Corporate Development Manager

Location Details: Gurugram, India

At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.​

This is a hybrid position. You’ll divide your time between working remotely from your home and an office, so you should live within commuting distance. Hybrid teams may work in-office as much as a few times a week or as little as once a month or quarter, as decided by leadership. The hiring manager can share more about what hybrid work might look like for this team.

Join our team

The Corporate Development team plays a key role in GoDaddy’s growth. They find industry trends and build relationships with partners. They identify, negotiate, structure, and finalize strategic acquisitions and investments. We are seeing a Corporate Development Manager to join our team!

This Manager, reporting to GoDaddy's Head of Corporate Development, will support transaction teams. Their role is to drive growth and improve GoDaddy's market position with capital deployments and business combinations. This role plays an essential part in crafting our future growth through investments and acquisitions. It brings in new and innovative capabilities, improves existing ones, and grows our footprint and market opportunities.

You will work across all aspects of inorganic growth, helping identify and build a pipeline of investment and acquisition opportunities. You will independently own meaningful initiatives throughout the deal lifecycle. This involves building financial forecasts, assessing value, and conducting detailed reviews. You will also assist with structuring and negotiations through signing and closing.

What you'll get to do...

• Own significant workstreams across the end-to-end M&A process, including sourcing, evaluating, modeling, and supporting negotiation and closing
• Develop an outlook on potential transactions — including whether a deal is attractive — and communicate that recommendation clearly to deal leads and interested parties
• Build financial models and valuation analyses, and translate complex fiscal and strategic information into clear investment materials and executive-ready reports
• Lead due diligence workstreams and coordinate cross-functionally with Finance, Legal, Tax, Strategy, and business teams to keep deal processes moving
• Conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify strategic opportunities, industry trends, and emerging areas for growth and innovation
• Build and maintain relationships with key industry players, investment banks, and advisors to support a healthy deal pipeline
• Support post-merger integration efforts to help ensure seamless transitions and value realization after close
• Contribute to playbooks that drive repeatable process and strong execution throughout the mergers and acquisitions division

Your experience should include...

• 5+ years of experience in investment banking, with investment banking experience required as a foundation for this role
• Substantive, hands-on M&A transaction experience — including buy-side and/or sell-side exposure, transaction modeling, valuation, and due diligence — with meaningful personal ownership of deal workstreams, not solely support-level involvement
• Strong analytical and financial rigor, demonstrating skill in interpreting complex data and financial documents and forming an independent point of view
• Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams and components of a transaction with growing independence, while keeping deal processes on track
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate financial and strategic complexity into clear, understandable recommendations for collaborators and deal leads

You might also have...

• Prior experience transitioning from investment banking into an in-house business development unit
• Experience in the technology sector or other high-growth, sophisticated industries
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment with multiple partners
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent experience; MBA preferred
• Proficiency in AI tools, particularly as they relate to sourcing, modeling, or diligence in a corporate development context

We encourage you to apply even if your experience or skillset doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement. We value a wide range of backgrounds and transferable skills, and we are excited to support learning and growth.

We've got your back... We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy’s benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

About us... GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us.

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.

Our recruiting team is available to assist you in completing your application. If they could be helpful, please reach out to myrecruiter@godaddy.com.

GoDaddy doesn’t accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies.