Manager, Corporate Development
The Manager will have proven financial and strategic skills and a thorough understanding of the creator economy. They will develop investment theses, identify growth opportunities, and evaluate proposed transactions from a strategic and financial perspective. The Manager will evaluate businesses across a wide spectrum of media and be able to clearly articulate how these various elements interact. This role plays a key role in M&A diligence and deal flow and will interface with internal and external executives.
The ideal candidate for this role will have 4-7 years of combined experience in media as well as investment banking, strategic consulting, venture capital, or private equity and wants to make the jump to deal-making and strategy in the Media and Entertainment business.
Responsibilities:
- Evaluate, model, and lead due diligence on investment opportunities.
- Assess targets with an understanding of potential synergies and create complex models that reflect both opportunistic upside and risk.
- Perform ongoing research, detailed financial modeling, and analysis to inform investment decisions.
- Develop theses and draft white papers around the future of the media landscape and businesses that Jellysmack can expand into.
- Engage with internal and external stakeholders to manage the day-to-day execution of investment priorities.
- Manage M&A processes and systems to keep team and executives aware of the latest changes in ongoing deals
- Formulate and prepare presentations to share findings and recommendations for divisional and senior management critical to the decision-making process
- Conduct ad-hoc analyses at the request of senior executives
A little about you:
- 4-7 years of experience working with both media companies as well as investment banks, strategic consultancies, private equity firms, venture capital funds, and other corporate development roles
- Superb quantitative skills, advanced knowledge of Excel and Powerpoint, comfortable working with large amounts of data and financial documents
- Excellent problem-solving skills including project prioritization, critical thinking, and hypothesis development
- Ability to logically break down approaches and assumptions, hypothesis-driven and comfortable with ambiguity
- Experience in M&A
- Experience in entertainment and/or media preferred
- B.S / B.A. required
Our “Work from Jellywhere” philosophy:
Jellysmack believes in a flexible work environment in which anyone can work from anywhere. This is why we’ve implemented our flexible location philosophy, meaning you get the best of both worlds: you can choose to work from home and / or from our offices in Paris, New York, Los Angeles and Corti.
Nota bene: your residence must be in the country in which you are applying
Perks at Jellysmack:
- Early Summer release Fridays
- Paid volunteering: 1 day dedicated to supporting a cause of your choice
- Company sponsored wellness programs and events
- Competitive Healthcare coverage
- 401K match
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