Corporate Development & Ventures Associate

Posted:
7/15/2024, 5:24:36 AM

Location(s):
New York, United States ⋅ New York, New York, United States

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Finance & Banking

Workplace Type:
On-site

LiveRamp is the data collaboration platform of choice for the world’s most innovative companies. A groundbreaking leader in consumer privacy, data ethics, and foundational identity, LiveRamp is setting the new standard for building a connected customer view with unmatched clarity and context while protecting precious brand and consumer trust. LiveRamp offers complete flexibility to collaborate wherever data lives to support the widest range of data collaboration use cases—within organizations, between brands, and across its premier global network of top-quality partners.

Hundreds of global innovators, from iconic consumer brands and tech giants to banks, retailers, and healthcare leaders turn to LiveRamp to build enduring brand and business value by deepening customer engagement and loyalty, activating new partnerships, and maximizing the value of their first-party data while staying on the forefront of rapidly evolving compliance and privacy requirements.


The Corporate Development & Ventures team’s mandate is to make smart, strategic investments that create long-term enterprise value for LiveRamp through effective capital deployment. We are deal-makers, storytellers and conductors. As part of our team, you will help us drive acquisitions, partnerships, investments and corporate strategy for LiveRamp. Let us know if and why you’re interested. We’d love to talk to you!

You will:

  • Tell powerful stories – building super crisp and clear analyses of businesses, industry landscapes, market trends, and competitor moves.

  • Rock financial models – creating sophisticated excel models to help us make the correct decisions.

  • Be a team player – work with sales, product, engineering, legal, HR, and finance teams on all the critical things that are required to get a deal done.

  • Ask the next question – as that’s where you figure out what makes the culture tick, the product work, the clients buy (or stay churn) and the business succeed or fail.

  • Drive the trains – making sure that we move swiftly, accurately, and well-choreographed. 

Key Responsibilities: 

  • Help us constantly focus and deliver on our corporate strategy and our long-term strategic initiatives.

  • Support our M&A activities including conducting due diligence, and assembling business cases, coordinating across departments. 

  • Manage new and existing VC investments, supporting portfolio companies and driving partnership value creation.

  • Develop business plans for internal initiatives including scenario planning, strategic benefits, P&L analysis, timelines, and business risks. 

  • Evaluate emerging growth opportunities in our adjacencies.

  • Drive deals from inception to close, performing market analysis, supporting negotiations, and coordinating across all departments

  • Support integration plan to ensure that strategic partnerships, investments, and acquisitions are assimilated.

Qualifications: 

  • Bachelor's degree with a record of academic success.

  • 2 to 4 years of experience in investment banking, management consulting, or corporate development.

  • Interest in the data collaboration and advertising technology ecosystems, emerging trends, key players, and market dynamics.

  • Strong financial modeling, valuations, market research, and presentation development skills.

  • Excellent organizational, communication, and peer management skills.

  • Intellectual curiosity, desire to learn, and passion for building a best-of-class product.

Benefits:

  • People: Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.

  • Fun: We host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues. 

  • Work/Life Harmony: Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.

  • Whole Health Package: Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, long term care, accident and critical illness insurance, pre-tax accounts (health, dependent and commuter), and a family forming benefit through Carrot. Plus Milk Stork, backup child and elder care, and discount on pet insurance, mental health support (via Talkspace)

  • FlexPerks reimbursement program to provide flexibility and choice ($375/quarter) for fitness, emotional, financial, family, travel and entertainment, convenience and security expenses. (U.S. LiveRampers)

  • Savings: Our 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—helps you plan ahead.  Also Employee Stock Purchase Plan - 15% discount off purchase price of LiveRamp stock (U.S. LiveRampers)

  • RampRemote: A comprehensive office equipment and ergonomics program—we prove you with equipment and tools to be your most productive self, no matter where you're located

  • Savings: Our 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—helps you plan ahead.  Also Employee Stock Purchase Plan - 15% discount off purchase price of LiveRamp stock (U.S. LiveRampers)

  • RampRemote: A comprehensive office equipment and ergonomics program—we prove you with equipment and tools to be your most productive self, no matter where you're located

  • Location: work in the heart of New York City

For SF and NY postings:

The approximate annual base compensation range is $110,000 to $175,000. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by a number of factors including the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, geography, as well as internal equity among our team. 

More about us:

LiveRamp’s mission is to connect data in ways that matter, and doing so starts with our people. We know that inspired teams enlist people from a blend of backgrounds and experiences. And we know that individuals do their best when they not only bring their full selves to work but feel like they truly belong. Connecting LiveRampers to new ideas and one another is one of our guiding principles—one that informs how we hire, train, and grow our global team across nine countries and four continents. Click here to learn more about Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DIB) at LiveRamp.