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Harrison Hayes | Life Sciences Investment Banking & Strategic Advisory
New York / Hybrid / Remote
Harrison Hayes is looking for an unusually resourceful AI Corporate Development Extern/Intern to work directly with senior leadership at the intersection of artificial intelligence, biotechnology, pharmaceutical strategy, investment banking and corporate development.
This is not a conventional internship.
The assignment is deceptively simple:
Use AI to find valuable life-sciences opportunities before everyone else finds them.
Harrison Hayes is a specialized life-sciences investment banking and strategic advisory firm with experience across M&A, licensing, strategic advisory, capital formation, royalty monetization and transaction-related diligence. The firm has advised on more than $25 billion in life-sciences transactions.
We are developing a new AI-enabled approach to opportunity identification and corporate development. We want someone smart, skeptical and slightly obsessive to help us build it.
What You'll Do
You will use ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and other AI and research tools to continuously interrogate the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical-device and digital-health landscape.
Your work may include:
Identifying deprioritized, discontinued, non-core and capital-stranded therapeutic assets
Finding clinical programs where a failed endpoint may conceal a different development opportunity
Tracking pipeline restructurings, layoffs, strategic reviews and portfolio-prioritization decisions
Identifying assets available for licensing, divestiture or alternative financing
Finding returned rights following terminated pharmaceutical partnerships
Monitoring clinical-trial results, FDA and EMA developments, SEC filings, earnings calls and scientific publications
Identifying biotechnology companies approaching critical financing or strategic inflection points
Researching potential acquisition, licensing, Build-to-Buy and asset-separation opportunities
Mapping potential buyers, sellers, licensors, licensees and strategic partners
Identifying the executives actually responsible for each opportunity
Verifying contact information and building highly targeted outreach
Developing concise investment theses explaining why Harrison Hayes should investigate an opportunity now
Using AI to uncover connections between scientific evidence, corporate strategy, capital constraints and transaction potential that may not be obvious from conventional screening
You will not simply create lists.
You will be expected to answer the harder question:
Why is this an opportunity?
The Work Gets Interesting Quickly
A biotech company announces that it is discontinuing a Phase II program.
Most people record that the drug failed.
We want you to ask:
Did the drug fail, or did the trial fail?
Was the endpoint wrong? Was the population too broad? Is there a responder phenotype buried in the data? Did the program simply fail to clear the company's internal capital-allocation hurdle? Is the underlying biology still credible? Could another indication work? Could the asset be separated from the company? Would another owner develop it differently? What additional experiment would materially change its value?
Those questions can lead to very different conclusions.
Sometimes the answer will be do nothing.
Sometimes it may be license it, acquire it, reposition it, finance it, separate it or build a new company around it.
Finding that distinction is the job.
AI Is the Tool. Judgment Is the Skill.
We are not looking for someone who describes themselves as an “AI expert” because they know how to prompt ChatGPT.
We want someone who understands that AI can be wrong.
You should know how to push beyond the first answer, interrogate primary sources, cross-reference SEC filings and clinical-trial databases, find contradictory evidence, distinguish published facts from inference and recognize when an apparently exciting opportunity falls apart under scrutiny.
A hallucinated executive, invented email address or nonexistent clinical program isn't research. It is a mistake.
We want someone who understands the difference.
Who We're Looking For
Your academic background could be biotechnology, biology, medicine, pharmacology, finance, economics, business, data science or something less obvious.
Graduate students, MBA candidates, medical students and advanced undergraduates are all potentially interesting.
More important is how you think.
You should be intensely curious about science and business simultaneously. You should enjoy discovering obscure information, connecting unrelated facts and pursuing questions that don't have obvious answers.
If you see:
“Company reduces workforce 40% and prioritizes three clinical programs”
your immediate reaction should be:
“What happened to everything else?”
If you read:
“Phase II trial misses primary endpoint but demonstrates statistically significant activity in a prespecified subgroup”
you should want to know:
“Which subgroup, why, and does anyone else care?”
If a pharmaceutical company returns the rights to an asset after spending $100 million developing it, you should wonder:
“What do they know, what does the biotech know, and what might everybody be overlooking?”
That's the mentality we're looking for.
You Will Work With Real Opportunities
This is not an academic exercise.
Interesting findings can move directly into Harrison Hayes' corporate-development process and potentially become strategic advisory, licensing, M&A or principal-investment opportunities.
Harrison Hayes already operates across asset identification, screening, licensing, M&A, strategic advisory, commercial diligence and portfolio strategy.
The extern/intern will help us explore how far AI can extend that capability.
