Pearl - EVP, Investor Relations & Corporate Development
Requirements
• 15+ years of progressive leadership across investor relations, corporate development, strategic finance, investment banking, private equity, top-tier management consulting, or market-facing finance roles; CFO or divisional CFO experience is helpful but not required. • Proven success shaping company narratives for sophisticated investors, Boards, lenders, analysts, or strategic partners. • Demonstrated ability to connect financial insight, operating performance, and strategic vision into a persuasive value-creation story. • Background in corporate development, business development, capital markets, private equity, investment banking, or strategy, with in-house operational exposure strongly preferred. • Experienced across multi-channel, digital, B2C, B2B, marketplace, or subscription-based business models. • Strong communicator with boardroom presence, executive gravitas, commercial instincts, and the ability to build confidence externally. • MBA or advanced degree preferred.
Responsibilities
• Shape Pearl’s Value Story and Strategic Finance Blueprint: Define and execute a strategy that positions Pearl for long-term value creation, strategic clarity, and compelling external communication. • Shape Pearl’s Value Story and Strategic Finance Blueprint: • Optimize Business Models: Refine our multi-channel strategy (lead generation, B2C, B2B) and develop scalable financial models that highlight future potential and resilience. • Optimize Business Models: • Tell the Strategic Story: Partner with the CEO to communicate our vision and performance with clarity and conviction to investors, the Board, employees, and key external stakeholders. • Tell the Strategic Story: • Expand Investor and Strategic Networks: Build and nurture relationships with financial, industry, and strategic partners, including investors, analysts, advisors, and ecosystem leaders, to elevate Pearl’s visibility, credibility, and growth opportunities. • Expand Investor and Strategic Networks: • Lead Corporate Development and Strategic Growth: Surface, evaluate, and help execute high-value strategic partnerships, business development opportunities, and growth initiatives that could accelerate enterprise value. • Lead Corporate Development and Strategic Growth: • Unlock Portfolio Value: Evaluate and prioritize growth opportunities across brands, markets, products, and channels to maximize enterprise value. • Unlock Portfolio Value: • Lead a High-Performing Team: Develop and mentor a world-class finance organization focused on insight, impact, execution, corporate development support, and market-facing readiness. • Lead a High-Performing Team: • Drive Strategic Readiness: Ensure financial and operational readiness that supports disciplined planning, scalable growth, and informed decision-making without positioning the role as a traditional CFO search. • Drive Strategic Readiness:
Benefits
• Pearl is building the super agent that will shape the future of how independent professionals work and grow by combining AI with trusted human expertise. • This is an opportunity to work directly with our founder and executive team at a pivotal stage in Pearl’s evolution. You’ll have the mandate to identify opportunities, build strategic relationships, shape our corporate development and inorganic growth strategy, and execute transactions that could meaningfully influence the company’s next chapter. • For the right corporate development leader, this is not a role focused on maintaining what already exists. It’s an opportunity to help create what comes next. • It’s an opportunity to help create what comes next. • Pay Transparency • Pay Transparency • Pearl will provide pay transparency information upon application to those in qualifying jurisdictions. (Employment is with JustAnswer LLC, a Pearl company.) • Our Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace
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