Corporate & Business Development Manager
About The Position
PermitFlow is hiring a Corporate & Business Development Manager to build and lead its corporate development function. Working directly with the leadership team, this person will identify acquisition, strategic investment, and partnership opportunities that expand the company’s product, create new routes to market, and deepen its role in construction workflows. The role owns deals from initial outreach through diligence, valuation, negotiation, closing, and integration, and helps determine which partnerships best support company goals. The manager will assess technologies and partner platforms, develop business cases and financial models, coordinate cross-functional deal work, and communicate concise recommendations to executives and the board. The position also includes monitoring market and deal activity, building a network of founders and investors, and measuring post-close integration and partnership outcomes. PermitFlow is an applied AI company serving construction businesses with tools for permitting, licensing, inspections, and project closeouts. The company is headquartered in New York City and uses a hybrid schedule with three in-office days per week. Candidates based in NYC or open to relocation are preferred.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, growth equity, corporate development, or M&A-focused strategy work at a high-growth company.
- Experience personally sourcing, leading diligence for, negotiating, and closing M&A deals or strategic investments.
- Strong valuation, deal, and operating-modeling skills.
- Ability to learn a business quickly and identify the most important factors.
- Ability to prioritize competing opportunities against company goals and make clear decisions about what to pursue.
- Commercial negotiation skills and comfort dealing with founders, executives, and sophisticated counterparties.
- Ability to communicate complex analysis as simple, actionable recommendations.
- Comfort working with limited process, ambiguity, and ownership from initial idea through integration.
- Strong technical judgment to evaluate technologies, partner platforms, product-market fit, and alignment with engineering roadmaps.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in construction, vertical SaaS, or regulated markets.
Responsibilities
- Track competitors, new entrants, potential partners, funding, and deal activity across construction technology, vertical AI, and relevant markets.
- Source, evaluate, and rank acquisition, strategic investment, and partnership opportunities across permitting, compliance, construction software, and adjacent workflows.
- Evaluate partnership opportunities against company goals, set priorities, and communicate them to the Head of Partnerships.
- Develop business cases and financial models to recommend whether the company should build, buy, or partner.
- Lead acquisitions, strategic investments, and equity or transaction-style partnerships from initial outreach through diligence, valuation, negotiation, and close.
- Coordinate Finance, Legal, Product, Engineering, and Operations through diligence and deal execution.
- Own post-close integration plans with involved teams and track whether deals deliver on their thesis.
- Measure active partnerships against their original thesis and recommend whether to expand or exit them.
- Build relationships with founders, bankers, investors, and strategic partners.
- Present clear, concise recommendations and analysis to the executive team and board.
- Evaluate target technologies and partner platforms, assess product-market fit, and align deal strategies with long-term engineering roadmaps.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
