principal, Corporate Development
Starbucks Coffee Company•Seattle, WA
•$165,500 - $276,000•Hybrid
About The Position
The corporate development principal serves as a recognized expert in M&A, leading highly complex, high-impact transactions and shaping strategic investment priorities. This role develops deal strategies, leads negotiations, and provides thought leadership on valuation, structure, and market positioning. It also influences senior leadership decisions and drives cross-functional alignment on critical growth initiatives.
Requirements
- Expertise in corporate development and investment strategy, with recognized authority in M&A, partnerships, and capital allocation decisions
- Advanced strategic and financial judgment, including the ability to evaluate highly complex opportunities with significant ambiguity and risk
- Enterprise perspective and business integration, including the ability to connect transactions to long-term strategy and enterprise priorities
Responsibilities
- Lead high-impact strategic transactions that shape company growth, including large-scale acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic alliances.
- Define deal strategies and investment approaches, including identifying opportunities, assessing strategic fit, and determining optimal transaction structures.
- Support negotiations and external engagements with senior stakeholders, influencing outcomes on complex, high-value agreements.
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits
- short-term and long-term disability
- paid parental leave
- family expansion reimbursement
- paid vacation from date of hire
- sick time (accrued at 1 hour for every 25 hours worked)
- eight paid holidays
- two personal days per year
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- discounted company stock program (S.I.P.)
- Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock)
- incentivized emergency savings
- financial well-being tools
- 100% upfront tuition coverage for a first-time bachelor’s degree through Arizona State University’s online program via the Starbucks College Achievement Plan
- student loan management resources
- access to other educational opportunities
- backup care
- DACA reimbursement
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
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