in early, unstructured environments, takes initiative, and is excited to turn ambition into action.
This listing is sourced directly from Mesh's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.