WHAT YOU’LL DO:

📍Conduct research and summarize findings to enable the team to develop unique perspectives on key categories and companies in the crypto ecosystem, and curate related research and market intelligence, identifying critical shifts and evolving trends and communicate their implications to be at the forefront of new developments. 📍Engage with the broader organization (product, engineering, marketing, etc.) to further qualify opportunities and refine our areas of strategic interest. 📍Develop perspectives on key competitors, relative strengths and weaknesses, and implications for our business. 📍Support the execution of acquisitions by helping the team to define our needs, develop a market landscape with target companies, engage prospects, develop business cases, engage in due diligence and deal execution and support integration in partnership with finance, accounting, tax, legal, compliance, business, product, engineering, people and other departments at Ripple. 📍Establish strong relationships externally with the crypto and blockchain community of entrepreneurs and investors. 📍Track new opportunities and manage the pipeline. 📍Perform backtesting of investment performance for achievement against ingoing investment thesis. 📍Ad-hoc qualitative and quantitative analyses for strategic planning, investing and integration efforts. 📍Partner with Business Development to forge alliances that promote Ripple’s product and service offerings. 📍Take an opportunity from inception to completion, owning the process from sourcing to due diligence to execution.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

📍3+ years of experience in corporate development or related fields such as investment banking, management consulting ideally in the corporate finance practice or an area with substantial exposure to related topics, and/or venture capital 📍Experience executing deal workflows and post-deal integrations 📍Experience working on multiple deals at once through all phases 📍Experience working within teams with team leadership a plus 📍Strong experience developing financial modeling such as market data models, three-statement analysis and valuation 📍Intellectual rigor 📍Strong communication skills; verbal, written, and presentational 📍Comfort operating in white space where there is no playbook and proven ability to contribute to creative solutions and deal structures Strong understanding of blockchain technology and traditional financial services 📍High attention to detail 📍Proactive, energetic and collaborative