The larger question behind the position is:
Can we build an intelligence system that identifies scientific and transactional opportunities before they become conventional investment-banking opportunities?
We think we can.
We're looking for someone who wants to help prove it.
To Apply
Send your résumé along with a brief note explaining how you use AI for serious research.
But there is a better way to get our attention.
Find us an opportunity.
Identify one pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical-device or digital-health asset that you believe Harrison Hayes should be looking at right now.
Tell us what happened, why the obvious interpretation may be incomplete, who owns the asset, what you would investigate next, and why there might be a transaction hiding inside the situation.
Keep it to one page.
If it's something we haven't already found, you'll have our attention. Summary
We are seeking a motivated and dynamic AI Corporate Development Extern / Intern to join our innovative team. This role offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in strategic corporate initiatives, mergers and acquisitions, financial analysis, and stakeholder management within the fast-evolving artificial intelligence industry. As an integral part of our corporate development efforts, you will contribute to evaluating potential growth opportunities, supporting transaction processes, and assisting with strategic planning activities. This paid internship is designed for individuals eager to develop their expertise in finance, strategic management, and AI-driven business expansion while working alongside seasoned professionals.
Responsibilities
- Assist in conducting quantitative financial analysis and valuation modeling to evaluate potential mergers, acquisitions, or strategic partnerships.
- Support the development of financial projection models and cash flow analyses to inform decision-making processes.
- Contribute to due diligence activities related to M&A transactions, including reviewing financial statements and preparing reports.
- Participate in stakeholder management by preparing presentations and communicating insights effectively with executive teams.
- Aid in strategic planning initiatives by analyzing market trends, competitive landscapes, and industry benchmarks.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on project management tasks related to corporate finance activities.
- Help prepare documentation for internal audits, technical accounting reviews, and compliance requirements.
Skills
- Strong foundation in financial statement preparation, accounting principles (GAAP), and technical accounting concepts.
- Proficiency in financial modeling, valuation modeling, and developing financial projection models.
- Experience with M&A financial due diligence, investment banking processes, and private equity transactions.
- Excellent verbal communication skills for presenting complex analyses clearly to executives and stakeholders.
- Ability to manage multiple projects efficiently with strong organizational and project management skills.
- Knowledge of financial software tools and presentation software such as PowerPoint or similar platforms.
- Demonstrated understanding of corporate finance concepts including budgeting, forecasting, cash flow analysis, and internal audits.
- Familiarity with quantitative analysis techniques used in equity research and strategic management contexts.
This internship provides an exceptional platform for aspiring finance professionals interested in AI-driven corporate growth strategies. Join us to develop your skills in a fast-paced environment where innovation meets strategic execution!
Work Location: Remote
Harrison Hayes | Life Sciences Investment Banking & Strategic Advisory
New York / Hybrid / Remote
Harrison Hayes is looking for an unusually resourceful AI Corporate Development Extern/Intern to work directly with senior leadership at the intersection of artificial intelligence, biotechnology, pharmaceutical strategy, investment banking and corporate development.
This is not a conventional internship.
The assignment is deceptively simple:
Use AI to find valuable life-sciences opportunities before everyone else finds them.
Harrison Hayes is a specialized life-sciences investment banking and strategic advisory firm with experience across M&A, licensing, strategic advisory, capital formation, royalty monetization and transaction-related diligence. The firm has advised on more than $25 billion in life-sciences transactions.
We are developing a new AI-enabled approach to opportunity identification and corporate development. We want someone smart, skeptical and slightly obsessive to help us build it.
What You'll Do
You will use ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and other AI and research tools to continuously interrogate the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical-device and digital-health landscape.
Your work may include:
Identifying deprioritized, discontinued, non-core and capital-stranded therapeutic assets
Finding clinical programs where a failed endpoint may conceal a different development opportunity
Tracking pipeline restructurings, layoffs, strategic reviews and portfolio-prioritization decisions
Identifying assets available for licensing, divestiture or alternative financing
Finding returned rights following terminated pharmaceutical partnerships
Monitoring clinical-trial results, FDA and EMA developments, SEC filings, earnings calls and scientific publications
Identifying biotechnology companies approaching critical financing or strategic inflection points
Researching potential acquisition, licensing, Build-to-Buy and asset-separation opportunities
Mapping potential buyers, sellers, licensors, licensees and strategic partners
Identifying the executives actually responsible for each opportunity
Verifying contact information and building highly targeted outreach
Developing concise investment theses explaining why Harrison Hayes should investigate an opportunity now
Using AI to uncover connections between scientific evidence, corporate strategy, capital constraints and transaction potential that may not be obvious from conventional screening
You will not simply create lists.
