Forter

Forter

Senior Corporate Development Manager

United States - New York · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$190k-$234kDetected 5 days ago
Agentic AISalesforceBusiness DevelopmentNegotiationFinancial ModelingFinancial AnalysisValuationM&A

About the role

  • Forter is entering a phase of increased focus on inorganic growth, strategic partnerships and new value creation opportunities, as part of our broader strategy to become the trust engine for agentic commerce.

Responsibilities

  • M&A Infrastructure: Build Forter's formal M&A playbook, including build/buy/partner frameworks, due diligence processes, and post-merger integration templates.
  • Deal Sourcing & Pipeline: Source and evaluate acquisition and partnership opportunities, building a prioritized pipeline with clear strategic rationale and investment theses.
  • Deal Execution: Drive M&A transactions end to end, coordinating due diligence, transaction documents, and closing activities across functions.
  • Post-Acquisition Integration: Lead integration planning and execution, covering operating model, product/tech integration, data and compliance, and people and culture.
  • Financial Analysis: Partner with Finance on valuation, financial modeling, and return analysis to support disciplined decision-making.
  • Ecosystem & Data Strategy: Help shape strategy for unlocking value from Forter's data network, and represent Forter externally with partners, investors, and industry forums.
  • Drive M&A transactions end to end, coordinating due diligence, transaction documents, and closing activities across functions.
  • Partner with Finance on valuation, financial modeling, and return analysis to support disciplined decision-making.
  • As Senior Corporate Development Manager, you will own the end-to-end corporate development agenda - across acquisitions, strategic partnerships and emerging data monetization opportunities.

Requirements

  • 7+ years in corporate development, strategy, investment banking, management consulting, private equity, and/or venture capital, with hands-on ownership of M&A and partnership transactions.
  • Demonstrated track record leading end-to-end M&A processes: sourcing, diligence, valuation, structuring, negotiation, and post-close integration.

Nice to have

  • Experience in high-growth tech, ideally fintech, fraud prevention, identity, payments, e-commerce, or AI/ML.
  • Advanced financial modeling and valuation skills, with experience partnering across Finance and Legal on capital allocation decisions.
  • Strong negotiation skills, with the ability to navigate high-pressure deal cycles while maintaining founder-friendly relationships.
  • Bachelor's degree required
  • MBA or advanced degree preferred.

Skills

  • Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 )
  • Fortune's Best Workplaces in NYC (2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 )
  • Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 )
  • Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards ( 2024 )
  • when AI does its job, humans can do theirs better.

Compensation

  • $190,000- $234,000 annually + variable bonus + equity + benefits
  • The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, and skill level.
  • Competitive salary

Benefits

  • Comprehensive and generous health insurance, including vision and dental coverage
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
  • Generous PTO policy

Company info

  • Commerce is evolving faster than the systems built to support it. Agentic AI is redrawing how people buy. Customer expectations have a new ceiling. And bad actors are evolving alongside every advancement.
  • Forter was built to meet this moment - and stay ahead of it.
  • We are a human-first, AI-built company. Our technology analyzes patterns across a network of over 2 billion shoppers, delivering identity intelligence across the entire commerce journey - from sign-up to checkout to returns - that protects revenue and unlocks great customer experiences simultaneously. With Forter, businesses know who to trust, whether it's humans or the agents shopping for them. The result: zero friction for the customers who matter. No revenue left behind.
  • The world's most trusted brands - Nordstrom, Instacart, Priceline, Adobe, ASOS, and eBay among them - rely on Forter to get this right. Since 2013, we've raised $525M from investors including Tiger Global, Bessemer, Sequoia Capital, and Salesforce Ventures, and today we power commerce decisions for nearly 1 million businesses globally. We're more than fraud, payments and orchestration - we make trust a competitive advantage.
  • Commerce is evolving faster than the systems built to support it.
  • Agentic AI is redrawing how people buy.
  • Customer expectations have a new ceiling.
  • And bad actors are evolving alongside every advancement.
  • We are a human-first, AI-built company.
  • Our technology analyzes patterns across a network of over 2 billion shoppers, delivering identity intelligence across the entire commerce journey - from sign-up to checkout to returns - that protects revenue and unlocks great customer experiences simultaneously.
  • With Forter, businesses know who to trust, whether it's humans or the agents shopping for them.
  • The result: zero friction for the customers who matter.
  • No revenue left behind.
  • The world's most trusted brands - Nordstrom, Instacart, Priceline, Adobe, ASOS, and eBay among them - rely on Forter to get this right.
  • Since 2013, we've raised $525M from investors including Tiger Global, Bessemer, Sequoia Capital, and Salesforce Ventures, and today we power commerce decisions for nearly 1 million businesses globally.
  • We're more than fraud, payments and orchestration - we make trust a competitive advantage.
  • Trust is backed by data - Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including:
  • Life as a Forterian:
  • Forterians are, genuinely, some of the best people you'll work with.
  • Smart, curious, and deeply good humans who care about the work and each other.
  • That's not an accident - it's something we've been intentional about since day one, and it's the thing people mention most when they talk about why they stay.
  • When you're surrounded by people like this, doing work that actually matters, it changes what a job can feel like.
  • Forter was built on a simple but powerful conviction: when AI does its job, humans can do theirs better.
  • That philosophy shapes our products and shapes how we work.
  • AI is core to our workflows - not as a shortcut, but as a force multiplier that gives Forterians the space to focus their energy where human judgment is irreplaceable.
  • We're a global team of 500+ people, with regional headquarters in New York, Tel Aviv, London, and Singapore, and employee presence across the US, Canada, Germany, France, Japan, China, and Australia.
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