Corporate Development Manager Jobs in California
Corporate Development Manager jobs in California are among the most active in the country, concentrated in technology, entertainment, financial services, and life sciences across a seniority range from analyst-level to senior director. The heaviest hiring happens in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and San Diego, where companies like Apple, Google, and Wells Fargo maintain major operations and regularly seek corporate development managers for M&A execution, strategic partnerships, and venture investment. In-demand specialties include technology-driven M&A, strategic alliance structuring, and venture and growth equity transactions. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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About Intuit
Intuit believes in the power of the individual. The power to do more. To make more. To be more.
We believe in the people who do things – the hat jugglers, the to-do list gurus, those who love getting it done faster, better, and more efficiently than ever before. Whether that's balancing the household budget, running a business, or paying taxes.
We believe in these people because we are these people. We thrive on action – and results. And by making things simpler, we all get more out of doing what we love. We're innovators and have been at it for more than three decades. And we don't stand still.
As the world evolves, so do we – inventing new solutions to solve important problems, perfecting those solutions, and delighting our customers. In short: We’re on a mission to power prosperity around the world.
We started small in 1983 with Quicken personal finance software, simplifying a common household dilemma: balancing the family checkbook. Today, Intuit is a leading provider of fintech solutions for consumers, SMBs, and the self-employed. You probably know us by our flagship products, TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, and Mailchimp which serve over 90 million consumers and 20 million small businesses and self-employed across North America, Europe, Australia, and around the world.
Just as we transformed before, from DOS to the web, and to the cloud and mobile, we are evolving again to deliver personalized experiences on a trusted, open platform that helps create indispensable connections.
Supporting our mission, our strategy is to become an AI-driven expert platform and deliver three core benefits to our customers:
- More money - helping put more money in the pockets of our customers
- No Work - eliminating work and drudgery so they can focus on what matters to them
- Complete Confidence - ensuring that they have complete confidence in every financial decision they make through our do-it-yourself or live expert support platforms
As the way we live and work evolves, we adapt our strategy to meet and lead these changes. We are committed to creating new and easier ways for consumers and businesses to tackle life's financial chores, giving them more time to live their lives and run their businesses. As our businesses and product lines grow beyond finance and accounting into new areas, we will build on our heritage of innovation. That's not just our history. It's our future.
About Corporate Strategy and Development:
Intuit’s Corporate Strategy and Development (CS&D) team is focused on defining and accelerating Intuit’s top strategic priorities. The team works on direction-setting strategy and acquisition initiatives at the corporate level and across all of Intuit’s businesses. The team advises and collaborates with Intuit’s most senior leaders, executive team, and Board of Directors to define both the company’s overall strategy as well as the strategy for specific business lines - with a strong focus on driving growth. The team is responsible for developing the company’s strategic plans, anticipating opportunities and risks, and prioritizing initiatives and investments. CS&D projects drive major investment and resource allocation to build businesses and service lines. Projects are team-based, highly analytical in nature, and include close collaboration with senior executives from across the company. The team is seen as a key source of talent for leadership roles across Intuit. We are a tight-knit team that prides ourselves on being stronger together.
Senior Principal, Corporate Strategy
Come join Intuit’s Corporate Strategy and Development team as a Senior Principal focused on growth strategy. We are looking for creative problem solvers and people leaders to join our team. As a Senior Principal, you will lead teams that seek to identify and realize new growth opportunities for Intuit. You will lead teams to execute rigorous research and analysis, develop recommendations, and communicate strategic perspectives and recommendations to drive C-suite, CEO and/or Board level strategy decisions.
It is essential that the individual selected for this position be able to quickly establish rapport, credibility, trust, and respect throughout the organization, and be viewed as a team player. The CS&D team is viewed as a source of leaders within Intuit and the individual will be expected to employ exceptional leadership skills and a learning mindset to be successful.
