The Corporate Development Director will define corporate strategy, identify and evaluate acquisitions and partnerships, and lead M&A execution at Outreach.
About Outreach
Outreach, founded in 2014, is the only complete agentic AI platform for revenue teams. Outreach infuses agentic AI, conversation intelligence, and assistive AI to power hundreds of use cases across revenue motions. From new logo prospecting to expansions, deal acceleration, driving retention, and forecasting, Outreach AI automates workflows and frees sellers to focus on more strategic conversations and actions. Revenue leaders benefit from connected account visibility, performance insights, and higher forecasting accuracy across every GTM team. World leading enterprise organizations use Outreach to power their revenue teams, including Databricks, SAP, Siemens, and Verizon to name a few.
About the Team
The Corporate Development Director plays a critical role in shaping Outreach’s long-term growth strategy through strategic investments, partnerships, and acquisition opportunities. Reporting directly to the CFO, this individual contributor role operates at the intersection of Finance, Product, Engineering, GTM, and Executive Leadership to evaluate opportunities that accelerate innovation, strengthen market leadership, and support scalable growth.
The Role
The strategic, analytical, and execution-oriented Corporate Development Director will lead the evaluation and execution on potential acquisitions and strategic investment initiatives. This role will work closely with our product organization to create a strategy for build, buy, or partner decisions. They will drive the identification, evaluation, negotiation and integration of acquisitions and partnerships that accelerate company growth and expand our market leadership.
Reporting to the CFO, this leader will play a critical role in shaping corporate strategy, evaluating new markets, and executing complex transactions from sourcing through post-close integration.
Location: Remote (PST hours required)
Your Daily Adventures Will Include
- Define and develop Outreach’s corporate development strategy aligned with long-term growth objectives
- Identify acquisition, investment, and partnership opportunities that expand product capabilities, market presence, and technical differentiation
- Conduct market landscape analysis to inform build vs buy decisions
- Lead end-to-end M&A execution including target sourcing, valuation modeling, diligence coordination, negotiation, and deal structuring
- Build detailed financial models and present investment recommendations to executive leaders and BoD
- Drive post-merger integration planning and execution
- Ensure cultural alignment and operational continuity
- Establish synergy targets and track performance post-close
Our Vision of You
9+ years of experience in corporate development, investment banking, private equity or strategic finance
Proven track record leading complex M&A transactions from sourcing through integration
Strong financial modeling and valuation expertise
Ability to operate strategically while driving tactical execution
Experience presenting to executive teams and BoDs
Data driven and highly analytical
High integrity and discretion-minded
Experience in high-growth or technology-driven environments preferred
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Why You’ll Love It Here
• Flexible time off
• 401k to help you save for the future
• Generous medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees and their dependents
• A parental leave program that includes options for a paid night nurse, and a gradual return to work
• Infertility/ assisted reproductive services benefit
• Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
• Snacks and beverages in the Office, along with fun events to celebrate
• Diversity and inclusion programs that promote employee resource groups like Outreach Women's Network, Latinx community, Outreach Black Connection, AAPI community, Pride/LGBTQIA+, Gender+, Disability Community, and Veterans/Military
Outreach is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
Our success is reliant on building teams that include people from different backgrounds and experiences who can elevate assumptions and ideas with fresh perspectives. We're dedicated to hiring the whole human, not just a resume. To that end, we look for a diverse pool of applicants-including those from historically marginalized groups. We would like to invite you to apply even if you don't think you meet all of the requirements listed below. We don't want a few lines in a job description to get between us and the opportunity to meet you.
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