Corporate Development Lead at Paxos

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About Paxos</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Today’s financial infrastructure is archaic, expensive, inefficient and risky — supporting a system that leaves out more people than it lets in. So we’re rebuilding it.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re on a mission to open the world’s financial system to everyone by enabling the instant movement of any asset, any time, in a trustworthy way. For over a decade, we’ve built blockchain infrastructure that tokenizes, custodies, trades and settles assets for the world’s leading financial institutions, like Mastercard, Visa, Robinhood, and PayPal.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About the role</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are looking for a Corporate Development professional to drive Paxos’s inorganic growth strategy - identifying, structuring, and executing acquisitions and owning the process management for our fundraising efforts as we scale. Reporting to the CFO, you will own the full M&amp;A lifecycle. In addition, you will support the CEO and CFO on the end-to-end fundraise processes, working closely with the executive team to tell the Paxos story to the right capital partners at the right time.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This is a role that requires extreme ownership. You will be expected to bring a point of view on where the market is going, develop investment theses working with the executive and product leadership, source independently, move deals forward to execution with conviction, and work cross functionally to ensure successful outcomes post close. Your job is to make sure we’re always looking around corners and that the right opportunities don’t pass us by.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You will:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own the M&amp;A process end-to-end:</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Develop Investment and M&amp;A theses by researching and monitoring emerging trends and disruptive companies and deeply understanding Paxos product strategy and overall priorities</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Source, evaluate, and execute acquisitions - lead cross-functional diligence, drive structuring, negotiation, and close</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build and maintain a live pipeline of targets aligned to Paxos’s strategic priorities across infrastructure, distribution, and regulated capabilities</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Conduct analysis of operating performance, lead market diligence, and prepare investment memos. Develop rigorous financial models and valuation frameworks</p></li></ul></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own fundraising process &amp; investor relations:</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lead end-to-end equity fundraise processes - drive workstreams, prepare investor materials, build and manage data rooms, coordinate diligence, and co