The Senior Principal role offers excellent opportunities to:
- Impact and drive company level strategy and the agendas of senior leaders, the CEO, and Board of Directors
- Develop expertise in a variety of businesses (Consumer, B2B) and functions
- Develop as a leader and people manager
- Gain significant exposure to senior leaders and career progression to other roles within CS&D and across Intuit
Responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities:
- Structure projects and develop work plans to deliver high priority strategic projects, mostly focused on growth
- Provide thought leadership and set the intellectual agenda for the team
- Lead inclusive problem solving sessions, guiding the team to “crack the case”
- Lead cross-functional strategy and BU teams in the execution of data-driven research and analysis that support growth strategies and decision making
- Author and deliver presentations, plans, and communications, grounded in data and insights
- Communicate and present strategic analyses and findings to C-level executives and BU leaders
- Develop relationships with mid-level and senior BU leaders and stay up to date with current BU strategic plans
- Understand and stay current with the competitive landscape
- Provide coaching and mentorship to help junior team members build out their craft skills
Qualifications
Qualifications:
- 6+ years of total work experience with a top-tier strategy consulting firm or a respected operating company’s strategy function (MBA preferred)
- Proven people leader with 3+ years leading teams of direct reports on high-profile strategic efforts
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills and ability to interact with colleagues at all levels in a peer-like way
- An outstanding ability to analyze problems and apply quantitative and analytical approaches
- Ability to quickly synthesize information and structure a concise, clear presentation of findings to an executive audience
- Excellent written and verbal communications, presentation and facilitation skills
- Experience managing relationships with high-profile business stakeholders in the context of challenging cross-functional/cross-organizational projects
- Strong project management skills
- Passion for excellence and the desire to have a significant impact.
- Openness to an environment of active developmental feedback
The team working model is hybrid, with 2-3 days per week in the Mountain View office.
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Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.
The expected base pay range for this position is:Mountain View $227,000 - $307,000
Overview
About Intuit
Intuit believes in the power of the individual. The power to do more. To make more. To be more.
We believe in the people who do things – the hat jugglers, the to-do list gurus, those who love getting it done faster, better, and more efficiently than ever before. Whether that's balancing the household budget, running a business, or paying taxes.
We believe in these people because we are these people. We thrive on action – and results. And by making things simpler, we all get more out of doing what we love. We're innovators and have been at it for more than three decades. And we don't stand still.
As the world evolves, so do we – inventing new solutions to solve important problems, perfecting those solutions, and delighting our customers. In short: We’re on a mission to power prosperity around the world.
We started small in 1983 with Quicken personal finance software, simplifying a common household dilemma: balancing the family checkbook. Today, Intuit is a leading provider of fintech solutions for consumers, SMBs, and the self-employed. You probably know us by our flagship products, TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, and Mailchimp which serve over 90 million consumers and 20 million small businesses and self-employed across North America, Europe, Australia, and around the world.
Just as we transformed before, from DOS to the web, and to the cloud and mobile, we are evolving again to deliver personalized experiences on a trusted, open platform that helps create indispensable connections.
Supporting our mission, our strategy is to become an AI-driven expert platform and deliver three core benefits to our customers:
- More money - helping put more money in the pockets of our customers
- No Work - eliminating work and drudgery so they can focus on what matters to them
- Complete Confidence - ensuring that they have complete confidence in every financial decision they make through our do-it-yourself or live expert support platforms
As the way we live and work evolves, we adapt our strategy to meet and lead these changes. We are committed to creating new and easier ways for consumers and businesses to tackle life's financial chores, giving them more time to live their lives and run their businesses. As our businesses and product lines grow beyond finance and accounting into new areas, we will build on our heritage of innovation. That's not just our history. It's our future.
About Corporate Strategy and Development:
Intuit’s Corporate Strategy and Development (CS&D) team is focused on defining and accelerating Intuit’s top strategic priorities. The team works on direction-setting strategy and acquisition initiatives at the corporate level and across all of Intuit’s businesses. The team advises and collaborates with Intuit’s most senior leaders, executive team, and Board of Directors to define both the company’s overall strategy as well as the strategy for specific business lines - with a strong focus on driving growth. The team is responsible for developing the company’s strategic plans, anticipating opportunities and risks, and prioritizing initiatives and investments. CS&D projects drive major investment and resource allocation to build businesses and service lines. Projects are team-based, highly analytical in nature, and include close collaboration with senior executives from across the company. The team is seen as a key source of talent for leadership roles across Intuit. We are a tight-knit team that prides ourselves on being stronger together.
Senior Principal, Corporate Strategy
Come join Intuit’s Corporate Strategy and Development team as a Senior Principal focused on growth strategy. We are looking for creative problem solvers and people leaders to join our team. As a Senior Principal, you will lead teams that seek to identify and realize new growth opportunities for Intuit. You will lead teams to execute rigorous research and analysis, develop recommendations, and communicate strategic perspectives and recommendations to drive C-suite, CEO and/or Board level strategy decisions.
