VP Corporate Development and Strategy

Who We Are:
Hi! We're Carbyne and we are on a mission to help emergency call centers save lives every day. As the leader in emergency collaboration technologies, we're building a platform that brings game-changing capabilities to people in crisis, such as live video, instant chat, and location tracking. Our platform unifies the flow of life-saving information to emergency call centers, so they can handle emergencies faster than ever, and get to the right people, in the right place, at the right time. We currently provide services to over 400 million people in over eight countries worldwide, and partner with Google, Cisco, Amazon, and Microsoft to deliver life-saving technologies. Want to join our mission-driven team? Read on.
Headquarters: New York City, New York
Current Headcount: 180 People and counting....
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About the role:
Carbyne is on the search for a driven Head of Corporate Development and Strategy to identify and execute growth opportunities. This is a high-impact, highly visible role in which you'll work closely with our CEO and other members of the executive team to build a strategy for corporate development, identify and track transaction opportunities, execute deal processes from start to finish, and manage the post-transaction process.
In this role, you will drive M&A activities and investments, evaluate market forecasts and long-term trends, collect competitive intelligence, drive cross-functional business processes, and maintain business model innovation. You will work to synchronize strategies with corporate center plans, and translate long-term plans into short-term projects.
Here is what you will be working on:

• Build and execute a strategy for corporate development by analyzing our current state, assessing opportunities for improvement, and innovating to ensure predictable, repeatable, and scalable results that attract and delight customers, drive revenue growth, and increase profitability.
• Lead acquisitions and investments in new businesses, as well as execute divestments and divestiture.
• Develop a pipeline of corporate development opportunities: tracking, valuing, negotiating, executing, and following through to internal integration.
• Collaborate with the CEO, the executive leadership team, and key internal stakeholders to align to the company's strategic vision, expand the product's global capabilities, and drive steadfast performance.
• Act as a consultant for internal cross-functional teams through integration processes, collaborating with Product, Engineering, Finance, People, Legal, and other functions that touch these teams.
• Analyze market dynamics , market share changes, product line performance, and competitive intelligence.
• Identify key capital projects, joint ventures, potential M&A targets, and other strategic partnership opportunities, as well as strategic risks.
• Communicate strategy effectively throughout the company
• Ensure suitable metrics are in place to measure performance and progress.
• Monitor execution of business initiatives.

Requirements

• Experience in a Corporate Development Segment of the business for a growing organization, with a broad understanding of all corporate development functions and how they work together to maximize growth
• Experience in effective communication on strategic objectives and action plans to multiple teams across a variety of functions.
• Experience with working with a Tech/Saas industry.
• Stong leadership experience and ability to work with colleagues across multiple disciplines and in geographically dispersed locations.
• Proven success in evaluating, executing, and integrating acquisitions.
• The ability to set a vision, execute on strategy, and roll up your sleeves and get into the details when necessary.

What else we are looking for:
Carbyne's responsibility is great, and so are our people. People at Carbyne choose us because they see how much each person matters, contributes, and counts.
We're a mission-driven team with a strong set of values. We take them pretty seriously here at Carbyne, and want to make sure that anyone who joins our team takes them seriously, too. If you grabbed coffee with any of our team members, you would see that we:

• Excellence - Thrive to create great things. Mistakes create innovation, collaboration, and authenticity - people can be themselves - ask any questions, and see mistakes as opportunities to learn, to get better.
• Responsiveness - Adaptive to new situations, new people, clients' expectations, solving problems fast and together.
• Simplicity - Listening, thinking, smart solutions, tools that work for you and for our customers, Services that warm the heart, Delivery that makes the complex simple.
• Warmth - To collaborate with our internal teams and partner with our clients, we must show empathy, warmth, and mutual respect. It's a big part of who we are at Carbyne.
• Reliability - Everyone takes responsibility and is very proactive.
• Tech forward, to keep people first - Our consistent, unyielding drive to iterate and improve is linked to our desire to manifest real change for the people who use our tools every day.

Benefits
As a member of the Carbyne team, you can expect:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k, matching up to 4% of your salary
• 13 weeks of full payment for primary leave
• Unlimited vacation days
• Competitive options plan
• Reimbursement for commuter expenses (if you work in the office)
• Health and Wellness Benefits

Our Promise
Carbyne believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination due to race, ancestry, place of origin, color, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offenses, or any other basis protected by applicable law. We also strive for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibit harassment of any kind.
Note: We're unable to sponsor employment visas at this time.