Manager, Corporate Development and Strategy

Appodeal is a dynamic US-based product company with a truly global presence. We have offices in Warsaw, Barcelona and Parkland (FL), along with remote team members located around the world. Our company thrives on diversity, collaboration, and innovation, making us a leader in the mobile app monetization space. Why Appodeal? At Appodeal, we’re more than just a company—we’re a team united by a common mission: Help people discover and grow their talents through products that enable successful mobile app businesses! We take pride in our cutting-edge product and our internationally dispersed team of talented professionals. Here’s what we value, and what we hope you do too: Continuous Learning and Growth: We are passionate about learning, growing personally, and building rewarding careers. Making an Impact: We are committed to building a history-defining company that leaves a lasting impact on the mobile app industry. Solving Exciting Challenges: We tackle complex problems every day, supported by a team of world-class professionals and mentors. Enjoying the Journey: We believe in having fun while working toward our goals. Role summary Appodeal is looking for a hands-on corporate development professional to help identify, evaluate and execute acquisitions, investments and strategic partnerships across mobile apps and advertising technology. The role combines rigorous transaction execution with commercial judgment: building the investment case, challenging assumptions, coordinating diligence and turning analysis into a clear recommendation for the executive team and Board. This is an execution role, not a presentation-only strategy position. The successful candidate will work directly with the CFO and business leaders from initial market mapping through signing, closing and value delivery. Much of the first pass in deal work — market mapping, company research, comparable sets, a first read of diligence documents — is increasingly done with AI tools. This role is expected to use them, and to know where their output cannot be trusted. Core responsibilities Build and maintain a focused pipeline of acquisition, investment and partnership opportunities aligned with company and business-unit priorities. Develop financial models, valuation analyses, returns cases and downside scenarios; reconcile strategic logic with the economics of each opportunity. Lead early-stage target assessment, including market attractiveness, product fit, competitive position, customer concentration, technology differentiation and management-team quality. Prepare concise decision materials for the executive team and Board, with a clear recommendation, key assumptions, risks, sensitivities and unresolved questions. Coordinate cross-functional due diligence across finance, tax, legal, product, technology, data, privacy, commercial and people workstreams; maintain accountability for issues and deadlines. Support transaction structuring and…