Vice President Corporate Development

Location Details: Kirkland or USA Remote

At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.

This position may be a hybrid or fully remote position, as decided by your manager. If designated as hybrid, you’ll divide your time between working remotely from your home and an office location, so you should live within commuting distance. If designated as remote, you’ll be working remotely from your home and may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or offsites. Your hiring manager can share more about this role’s hybrid or remote designation.

This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands.

Join our team

Reporting into GoDaddy’s Chief Strategy and Legal Officer, our Vice President of Corporate Development leads, mentors and develops our dynamic team of corporate development specialists and analysts, dedicated to driving growth and enhancing GoDaddy’s market position through strategic investments and acquisitions. This a pivotal role, helping shape our future growth via investments and acquisitions, bringing new and innovative capabilities, enhance existing ones and expanding our footprint and market opportunities. Our Corporate Development team partners closely with senior leaders across our business units and strategy team, to execute on strategic investments and acquisitions aligned with our long-term strategies.

You will lead, drive, and coordinate all aspects of inorganic growth, by identifying and developing a pipeline of investment and acquisition opportunities in partnership with the strategy team. You will also have accountability across all aspects of the deal process; including financial modeling, due diligence, negotiations and closing, as well as overseeing all aspects of post-merger integration activities, in partnership with our Strategic Initiatives team. You will continuously assess GoDaddy’s portfolio of companies and consider opportunities for optimization, through divestitures or other corporate actions. You will drive external and investment relationships and facilitate connections with our leadership team.

If you have a blend of hunger, intellectual curiosity, hunter-mentality, and creativity, with exceptional communication, project management, problem solving, negotiation, deal execution and quantitative skills, coupled with excellent business judgment, this would be an enticing opportunity.

What you’ll get to do...

• Lead and coach our Corporate Development function, by establishing a team which excels in developing, structuring, negotiating, and completing high-level acquisitions and strategic investments
• Cultivate robust strategic relationships with our executives and business unit leaders, to identify and accelerate strategic investment and acquisition opportunities
• Align closely with our strategy team, on investment and acquisition opportunities in line with our long-term strategic and operational goals
• Craft, establish and maintain a robust and repeatable process to sourcing, appraise and drive acquisition opportunities efficiently, from due diligence to closing
• Lead all aspects of, and ensure the financial success of projects, through meticulous case modeling and due diligence
• Conduct regular assessments of our portfolio, and ensure it is optimized through divestitures and other corporate actions
• Leverage and expand our network with venture capitalists, startups, investment banks, and other industry partners to identify potential targets
• Own and lead partner coordination, across our investment and acquisition activities

Your experience should include...

• Validated leadership experience, leading and developing a corporate development function within a technology or tech-enabled global organization
• 15+ years of extensive transaction experience within a large corporation, investment bank, private equity firm, and/or management consulting firm
• Comprehensive and significant experience across all facets of deal execution, including target identification, analysis, due diligence, negotiation, and post-deal integration, as well as ongoing portfolio analysis and optimization, including through divestitures
• Exceptional negotiation abilities, with a talent for creative problem-solving that enhances value for GoDaddy and our shareholders
• Strength in independently leading deals, with significant experience in sourcing, negotiating and closing complex transactions
• Demonstrated ability to run multiple projects concurrently, while aligning seamlessly with product, tech, corporate and related teams
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage partners at all levels
• Consistent track record in mentoring, coaching and continuous learning, across both direct reports and your own development

You might also have...

• Experience in multiple global organizations across investment banking, private equity and/or management consulting firms
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics or Computer Science
• Master’s degree in Business Administration

We’ve got your back...  We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy’s benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way. 

About us... GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us.

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.

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