Staff Corporate Development Associate
Remote
Toronto
$108,438 - $141,407/yearly
Mid Level
About the role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for a finance or operations professional who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys working across disciplines, and can operate with autonomy in a fast-moving environment
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or related field; CPA or MBA preferred
- 8+ years of experience in corporate development, finance, strategy, or operations at a high-growth company, venture fund, investment bank, or consulting firm
- Strong analytical and modeling skills, with the ability to translate data into strategic recommendations
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple complex workstreams in parallel
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including board-level materials
- Active interest in deep tech, quantum, or advanced computing sectors is a plus
- This position can work onsite or hybrid from one of our offices (College Park, MD, Bothell, WA) or fully remote in the US or Canada
What the job involves
- As a Staff Associate, Corporate Development, you will play a critical role in driving our M&A and investment pipeline — from diligence through close and integration
- You’ll work cross-functionally with Finance, Legal, Product, and executive leadership to ensure each transaction is executed with rigor and aligned to IonQ’s long-term strategy
- Coordinate due diligence across Finance, Legal, Product, and HR for active acquisitions and minority investments
- Own data room management, diligence trackers, and closing checklists
- Support financial modeling, valuation, and scenario analyses for live deals
- Develop integration work plans for acquired companies, ensuring alignment across accounting, HR, and product teams
- Partner with the CFO’s office to prepare closing memos, board packages, and post-close tracking materials
- Track and monitor IonQ’s minority investment portfolio
- Build standardized diligence and integration frameworks to streamline future M&A
- Contribute to corporate reporting, including quarterly portfolio reviews and financial updates
- Conduct market and company analyses to support IonQ’s strategy across compute, networking, and sensing
- Help evaluate emerging quantum and adjacent technologies for strategic alignment
About IonQ
Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
201-500
At IonQ, our mission is to build the world’s best quantum computers to solve the world’s most complex problems, transforming business, society, and the planet for the better.
Our unique trapped-ion approach combines unmatched physical performance, perfect qubit replication, optical networkability, and highly-optimized algorithms to create a quantum computer that is as scalable as it is powerful, and that will support a broad array of applications across a variety of industries.
Want to help shape the future of computing? Join us: https://ionq.com/jobs
Staff Corporate Development Associate
Remote
Toronto
$108,438 - $141,407/yearly
Mid Level
About the role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for a finance or operations professional who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys working across disciplines, and can operate with autonomy in a fast-moving environment
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or related field; CPA or MBA preferred
- 8+ years of experience in corporate development, finance, strategy, or operations at a high-growth company, venture fund, investment bank, or consulting firm
- Strong analytical and modeling skills, with the ability to translate data into strategic recommendations
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple complex workstreams in parallel
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including board-level materials
- Active interest in deep tech, quantum, or advanced computing sectors is a plus
- This position can work onsite or hybrid from one of our offices (College Park, MD, Bothell, WA) or fully remote in the US or Canada
What the job involves
- As a Staff Associate, Corporate Development, you will play a critical role in driving our M&A and investment pipeline — from diligence through close and integration
- You’ll work cross-functionally with Finance, Legal, Product, and executive leadership to ensure each transaction is executed with rigor and aligned to IonQ’s long-term strategy
- Coordinate due diligence across Finance, Legal, Product, and HR for active acquisitions and minority investments
- Own data room management, diligence trackers, and closing checklists
- Support financial modeling, valuation, and scenario analyses for live deals
- Develop integration work plans for acquired companies, ensuring alignment across accounting, HR, and product teams
- Partner with the CFO’s office to prepare closing memos, board packages, and post-close tracking materials
- Track and monitor IonQ’s minority investment portfolio
- Build standardized diligence and integration frameworks to streamline future M&A
- Contribute to corporate reporting, including quarterly portfolio reviews and financial updates
- Conduct market and company analyses to support IonQ’s strategy across compute, networking, and sensing
- Help evaluate emerging quantum and adjacent technologies for strategic alignment
About IonQ
Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
201-500
At IonQ, our mission is to build the world’s best quantum computers to solve the world’s most complex problems, transforming business, society, and the planet for the better.
Our unique trapped-ion approach combines unmatched physical performance, perfect qubit replication, optical networkability, and highly-optimized algorithms to create a quantum computer that is as scalable as it is powerful, and that will support a broad array of applications across a variety of industries.
Want to help shape the future of computing? Join us: https://ionq.com/jobs