Senior Associate, Corporate Development

Hiive is redefining how private companies and their shareholders access liquidity. Through its institutional-grade platform, Hiive brings together buyers, sellers, and issuers to facilitate secondary transactions in venture-backed, pre-IPO companies, introducing efficiency, transparency, and standardization to an otherwise opaque asset class.

Recognized as one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies and backed by leading U.S. investors, Hiive is profitable, well-capitalized, and building a high-performance team to meet growing demand and pursue new market opportunities.

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  Sourcing and evaluating M&A and partnership opportunities, both by screening inbound interest and conducting proactive outbound searches, including working with sales & trading to identify strategic leads from commercial activity.

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  Managing the corporate development and partnership pipeline across active workstreams, including tracking, drafting briefs, managing follow-up cadences, and building internal alignment across stakeholders required to advance opportunities.

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  Producing strategic research that leadership can act on, including market landscape assessments, competitive analysis, and build-buy-partner recommendations for new business lines.

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  Preparing deal memos for specific M&A and partnership opportunities, including preliminary due diligence, strategic fit assessment, and key risks.

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  Supporting deal execution by coordinating with legal, finance, and product teams on diligence, terms review, and integration planning.

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  Building the operating infrastructure of the corporate development function: screening criteria, diligence templates, memo formats, and pipeline reporting.

• 3-6 years of experience in investment banking, management consulting, private equity, venture capital, startups, or corporate development.

• Structured thinking and clear written communication. You can take a complex, ambiguous opportunity and produce a concise memo that a non-specialist can act on.

• Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams with minimal oversight, balancing thoroughness with speed.

• Fluency with AI tools for research, analysis, and document production. The Executive Office is already a strong adopter of AI across these workflows, so you will be joining a team that actively invests in these capabilities.

• Ability to build domain knowledge quickly in a complex, regulated financial services environment. You will need to develop an understanding of pre-IPO secondary markets and institutional customer behavior, and stay current on competitive and market developments that inform Hiive's strategic decisions.

• Comfort operating close to senior leadership in a fast-moving environment. You will regularly interact with the CEO and executive team, and be required to move confidently on emerging opportunities where the full picture is still developing.

• Experience at a top-tier management consulting firm or an elite investment bank.

• Familiarity with financial services, capital markets, or fintech business models. Direct experience in private markets, venture capital, or alternative investments is a strong plus.

• Experience evaluating M&A targets or conducting due diligence in a corporate development or private equity context.

• Understanding of how technology products are built and commercialized. You do not need to be technical, but you should be able to assess build-vs-buy decisions alongside product and engineering teams.

• An existing interest in or exposure to the venture capital ecosystem, private markets, or the broader startup and growth-stage technology landscape.

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