Sr. Director, Corporate Development

Responsibilities

We are seeking a high‑velocity, full‑lifecycle Corporate Development executive to lead enterprise‑wide strategy and execution across:

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Strategic Ventures & Business Investments
• Intellectual Property Commercialization & Monetization

This leader will architect, source, structure, negotiate, and integrate transactions that accelerate technology differentiation, market expansion, and long‑term enterprise value creation. The ideal candidate is energized by frontier technologies, thrives in ambiguity, and can translate innovation into accretive growth. The ideal candidate is a strategic, analytically strong, and hands‑on mission and execution‑oriented leader to drive the company’s inorganic growth strategy and shape the future of our Gov Con portfolio.

This strategic builder‑operator role will lead efforts across M&A, strategic ventures, and inorganic growth‑focused partnerships, while ensuring that research and development investments translate into differentiated, mission‑aligned solutions.

Reporting to the CEO and working closely with the executive team, this leader will identify, evaluate, and execute opportunities that accelerate scale, expand capabilities, and strengthen our competitive position. This role is accountable for identifying, shaping, and executing transactions that accelerate scale, deepen technology differentiation, expand market access, and strengthen long‑term enterprise value. For M&A and Ventures, the role spans the full lifecycle—from proactive target sourcing and technology ecosystem scanning, through rigorous diligence, valuation, structuring, and negotiation, to transaction execution and, as needed, early integration planning with M&A.

The ideal candidate brings deep familiarity with the Gov Con and broader technology ecosystem, a passion for national missions, and the ability to operate in a fast‑moving, highly collaborative executive environment.

To accelerate revenue realization, strengthen win probability, and ensure capital deployment decisions directly support sustainable, mission‑aligned growth, this role must operate in tight partnership with the CEO responsible for corporate strategy along with the VP of Business Development. This partnership mutually reinforces inorganic and organic growth strategies. This role works with the CEO and CTO to identify capability gaps, technology adjacencies, and market expansion vectors.

Business Development (BD) translates those capabilities into pipeline, revenue capture, and customer intimacy. BD informs acquisition and ventures theses with real‑time customer demand signals and competitive intelligence, while Corporate Development equips BD with differentiated assets, new venture partnerships and capabilities, and expanded addressable markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and operationalize the company’s inorganic growth strategy, with primary accountability for M&A execution and strategic venture investing.
• Maintain Noblis’ prioritized acquisition and investment thesis aligned to capability expansion, market adjacency, and long‑term enterprise value creation.
• Proactively source and screen targets aligned to corporate strategy, capability expansion, customer adjacency, and long‑term vision including managing a dynamic, staged‑gate pipeline of acquisition targets and venture opportunities.
• Conduct market landscaping, competitive analysis, and whitespace assessments across priority Gov Con segments and deep tech priorities focused on inorganic growth.
• Maintain a robust pipeline of prospective targets across services, technology, software, and mission‑focused platforms.
• Build and sustain relationships with investment banks, brokers, private equity sponsors, and industry executives to ensure early and frequent access to high‑quality opportunities.
• Using approved AI tools, establish repeatable sourcing mechanisms and deal‑flow channels across both Gov Con and tech ecosystem.

• Ensure technical defensibility and competitive moat through architecture and IP strategy including the establishment of governance and performance metrics for IP value creation…