Member of Corporate Development, M&A

Member of Corporate Development, M&A LocationNew YorkEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeOn-siteDepartmentStrategy & OperationsCompensation$150K – $200K • Offers Equity • Offers BonusAbout ArcaArca is a wealth management firm built from the ground up with AI. Most people get financial advice that's reactive: an annual check-in, a plan that's a document instead of a living thing, a relationship where you're one of three hundred clients your advisor is trying to remember. We think that's backwards. The kind of service that used to require a team of specialists behind you, the kind that makes you feel like the only person in the room, should be available to far more than the ultra-wealthy.So we're building it. We're not SaaS — we are the wealth management business, rebuilding it from the inside with AI. Our platform is an Iron Man suit for advisors: it takes over the low-leverage work so they can focus on what actually requires a human, showing up with empathy, context, and judgment. Underneath, it keeps a living understanding of each client. It remembers the thing you mentioned once, six months ago. It notices when your life changes — a new job, a new kid, a market shift — and adjusts before you think to ask. You won't see the technology. You'll just notice your advisor seems to know you better than any financial professional ever has.That's the product we're growing: client by client, on the strength of the experience itself. We started by acquiring firms managing over $1B in client assets, which gave us real advisors, real clients, and real financial outcomes to build against from day one. But acquisition was the starting line. The bet is that an advisor backed by this platform delivers something good enough that clients come to us on their own.It's a $20T market, and we think it's ready to be rebuilt.— Rron, CEOThe receiptsStage: Series A, $64M raisedBacked by: General Catalyst, Index Ventures, VenrockBoard & Advisors: Former CEO of Vanguard, Former CFO of Schwab, Founder of Altruist, Morgan Housel (author of The Psychology of Money)The teamWe’re small on purpose. We’re a team of 12 based out of NYC and we’re engineering heavy with 8 engineers. We hail from high growth startups like Stripe, Ramp, Rippling, Plaid, Doordash, & Glean.We’re fully in-office in Flatiron, five days a week—lunch together, coffee breaks, basketball games, happy hours.The roleAs a Member of Corporate Development focused on M&A, you're a key part of Arca's growth engine. We grow by acquiring RIAs — typically ~$500M-to-$2B+ AUM firms led by a founder thinking carefully about their next chapter — and putting our platform underneath them. Your job is to find those firms, build real relationships with the people who run them, and carry deals from the first coffee to close. For a founder deciding what happens to the firm they spent a career building, you're the person they come to trust to get them there.This is a high-ownership seat with a direct line to the Head of M&A and senior leadership. You own relationships, you shape the pipeline, and you see your work in every firm we bring on. Acquisition is how the whole company grows, so the deals you close set the pace for everything else.What you'll ownSourcing and relationships. You cultivate proprietary relationships with RIA founders and principals, building a pipeline of ~$500M-to-$2B+ AUM targets and becoming someone they trust long before they're ready to transact. The long game is the job.Deals, end to end. Outreach, qualification, valuation, diligence, structuring, close. You don't hand a deal off at some stage — you carry it through.The analysis behind the call. You build the financial models and valuation work that shape deal terms and the go/no-go decisions, and you have a real point of view on what a firm is worth.Diligence across the company. You coordinate workstreams across finance, legal, compliance, and operations to get deals over the line.The acquisition playbook. As we scale to four or...