Head of Corporate Development
Leads mergers, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships for a crypto-payments startup, evaluating fintech infrastructure and API integrations to expand capabilities and distribution.
- Compensation
- $200K–$250K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- C level
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 7+ years in corporate development, investment banking or strategy, with transactions you led as the principal.
- A strong understanding of payments and how money moves, and comfort with stablecoins and digital assets.
- Strong financial modeling and valuation skills.
- A network across fintech founders, bankers and investors.
- Clear, concise writing that turns a complex deal into a decision.
Nice to have
- Experience integrating an acquired company.
- Experience using AI tools to speed up sourcing and diligence.
Full description
About Mesh
At Mesh, our mission is to enable consumers to pay and be paid with any asset. 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. Backed by leading investors like SBI, Money Forward, Paradigm, Dragonfly, Galaxy, and PayPal Ventures, we are building the infrastructure for the next era of the global economy. Join us!
Overview
Mesh is hiring a dedicated Corporate Development leader to find, evaluate and close the acquisitions and strategic partnerships that expand how Mesh moves money. Your first priority is an acquisition within the payments space that grows our volume, revenue and customer base.
You will own deals from thesis to close and integration, working directly with the CFO, CEO and leaders across Finance, Product, Engineering and Sales.
What You'll Do
- Build and run a pipeline of acquisition and partnership opportunities across payments and digital assets.
- Develop market feasibility studies and business cases that shape where and how Mesh expands.
- Lead transactions end to end: sourcing, valuation, negotiation, signing and close.
- Lead due diligence in partnership with Finance and other teams.
- Drive post-acquisition integration, including synergies, customer migration and team retention.
- Prepare investment cases for the CFO, CEO and board, and manage external advisors.
- Track market consolidation and turn it into a point of view on where Mesh should play.
Who You Are
- 7+ years in corporate development, investment banking or strategy, with transactions you led as the principal.
- A strong understanding of payments and how money moves, and comfort with stablecoins and digital assets.
- Strong financial modeling and valuation skills.
- A network across fintech founders, bankers and investors.
- Clear, concise writing that turns a complex deal into a decision.
Nice to have
- Experience integrating an acquired company.
- Experience using AI tools to speed up sourcing and diligence.
What success looks like
- 90 days: a market map and prioritized pipeline, with clear build, partner or buy recommendations.
- 6 months: at least one transaction at LOI or signed.
- 12 months: a transaction closed and integrated.