You will be expected to answer the harder question:
Why is this an opportunity?
The Work Gets Interesting Quickly
A biotech company announces that it is discontinuing a Phase II program.
Most people record that the drug failed.
We want you to ask:
Did the drug fail, or did the trial fail?
Was the endpoint wrong? Was the population too broad? Is there a responder phenotype buried in the data? Did the program simply fail to clear the company's internal capital-allocation hurdle? Is the underlying biology still credible? Could another indication work? Could the asset be separated from the company? Would another owner develop it differently? What additional experiment would materially change its value?
Those questions can lead to very different conclusions.
Sometimes the answer will be do nothing.
Sometimes it may be license it, acquire it, reposition it, finance it, separate it or build a new company around it.
Finding that distinction is the job.
AI Is the Tool. Judgment Is the Skill.
We are not looking for someone who describes themselves as an “AI expert” because they know how to prompt ChatGPT.
We want someone who understands that AI can be wrong.
You should know how to push beyond the first answer, interrogate primary sources, cross-reference SEC filings and clinical-trial databases, find contradictory evidence, distinguish published facts from inference and recognize when an apparently exciting opportunity falls apart under scrutiny.
A hallucinated executive, invented email address or nonexistent clinical program isn't research. It is a mistake.
We want someone who understands the difference.
Who We're Looking For
Your academic background could be biotechnology, biology, medicine, pharmacology, finance, economics, business, data science or something less obvious.
Graduate students, MBA candidates, medical students and advanced undergraduates are all potentially interesting.
More important is how you think.
You should be intensely curious about science and business simultaneously. You should enjoy discovering obscure information, connecting unrelated facts and pursuing questions that don't have obvious answers.
If you see:
“Company reduces workforce 40% and prioritizes three clinical programs”
your immediate reaction should be:
“What happened to everything else?”
If you read:
“Phase II trial misses primary endpoint but demonstrates statistically significant activity in a prespecified subgroup”
you should want to know:
“Which subgroup, why, and does anyone else care?”
If a pharmaceutical company returns the rights to an asset after spending $100 million developing it, you should wonder:
“What do they know, what does the biotech know, and what might everybody be overlooking?”
That's the mentality we're looking for.
You Will Work With Real Opportunities
This is not an academic exercise.
Interesting findings can move directly into Harrison Hayes' corporate-development process and potentially become strategic advisory, licensing, M&A or principal-investment opportunities.
Harrison Hayes already operates across asset identification, screening, licensing, M&A, strategic advisory, commercial diligence and portfolio strategy.
The extern/intern will help us explore how far AI can extend that capability.
The larger question behind the position is:
Can we build an intelligence system that identifies scientific and transactional opportunities before they become conventional investment-banking opportunities?
We think we can.
We're looking for someone who wants to help prove it.
To Apply
Send your résumé along with a brief note explaining how you use AI for serious research.
But there is a better way to get our attention.
Find us an opportunity.
Identify one pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical-device or digital-health asset that you believe Harrison Hayes should be looking at right now.
Tell us what happened, why the obvious interpretation may be incomplete, who owns the asset, what you would investigate next, and why there might be a transaction hiding inside the situation.
Keep it to one page.
If it's something we haven't already found, you'll have our attention. Summary
We are seeking a motivated and dynamic AI Corporate Development Extern / Intern to join our innovative team. This role offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in strategic corporate initiatives, mergers and acquisitions, financial analysis, and stakeholder management within the fast-evolving artificial intelligence industry. As an integral part of our corporate development efforts, you will contribute to evaluating potential growth opportunities, supporting transaction processes, and assisting with strategic planning activities. This paid internship is designed for individuals eager to develop their expertise in finance, strategic management, and AI-driven business expansion while working alongside seasoned professionals.
Responsibilities
- Assist in conducting quantitative financial analysis and valuation modeling to evaluate potential mergers, acquisitions, or strategic partnerships.
- Support the development of financial projection models and cash flow analyses to inform decision-making processes.
- Contribute to due diligence activities related to M&A transactions, including reviewing financial statements and preparing reports.
- Participate in stakeholder management by preparing presentations and communicating insights effectively with executive teams.
- Aid in strategic planning initiatives by analyzing market trends, competitive landscapes, and industry benchmarks.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on project management tasks related to corporate finance activities.
- Help prepare documentation for internal audits, technical accounting reviews, and compliance requirements.
Skills
- Strong foundation in financial statement preparation, accounting principles (GAAP), and technical accounting concepts.
