Corporate Development Associate, Strategy and Scouting

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience working on agreements.
• 2 years of experience conducting industry research and developing insights on present and future trends.
• 2 years of experience with due diligence documentation and legal frameworks.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in management consulting, venture capital, strategy and operations, private equity , corporate development, or investment banking in the technology industry.
• Experience sharing cross-functional perspectives with internal stakeholders and working with founders and investors.
• Familiarity with Google’s business priorities, especially in consumer and enterprise AI or technology infrastructure (e.g., data center, energy infrastructure, silicon, etc.).
• Ability to comfortably navigate technical, fast-evolving, and ambiguous emerging technology areas.
• Excellent quantitative/qualitative skills, and ability to be a strategic and analytical thinker.
• Ability to be results driven with attention to detail. Exceptional communications skills, business judgment, and work ethic.

About the job

As a member of the Corporate Development team, you work collaboratively across functions (including Product, Legal, Finance and People Operations) to identify, evaluate, and negotiate both acquisition and strategic investment opportunities. You understand the industry landscape and regional nuances, and provide the management team with the needed insight to drive intelligent, sound decision-making. With an air of humility, you bring strong quantitative skills, strategic thinking and sound business judgment, along with the ability to think about what is -- and what could be.

As a Corporate Development Associate within the Strategy and Scouting team, you will be responsible for helping develop and translate Google’s strategy into the most compelling inorganic opportunities - across acquisitions, strategic investments and other novel agreement structures. You will have a constant pulse on ecosystem trends, investment themes and the startup landscape - particularly in AI, infrastructure and the consumer ecosystem. You will proactively raise the highest-impact companies and technologies to the most executive Google leaders. You will also serve as a strategic advisor - helping shape Google’s direction through high-conviction inorganic ideas that accelerate our efforts.

The Corporate Development team drives Google's worldwide growth by identifying exciting acquisition and strategic investment opportunities across existing and future markets – and then working to make them happen. Consisting of experienced merger-and-acquisition leaders, investment professionals, scouting and strategy specialists, and integration experts, we're dedicated to identifying the business opportunities of tomorrow. We drive team decisions, lead negotiations, and help run post-acquisition integration and performance evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Be a provocative thought leader in driving inorganic strategy working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Legal, Finance teams, etc. and present opportunities to Executive Leadership.
• Build strong relationships externally across startups, venture funds/technical industry ecosystems and internally with Google business and product leaders.
• Ideate on acquisitions and strategic investments opportunities by translating ecosystem findings into actionable insights and agreement recommendations.
• Collaborate on transaction execution including opportunity framing/thesis building, diligence, financial analysis, agreement structuring and executive reviews to help drive agreement decisions.
• Build engaged landscapes. Have a pulse on internal product development efforts across consumer and enterprise AI, technology infrastructure, deep-tech and adjacent industries.