Corporate Development Senior Associate

San Mateo, California, United StatesHybridFull TimeSenior$167,160–$209,590 /yrPosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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Role summary

Roblox is seeking a Corporate Development Senior Associate to drive its inorganic growth strategy by identifying, evaluating, and executing acquisitions. This role involves partnering with internal product and engineering leaders, as well as external stakeholders like founders and VCs. You will manage the M&A pipeline, conduct financial modeling, lead deal execution, and build relationships within the ecosystem. A key aspect of this high-visibility position is leveraging AI tools to scale the Corporate Development function. The role requires 3-5 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, or venture capital, with strong financial modeling and deal execution skills.

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

Roblox is seeking a Corporate Development Senior Associate to help drive our inorganic growth strategy. In this role, you will scale our acquisition pipeline by identifying, evaluating, and executing tuck-in acquisitions that accelerate product development and our company’s strategic objectives. You will work closely with internal product and engineering leaders as well as external stakeholders, including founders, VCs, and M&A advisors.

You will operate at the intersection of finance, technology, and strategy, partnering closely with Roblox leaders to evaluate and identify high-impact opportunities. This is a high-visibility role for a proactive professional looking to impact a global platform through strategic transactions. Additionally, you will drive efforts to leverage AI tools that can scale the CorpDev function.

You Will:

Partner with product and engineering leaders to identify strategic areas of opportunity.

Lead the identification and screening of potential acquisitions, managing a robust M&A pipeline aligned with Roblox’s strategic goals.

Drive initial evaluations and act as a primary point of contact for startups and founders, conducting introductory calls and representing Roblox within the ecosystem.

Drive deal execution across the full transaction lifecycle, including business case development, deal structuring, financial modeling, due diligence, and post-close integration planning.

Build and maintain deep relationships with founders, venture capitalists, and advisors to ensure a consistent flow of high-quality opportunities.

Drive efforts to use AI tools to scale the Corporate Development function.

Report to the Head of Corporate Development

You Have:

3-5 years of professional experience across investment banking, private equity, or venture capital.

Proven experience in financial modeling, valuation, business case development, market research, and supporting qualitative and quantitative work throughout the M&A lifecycle.

Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport with technical leaders, founders, and external stakeholders.

A proven ability to navigate ambiguity, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and thrive in a high-growth environment.

A self-starter mentality with the ability to take a project from an initial idea through to a structured evaluation or execution.

A strong interest in leveraging emerging AI technologies to automate and scale business functions.

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.

Annual Salary Range

$167,160—$209,590 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.

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