Corporate Development & Strategy Lead

We are seeking a Corporate Development & Strategy Lead for a full time and direct hire role for one of our amazing partners in the travel & tour industry. This role is remote, but living is Southern California is preferred. You MUST be living in the United States, and you MUST be a US Citizen or Green Card Holder.

This role does NOT offer sponsorship, it's NOT a consulting role, and we do NOT work with 3rd parties! Overview: Our client is a growing travel company with a portfolio of guided travel and vacation brands serving affinity organizations, group leaders, travel advisors, and individual travelers.

As they continue to grow, they are investing in a more proactive approach to corporate development, acquisitions, and strategic growth initiatives. This newly created role will work directly with the CEO and will have broad exposure across the business.

They will help identify and evaluate acquisition opportunities, manage key components of live transactions, and lead high-priority strategic projects that can meaningfully impact growth and profitability. This is a high-visibility, hands-on role in a lean organization.

This is an individual contributor with the opportunity for expanded leadership responsibilities. You should be analytically strong, commercially minded, highly accountable, and comfortable moving from financial analysis to executive-level discussions to getting projects across the finish line.

You should enjoy being the person in the room who figures things out. You should be comfortable building a financial model, speaking with a business owner, coordinating a diligence process, presenting a recommendation to senior leadership, or rolling up your sleeves to drive a strategic project forward.

This is not a role for someone who wants to operate within a narrowly defined corporate development function. It is an opportunity to work directly with senior leadership, gain broad exposure to the business, and have meaningful influence on both M&A and the compa