Rover.com is hiring a
Director

Summary

The job is for a Director of Corporate Development at Rover, responsible for exploring, designing, negotiating, and executing strategic partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions. The ideal candidate should have 5+ years of experience in business development or M&A areas.

Requirements

• Development and articulation of strategic value of potential transactions
• Financial modeling and sensitivity analysis of target financial forecasts
• Ability to identify, articulate, and test key financial and strategic assumptions/logic streams regarding potential acquisition targets
• Project and stakeholder management throughout deal life cycle i.e. identification, financial evaluation, due diligence, negotiation, integration, and retrospective analysis
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to build trusted internal and external relationships
• Ability to develop an understanding of individual companies as well as their place within an industry ecosystem
• College degree or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Work with the VP of Corporate Development and Strategy and other key internal stakeholders to evaluate, negotiate, and execute acquisitions and strategic partnerships
• Develop investment theses and strategic rationale for potential acquisitions
• Build target financial models including forecast scenarios, synergies, and integration costs
• Effectively apply operating conditions of the Rover marketplace business to inform deal evaluation
• Project manage the creation of integration plans and success criteria for deals
• Drive evaluation of completed transactions against success criteria
• Build and/or refine prioritized list of external assets that can accelerate Rover’s marketplace businesses
• Monitoring the pet industry ecosystem including existing and new players
• Establishing a point of contact and relationships with influencers and decision-makers at relevant companies

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in the technology sector or pet sector
• Understanding of key legal and regulatory considerations related to M&A and Rover’s core business

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 401k
• Flexible PTO
• Competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Bring your dog to work (and unlimited puppy time)
• Doggy benefits, including $1000 toward adopting your first dog
• Stocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treats (for humans and dogs) and free catered lunches semi-monthly
• Regular team activities performed in-person and virtually