Manager, Corporate Development and Strategy

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Appodeal</strong> is a dynamic US-based product company with a truly global presence.</p> <p>We have offices in <strong>Warsaw, Barcelona and Parkland (FL), </strong>along with remote team members located around the world.</p> <p>Our company thrives on diversity, collaboration, and innovation, making us a leader in the mobile app monetization space.</p> <p><strong>Why Appodeal?</strong></p> <p>At Appodeal, we’re more than just a company—we’re a team united by a common mission: <strong>Help people discover and grow their talents through products that enable successful mobile app businesses!</strong></p> <p>We take pride in our cutting-edge product and our internationally dispersed team of talented professionals.</p> <p>Here’s what we value, and what we hope you do too:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Continuous Learning and Growth:</strong> We are passionate about learning, growing personally, and building rewarding careers.</li> <li><strong>Making an Impact:</strong> We are committed to building a history-defining company that leaves a lasting impact on the mobile app industry.</li> <li><strong>Solving Exciting Challenges:</strong> We tackle complex problems every day, supported by a team of world-class professionals and mentors.</li> <li><strong>Enjoying the Journey:</strong> We believe in having fun while working toward our goals.</li> </ul></div><h3><strong>Role summary</strong></h3> <p>Appodeal is looking for a hands-on corporate development professional to help identify, evaluate and execute acquisitions, investments and strategic partnerships across mobile apps and advertising technology. The role combines rigorous transaction execution with commercial judgment: building the investment case, challenging assumptions, coordinating diligence and turning analysis into a clear recommendation for the executive team and Board.</p> <p>This is an execution role, not a presentation-only strategy position. The successful candidate will work directly with the CFO and business leaders from initial market mapping through signing, closing and value delivery.</p> <p>Much of the first pass in deal work — market mapping, company research, comparable sets, a first read of diligence documents — is increasingly done with AI tools. This role is expected to use them, and to know where their output cannot be trusted.</p> <h3><strong>Core responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Build and maintain a focused pipeline of acquisition, investment and partnership opportunities aligned with company and business-unit priorities.</li> <li>Develop financial models, valuation analyses, returns cases and downside scenarios; reconcile strategic logic with the economics of each opportunity.</li> <li>Lead early-stage target assessment, including market attractiveness, product fit, competitive position, customer concentration, technology differentiation and management-team quality.</li> <li>Prepare concise decision materials for the executive team and Board, with a clear recommendation, key assumptions, risks, sensitivities and unresolved questions.</li> <li>Coordinate cross-functional due diligence across finance, tax, legal, product, technology, data, privacy, commercial and people workstreams; maintain accountability for issues and deadlines.</li> <li>Support transaction structuring and negotiation of indications of interest, letters of intent, purchase agreements, earn-outs, retention arrangements and other key terms alongside internal and external advisers.</li> <li>Own transaction process management, including data-room readiness, workplans, valuation updates, approvals and signing and closing deliverables.</li> <li>Translate the deal thesis into a measurable integration and value-delivery plan, with named owners, milestones, financial outcomes and post-close tracking.</li> <li>Produce targeted market and competitor analysis to support build, buy or partner decisions and broader capital-allocation priorities.</li> <li>Develop repeatable corporate development tools, templates and governance so that decisions are faster, evidence-based and auditable.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>What success looks like</strong></h3> <ul> <li>A qualified opportunity pipeline tied to explicit strategic priorities rather than opportunistic deal flow.</li> <li>Decision-ready investment cases that expose the real value drivers and risks instead of relying on headline revenue multiples.</li> <li>Disciplined, well-run diligence processes with no material issue discovered late because ownership or scope was unclear.</li> <li>Transactions move through defined governance gates with clear accountability, informed challenge and timely decisions.</li> <li>Post-close performance is measured against the approved deal case, with corrective action when value delivery slips.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Experience and capabilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>5–8 years of relevant experience, including at least two years in investment banking, private equity, growth equity, transaction advisory or an established corporate development team, and meaningful in-house corporate development experience.</li> <li>Direct involvement in at least two completed M&amp;A transactions, from initial analysis through diligence, documentation and closing; direct ownership of major workstreams is expected.</li> <li>Advanced financial modelling and valuation skills, including operating models, DCF, comparable-company and precedent-transaction analysis, acquisition financing, purchase-price mechanics and returns analysis.</li> <li>Strong commercial judgment and the ability to assess product, technology and go-to-market questions rather than treating a deal as a purely financial exercise.</li> <li>Ability to reduce complex or incomplete information to a concise, defensible recommendation for senior decision-makers.</li> <li>High standards for accuracy, pace and follow-through, with the confidence to challenge assumptions and escalate material issues early.</li> <li>Demonstrated AI experience: practical hands-on use in modelling, research or diligence, with the ability to describe the workflows improved, the results delivered, and how the output was validated.</li> <li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively across functions, geographies and levels of seniority.</li> <li>Experience in software, mobile apps, advertising technology, gaming or adjacent digital markets is strongly preferred.</li> <li>Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, accounting, mathematics, engineering or another directly relevant quantitative discipline, with a strong academic record.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Working style</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Hands-on: willing to build the model, interrogate the data and drive the process personally.</li> <li>Independent: forms a view from evidence and states it clearly, including when the answer is to walk away.</li> <li>Commercial: understands how technology, customers, pricing, distribution and execution determine value.</li> <li>Structured: converts ambiguity into explicit questions, owners, decision points and measurable outcomes.</li> <li>Low ego: works through influence and brings in the right experts without losing ownership of the result.</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p>With an outstanding product and a mission that excites and inspires, Appodeal offers a unique opportunity to make an impact while being part of an amazing team.</p> <p><strong>Join us</strong> and help shape the future of mobile app success!</p></div>