At Guild, we believe talent is everywhere and that opportunity should be too. We continue to have our home and headquarters in Denver, but we have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in the United States. While some roles may require proximity to our Denver office, roles based outside of our Denver office can sit in any of the following 32 states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI and Washington D.C. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift.
If you are an Internal Candidate, please apply via our Internal Job Board.
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To thrive as a company and meet our impact goals, we must cultivate a culture of high-performance. We know managers are often the single-largest driver of employee satisfaction and growth, and our talent is our biggest asset. Because of that, we’ve identified consistent expectations for all of Guild’s people managers — helping you know what to expect from your experience here.
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Please note, this is a Denver based position. Please ensure you are eligible to work in the Denver area OR open to relocation prior to applying for this role.
Guild is hiring a Senior Corporate Development Analyst/Manager to help Guild evaluate, prioritize, and execute the right partnerships and M&A opportunities—while driving the strategy and planning cadence that turns choices into results.
What you'll do
Corporate Development & Partnerships
- Map the landscape: Build market maps and a living pipeline of targets (partners and potential acquisitions) with clear screen criteria (strategic fit, financial profile, capabilities).
- Form the thesis: Craft deal theses and business cases, including synergy logic, build‑buy‑partner tradeoffs, and integration hypotheses.
- Model the economics: Develop valuation and scenario models (comps/DCF, accretion/dilution, unit economics) and quantify ROI and risks.
- Run light diligence: Coordinate cross‑functional, light DD with Product, Finance, Legal, and GTM; manage data requests and summarize findings for executive decisions.
- Stand up partnerships: Structure and size pilot partnerships, define success metrics, and support commercialization plans with functional owners.
- Exec materials: Prepare clear, decision‑ready memos and ELT/Board materials throughout the deal/partnership lifecycle.
Corporate Strategy & Portfolio Planning
- Shape choices: Support long‑range planning and annual portfolio choices—market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM), competitive intelligence, and prioritization frameworks.
- Build business cases: Translate insights into investment‑grade recommendations with explicit resourcing and expected impact.
- Drive cadence: Help run the quarterly strategy → plan → review rhythm (OKRs, dashboards), turning decisions into cross‑functional workplans and measurable outcomes.
- Communicate crisply: Distill complex analysis into simple narratives that drive alignment and action with senior leaders.
How you work
- Leverage generative‑AI and knowledge tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Glean, etc) to accelerate research, analysis, and synthesis—responsibly and securely.
- Consistently demonstrate Guild’s core competencies and values.
- 5+ years total experience, including 2–3 years in investment banking or management consulting (M&A/strategy focus), plus experience in corporate development, corporate strategy, or BizOps—ideally in SaaS/fintech.
- Financial rigor: Advanced Excel/Sheets; comfort with valuation (comps/DCF), synergy modeling, scenario/sensitivity analysis, and unit economics.
- Strategy toolkit: Market sizing, competitive analysis, and prioritization frameworks that lead to clear recommendations—not just analysis.
- Execution & influence: Proven ability to drive cross‑functional work, set operating cadences, and influence without authority at the Director/VP level.
- Executive communication: Concise, decision‑oriented writing and presenting; ELT/Board‑quality materials.
- Partnerships/M&A process fluency: Familiarity with screens, LOIs/term sheets, data rooms, and integration planning (light).
- Tools: Proficiency with presentation tools; BI/analytics familiarity (e.g., Looker/Tableau/Power BI) and basic SQL are a plus..
Nice to have
- Experience in HR Tech/EdTech, workforce development, or employer benefits ecosystems.
- Hands‑on partnership commercialization or post‑merger integration exposure.
We are committed to equal pay for equal work and believe in compensation transparency. All salary ranges are standardized nationwide and will not vary by region. This role offers a competitive total compensation package, including a base salary range across sr. analyst and manager of $106,500-$168,400 base AND variable compensation (bonus) eligibility along with stock options. Compensation offered will be based on a combination of factors such as experience, competencies, and internal equity.
Posting Date: December 8th, 2025
*This role will stay open for a minimum of 3 days.
Guild is America’s leading talent development company, partnering with the country’s most innovative employers, including Chipotle, Target, Walgreens, JPMorgan Chase, Hilton, PepsiCo, Tyson, and more, to build the talent needed for today and a resilient workforce for tomorrow. Guild helps employers identify, develop, and mobilize internal talent — enabling workers to gain skills for in-demand roles and helping companies stay agile. By connecting employees to real-world learning, coaching, and career support, and providing companies with actionable talent insights, Guild transforms overlooked talent into high-impact contributors and positions companies for long-term, sustainable growth. For more information, visit https://www.guild.com.
Guild is female-founded and a certified B Corp. The company has been named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2022 list, CNBC Disruptor50 list three years in a row, Inc. Best Led Companies list, Fast Co. World Changing Ideas list and the B Lab Best for the World list among many others.
Guild is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let your recruiter know. We currently offer the following benefits:
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Vacation policy to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
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Top Skills
What We Do
Guild’s mission is to unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education, skilling, and career mobility. Guild’s Career Opportunity Platform™ enables forward-thinking employers to invest in their employees, creating life-changing opportunities for personal and professional growth through education and learning programs, career development, and one-on-one coaching. Guild partners with the nation’s largest employers — including Walmart, Chipotle, Target, Disney, and healthcare systems like UCHealth and Providence Health — to create cultures of opportunity that will help them attract and retain top talent and grow their future workforce from within. Guild offers a marketplace of curated education and learning programs designed for the success of working adults. Layered onto that is support, guidance, and resources at every step to help ensure the new skills employees are building translate into career pathways that are in demand at their companies — all without paying for tuition or career services on their own. Through Guild’s partnerships, more than 5 million employees across America have had access to Guild through their employers over the last 12 months.
Why Work With Us
As a certified B-corp with a double-bottom line business model that does well by doing good, we're looking for people who want to help us expand economic opportunity through education. You’ll join a driven and collaborative team, be challenged every day, and go home knowing you’re helping to make a difference in the lives of working adults.
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