- Proficiency in financial modeling, valuation modeling, and developing financial projection models.
- Experience with M&A financial due diligence, investment banking processes, and private equity transactions.
- Excellent verbal communication skills for presenting complex analyses clearly to executives and stakeholders.
- Ability to manage multiple projects efficiently with strong organizational and project management skills.
- Knowledge of financial software tools and presentation software such as PowerPoint or similar platforms.
- Demonstrated understanding of corporate finance concepts including budgeting, forecasting, cash flow analysis, and internal audits.
- Familiarity with quantitative analysis techniques used in equity research and strategic management contexts.
This internship provides an exceptional platform for aspiring finance professionals interested in AI-driven corporate growth strategies. Join us to develop your skills in a fast-paced environment where innovation meets strategic execution!
Work Location: Remote
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Who's Hiring
- Thermo Fisher Scientific20
- JPMorganChase9
- PNC Financial Services8
- Amazon7
- Botrista5
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software17
- Chemicals & Materials5
- Manufacturing4
- Electronics & Hardware4
- Banking & Financial Services4
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in corporate development manager jobs.
- 5 or more years of experience in investment banking, private equity, or corporate development
- Demonstrated experience managing or executing M&A transactions end to end
- Financial modeling proficiency including DCF, LBO, and accretion-dilution analysis
- Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, business, or a related field
- Experience coordinating cross-functional diligence with legal, finance, and operations teams
- MBA or CFA designation preferred for senior or director-level roles
Tips for Your Corporate Development Manager Job Search
Quantify your deal experience precisely
List every transaction you've touched by deal type, size tier, and your specific role, buyside, sellside, integration lead, or diligence analyst. Hiring managers in corporate development discount vague deal exposure and reward candidates who can describe their exact contribution to each transaction.
Tailor your resume to the acquirer profile
A strategic acquirer hiring for bolt-on targets needs different skills than a conglomerate running divestitures. Read each company's recent press releases and investor presentations before applying so your resume mirrors their actual deal activity and strategic priorities.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists corporate development manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a personal deal thesis for interviews
Most corporate development interviews include a live case where you pitch an acquisition target. Walk in with one researched target that fits the company's stated strategy, supported by a rough valuation logic and a clear strategic rationale. Generic pitches fail this round.
Negotiate scope, not just title, when accepting
Corporate development roles vary widely in whether you own the full deal cycle or hand off at LOI. Before accepting, clarify your authority over sourcing, diligence, and integration handoff, since these boundaries affect your resume story for the next role.
Target companies by deal cadence, not just industry
Filter your job search by companies that close two or more transactions per year, not just those in attractive sectors. Frequent acquirers give you deal reps faster, which compounds your experience and marketability within three years.
Corporate Development Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most corporate development managers?
The companies hiring the most corporate development managers right now include Thermo Fisher Scientific, JPMorganChase, and PNC Financial Services, with the largest share of openings in California, New York, and Massachusetts, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Demand is highest at companies with active acquisition pipelines in technology, healthcare, and financial services.
How many corporate development manager jobs are remote?
About 61% of corporate development manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of September 2026, though the share varies by company size and deal volume. Roles focused on financial modeling, market analysis, and pipeline research tend to offer more location flexibility than positions that require frequent in-person diligence, board presentations, or integration leadership.
How do you become a corporate development manager?
Most corporate development managers start in investment banking, management consulting, or private equity, where they build financial modeling and transaction execution skills. From there, the typical path is joining a corporate development team as an analyst or associate, taking ownership of progressively larger deals, and moving into a manager role once you've led diligence or integration on multiple transactions independently.
Can you break into corporate development without direct M&A experience?
You can enter corporate development from adjacent roles if you can demonstrate deal-adjacent skills like financial modeling, competitive analysis, or partnership structuring. Candidates from FP&A, strategy consulting, or venture capital have made the transition by highlighting specific projects involving valuation work, build-versus-buy analysis, or market entry assessments that mirror what corporate development teams do day to day.
What does the corporate development manager interview process look like?
The process typically runs three to four rounds. An initial screen with HR or a recruiter is followed by a technical interview covering financial modeling and deal structuring, then a case study or take-home where you pitch an acquisition target or evaluate a hypothetical transaction. Final rounds usually involve presentations to senior leadership and conversations about cultural fit, strategic judgment, and how you've managed cross-functional stakeholders during past deals.
Where can I find and apply to corporate development manager jobs?
You can find and apply to corporate development manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the roles available, find the ones that fit your experience and target industry, and apply directly to each listing without leaving the platform.
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