Corporate Development Director

We are looking for a Corporate Development Director to join our team. In this role you will play a pivotal role in shaping the companys strategic growth through acquisitions, partnerships, and ecosystem expansion. This is not just a deal-making role its a leadership position at the intersection of business strategy, technology, and innovation. You will work closely with executive leadership, product teams, and external partners to identify transformative opportunities across cybersecurity domains like SASE, Cloud Security, and SecOps.

If you thrive in fast-moving environments, have deep industry insight, and are ready to influence the future of cybersecurity, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities

Ecosystem Relationships, Deal Sourcing
Proactive out-reach to start-ups and mature companies in ecosystem understand offerings, build and maintain relationships
Maintain relationships with cybersecurity focused investment banks, VCs, PEs
Source, screen and manage an on-going deal flow of acquisition opportunities.
Strategic Domain Leadership-- E.g. SASE, Cloud Security, SecOps, Managed Services, etc.
Deep domain understanding (customer value, use cases, technologies, offerings, vendors)
Know on a personal deep level all companies active in the domain (startups and mature co)
Work with R&D and PM to understand CHKP product roadmap in the domain and define Corp Dev strategy (Build/Partner/Buy)
Assist R&D and PM in partnership / OEM discussions
Lead the evaluation of M&A target companies
M&A Due Diligence Leadership
Project Manage DD process - internally and vis-à-vis the target company

Engage with all DD Team Leaders to define their scope of DD and key questions
Facilitate Team Leaders meetings with their target company counterparts; prepare agendas; ensure good communication
Issue DD findings reports
Present DD finding to Management
M&A Deal Making
Play significant role in M&A deal making process (legal, finance, accounting, tax, HR aspects)