Director, Corporate Development & Strategy

Director, Corporate Development & Strategy

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Job Description

You will act as a thought leader across the Corporate Development & Strategy team to drive critical business decisions and strategy and work closely with senior executives and cross-functional teams to develop and execute M&A transactions. You will:

• Track and understand technological trends and shifts in the Security ecosystem that could provide new opportunities to FireEye
• Identify trends and develop strategic frameworks and competitive landscape maps for segments of interest to FireEye
• Establish and nurture relationships with potential sellers, i.e. corporations, entrepreneurs, bankers, investors
• Evaluate and pull together business cases on portfolios of new and emerging technologies that could have disruptive consequences in Security
• Work closely with Product and Mandiant Solutions team on building out portfolio of new opportunities with Go To Market strategies
• Lead cross-functional acquisition team through strategy formulation, transaction negotiation, due diligence, integration planning, and post-merger integration
• Develop longer-term financial and operating metrics to improve business performance in conjunction with FP&A team
• Collaborate with analytics team to develop insight into root cause drivers of key operating metrics such as customer retention and behavior, product refresh cycles, individual product performance, etc

Qualifications

• Ideal candidate will have a breadth of ability from constructing detailed Excel models for analysis to synthesizing that analysis for presentation to senior execs and the board.
• Prior experience of 8-10 years of relevant high-tech work experience in investment banking, private equity, management consulting and/or corporate development required
• Strong Excel modeling skills (Marcos, Scenario Tools, Simulations) and PowerPoint deck story telling capability (with strong ability to incorporate key visualizations of data and concepts)
• Strategic thinker with excellent business judgment who has a passion for tackling complex, financial/operational data and modeling
• Excellent presentation/communication skills, with the ability to distill complex analyses into executive-level insights and recommendations
• Prior experience in CyberSecurity preferred

Additional Information

At FireEye we are committed to our #OneTeam approach combining diversity, collaboration, and excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability. Requests for accommodation due to disability can be sent directly to [emailprotected]