Corporate Development Lead

Join Paxos, a leading blockchain infrastructure platform, as a Corporate Development Lead. In this role, you will drive the company's inorganic growth strategy, manage the full M&A lifecycle, and support fundraising efforts. You will work closely with the executive team and have a significant impact on the company's growth and success.

Missions

• Own the M&A process end-to-end, including sourcing, evaluating, and executing acquisitions.
• Lead the end-to-end equity fundraise processes, managing workstreams, preparing investor materials, and coordinating diligence.
• Build and maintain a live pipeline of targets aligned to Paxos’s strategic priorities across infrastructure, distribution, and regulated capabilities.

Profil recherché

- You help bring focus and structure to ambiguous situations to chart a clear path forward

- Proven ability to own a fundraising process end-to-end - managing workstreams, materials, and investor relationships with minimal oversight

- You default to AI and take pride in your work. You are building agents, vibe-coding apps, and more

- Comfort operating as an IC in a fast-moving environment; you don’t need a team to be effective, and you know how to pull in the right internal stakeholders at the right moment

- You enjoy building relationships

- You likely have 7+ years of work experience

- Demonstrated track record of executing M&A or investment transactions - you have closed deals, not just supported them

- Familiarity with the blockchain infrastructure, digital asset, or fintech space is a plus

- You might come from investing (Banking, PE, VC) or a Corp Dev team at a fast-growing (fin)tech company

- Excellent communication skills - you can present a nuanced deal thesis to a CFO and explain a term sheet to an engineer

- Strong financial modeling and valuation skills