Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Corporate Development Analyst role is featured because it sits at a core strategic junction in enterprise SaaS, where product direction, platform capability, and market positioning are often accelerated through acquisitions and minority investments. The remit described spans trend research, target sourcing, and executive-level materials, indicating a seat close to how a large cloud software company evaluates where to build, buy, or partner as the ecosystem evolves.
From a SaaS career perspective, corporate development experience is unusually portable across the sector because it builds fluency in recurring-revenue business models, competitive landscapes, and the mechanics of integrating technology and teams after a deal closes. Exposure to due diligence and post-merger integration also develops a practical understanding of how product roadmaps, go-to-market motions, and operating metrics change when new capabilities are brought into a platform, which is valuable in both strategy and operating roles.
This role fits professionals who enjoy structured analysis paired with cross-functional coordination, and who are comfortable translating ambiguous market signals into clear recommendations. It will suit someone early to mid-career looking to deepen enterprise software coverage while working closely with senior stakeholders and external counterparts such as founders and investors.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
The corporate development team partners closely with product, engineering and business leaders to source, evaluate, execute and integrate acquisition opportunities. This role will support the Corporate Development team in facilitating acquisitions and corporate investments.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Research technology trends and market landscapes to source acquisition ideas
Engage with internal business leaders to evaluate these trends and potential targets
Develop M&A business proposals that are presented to executive leadership team
Assist in deal negotiations and due diligence efforts
Assist/manage cross-functional post merger integration efforts
Build and maintain relationships with potential targets and industry VC’s
Assist in executing and managing corporate investments
Assist with M&A board and executive materials
REQUIREMENTS:
3+ years’ experience in corporate development, venture capital, private equity or investment banking with a technology focus (prior corporate development experience in enterprise tech is a plus)
Bachelor’s degree in business, finance or related degree
Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
Excellent financing modeling skills
Exceptional communication and presentation skills
Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?
For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com
