THE DAY-TO-DAY
- Determine and pursue Viant’s M&A priorities based on corporate strategy, product vision/objectives and roadmap.
- Identify, scope, lead, and socialize explorations of market sectors that align to Viant’s strategic objectives.
- Advise on and assist in development of Viant’s corporate strategy in conjunction with executive management and other company stakeholders, especially with regards to identifying how strategy can be accelerated through acquisitions.
- Maintain Viant’s brand of innovation and excellence through continuing thought leadership/strategic POVs and cadence of stakeholder engagement.
- Develop and maintain a broad network of industry contacts, venture capital investors and financial advisors to assist in understanding market and industry trends and building transaction opportunities.
- Manage and lead the M&A transaction process including financial analysis, valuation and transaction structuring, diligence, and executive and board presentations.
- Help lead negotiations with Viant’s executive management, directly with target management.
- Drive and manage cross functional teams across the organization necessary to diligence and complete deal execution and integration planning.
- In conjunction with M&A integration team, define and coordinate the development of integration plans and assist with post-closing integration execution
GREAT TO HAVE
- BS/BA degree required – candidates with an MBA preferred
- 15+ years of combined experience in investment banking and the cloud software, services and/or advertising tech industry in a corporate development role
- Previous AdTech experience is strongly preferred
- Experience in investment banking
- Proven ability to gain trust and negotiate mutually beneficial business objectives with potential targets and within the organization
- Based in prior experience, has an active strong network of founders, investors, ecosystem partners, and thought leaders to tap into for views on industry trends and market intelligence
- Ability to quickly understand complex issues and develop/apply simplifying frameworks to facilitate broader organizational understanding, decision-making, and action
- Proficient at leveraging analytics, data, financial models, and insights to drive decision-making.
- Excellent project management skills: able to effectively manage multiple ongoing projects to meet deadlines
- Outcome oriented with very strong ability to personally create high quality, customer-facing presentations
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Open to travel as needed to support Corporate Development opportunities
LIFE AT VIANT
- Investing in our employee’s professional growth is important to us, but so is investing in their well-being. That’s why Viant was voted one of the best places to work and some of our favorite employee benefits include fully paid health insurance, paid parental leave and unlimited PTO and more.
What We Do
Viant® is a publicly traded (Nasdaq: DSP) people-based advertising software company that enables ad buyers to plan, create, execute, and measure their omnichannel digital advertising investments. Its self-service DSP for omnichannel advertising, Adelphic®, provides the ability to execute programmatic advertising campaigns across TV, mobile, desktop, audio, digital out-of-home, and is the only DSP with IPv6 support for CTV environments. Viant’s proprietary, first-party data is linked to 115 million households, over 1 billion connected devices, and is combined with access to more than 280,000 audience attributes from more than 70 people-based data partners to enable scaled and accurate audience targeting and attribution. Viant is an Inc. Best Places to Work award winner and Adelphic is featured on AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list.