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Job Description
LinkedIn’s Corporate Development team partners closely with cross-functional leaders to drive corporate and strategic initiatives, analyze market activity and competitive dynamics, and source, evaluate and execute and integrate M&A and strategic partnership opportunities. We seek exceptional candidates who are highly motivated, have a track record of academic and professional success, are driven to succeed and have enthusiasm and passion for LinkedIn’s professional suite of products.
The responsibilities of the Associate include delivering landscape insights, M&A analyses, and scenario evaluations to inform LinkedIn’s most-important business decisions. The right candidate has proven skills in financial modeling and strategic assessment/diligence, along with the curiosity and critical thinking needed to identify important factors that may never fit on a spreadsheet. In addition, the Associate will work with key cross-functional partners – Product, Engineering, HR, Finance to name a few – and must be comfortable working with senior stakeholders.
This role is an excellent opportunity to join a small team that influences long-term company-wide investment initiatives that impact hundreds of millions of professionals worldwide.
Most of our team works from San Francisco, CA, but we are open to this new team member working from any of our US offices or remote.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver insightful analyses of market opportunities & drive M&A valuation and strategic analyses of opportunities for LinkedIn
- Develop a deep understanding of the competitive landscape and assist in building relationships with key players in the industry (e.g. VCs, companies, founders, etc.)
- Support acquisitions – including valuation modeling, due diligence, deal negotiations and integration for M&A. This includes coordinating a multitude of internal teams in the evaluation of technical employees, technology solutions and other product diligence
- Manage post-acquisition integration by ensuring that cross-functional teams are all executing on their respective M&A integration plans
- Assist the team in building world-class best practices and infrastructure to keep us running smoothly
- Build effective relationships with colleagues from across the organization
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 2+ years of post-undergrad work experience that includes experience in investment banking, private equity firm, strategy consulting, or corporate development, or related experience
- Demonstrated ability and experience with building financial models (e.g. DCFs, M&A valuation, etc.)
- BA/BS degree in finance, accounting, economics, or related
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated passion for technology through work experience or non-work activities
- Experience working with large data sets and using statistical analyses; SQL experience a plus
- Ability to formulate insights around complex business problems and aptitude for creating structured quantitative and qualitative analyses
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills & executive presence: able to articulately present and debate recommendations with senior leadership
- Strong personal initiative, excellent judgment and sense of humor
- Desire to succeed in a demanding, innovative, and entrepreneurial environment: a highly proactive self-starter
- High aptitude to learn quickly, assimilate to new teams and projects, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and work well under pressure with appropriate attention to detail
Additional Information
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LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here:
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LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn’s legal duty to furnish information.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
This document provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://lnkd.in/GlobalDataPrivacyNotice
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