Corporate Development Associate

Artlist is where the creative arts meet technology. If there’s one thing we all have in common, it’s a love of music and film, which is why we build innovative products to help content creators make amazing videos. 

We do this by giving them the best music, footage, sound effects, and editing software around. We also revolutionized the industry with a radical new music licensing model that has since become the global standard. 

Artlist now is the go-to platform for over 16M content creators across more than 160 countries. Our users range from beginner social creators to megabrands like Apple, Google, Nike, Coca-Cola, and Netflix.

Our products:

• Artlist: a platform for the highest-quality, royalty-free music, SFX, footage, and video templates
• Motion Array: a leading video template platform that also offers software plugins, and over 1 million royalty-free songs, videos, sound effects, photos, and graphics
• FXhome: a cutting-edge developer of video, VFX, and image editing software

Artlist is looking for a Corporate Development Associate to plan and implement strategic initiatives across the organization. In this role you will work cross-functionally to identify, define, support, and execute on the company’s organic and in-organic growth activities. The Corporate Development Associate will play a key role across multiple domains, including business development, strategic partnerships, the entire M&A lifecycle, market intelligence, other internal and external growth initiatives.  

What you’ll be doing:

• Help identify, develop and support Artlist’s growth strategies in existing markets and new verticals.
• Support business development and partnership initiatives.
• Ongoing strategic support of different key business stakeholders in areas such as pricing, go-to-market etc.
• Perform in-depth competitive analysis and market intelligence research.
• Identify strategic initiatives and develop a deep understanding of different domains and growth opportunities. 
• Support the entire M&A deal flow process from generation through screening and to strategic engagements with potential targets.
• Perform M&A deal analysis including financial and business analysis, deal rationale, synergy and risk mapping, market analysis and target valuation and deal terms through deal execution and PMI support. 
• Prepare presentations on strategic objectives and initiatives for Artlist’s senior leadership and board.

• +2 years of work experience in business development, partnerships management or financial consulting firm / investment banking / venture capital / private equity / corporate strategy.
• Deep financial modeling experience and proven business acumen.
• Proven experience in merger and acquisition processes, or other strategic transaction and business development execution experience. 
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while overseeing senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams in a high paced environment.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Analytical problem solver who can synthesize complex issues and distill tangible insights. 
• Team player, creative thinker and independent self starter.
• BA in a relevant field from a top-tier university, MBA or advanced degree preferred.