It is essential that the individual selected for this position be able to quickly establish rapport, credibility, trust, and respect throughout the organization, and be viewed as a team player. The CS&D team is viewed as a source of leaders within Intuit and the individual will be expected to employ exceptional leadership skills and a learning mindset to be successful.
The Senior Principal role offers excellent opportunities to:
- Impact and drive company level strategy and the agendas of senior leaders, the CEO, and Board of Directors
- Develop expertise in a variety of businesses (Consumer, B2B) and functions
- Develop as a leader and people manager
- Gain significant exposure to senior leaders and career progression to other roles within CS&D and across Intuit
Responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities:
- Structure projects and develop work plans to deliver high priority strategic projects, mostly focused on growth
- Provide thought leadership and set the intellectual agenda for the team
- Lead inclusive problem solving sessions, guiding the team to “crack the case”
- Lead cross-functional strategy and BU teams in the execution of data-driven research and analysis that support growth strategies and decision making
- Author and deliver presentations, plans, and communications, grounded in data and insights
- Communicate and present strategic analyses and findings to C-level executives and BU leaders
- Develop relationships with mid-level and senior BU leaders and stay up to date with current BU strategic plans
- Understand and stay current with the competitive landscape
- Provide coaching and mentorship to help junior team members build out their craft skills
Qualifications
Qualifications:
- 6+ years of total work experience with a top-tier strategy consulting firm or a respected operating company’s strategy function (MBA preferred)
- Proven people leader with 3+ years leading teams of direct reports on high-profile strategic efforts
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills and ability to interact with colleagues at all levels in a peer-like way
- An outstanding ability to analyze problems and apply quantitative and analytical approaches
- Ability to quickly synthesize information and structure a concise, clear presentation of findings to an executive audience
- Excellent written and verbal communications, presentation and facilitation skills
- Experience managing relationships with high-profile business stakeholders in the context of challenging cross-functional/cross-organizational projects
- Strong project management skills
- Passion for excellence and the desire to have a significant impact.
- Openness to an environment of active developmental feedback
The team working model is hybrid, with 2-3 days per week in the Mountain View office.
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Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.
The expected base pay range for this position is:Mountain View $227,000 - $307,000
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- Electronics & Hardware3
- Retail1
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What California Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in corporate development manager jobs across California.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, business, or economics, with MBA strongly preferred by California employers
- Three or more years of experience in investment banking, private equity, or management consulting
- Demonstrated experience leading end-to-end M&A transactions including due diligence and integration
- Financial modeling proficiency in DCF, LBO, and comparable company analysis
- Experience managing cross-functional deal teams across legal, finance, and operations
- Familiarity with California's technology or life sciences sector and its competitive deal landscape
Corporate Development Manager Jobs in California: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a corporate development manager in California?
The most direct path is a bachelor's degree in finance, economics, or business, followed by several years in investment banking, private equity, or strategy consulting before moving into a corporate development role. California employers, particularly in technology and life sciences, strongly favor candidates with an MBA from a recognized program. No state-issued license is required to work as a corporate development manager in California, but CFA designation can strengthen a candidacy.
Which companies hire corporate development managers in California?
Employers hiring corporate development managers in California right now include Intuit, Visa, and Adobe, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. California's deep concentration of technology headquarters, entertainment studios, and biotech companies means corporate development teams here tend to focus on high-velocity M&A and strategic partnership activity year-round.
Which California cities have the most corporate development manager jobs?
San Francisco, San Diego, and Sunnyvale have the most corporate development manager openings in California. The Bay Area's concentration of major technology and venture-backed companies drives the bulk of demand, while Los Angeles draws heavily from entertainment, media, and consumer brands, and San Diego's robust biotech and defense sectors generate steady corporate development hiring of their own.
Are there remote corporate development manager jobs in California?
Yes, and more than many finance roles, since much of the work involves analysis, modeling, and stakeholder communication that translates well to remote settings. About 76% of corporate development manager openings tied to California are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting the broader flexibility technology and financial services employers in the state have extended to senior analytical roles. Deal execution and integration phases, however, still tend to require in-person presence.
How can I get hired as a corporate development manager in California with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry point is a rotational finance or strategy analyst program at a large California technology or healthcare company, where participants gain exposure to M&A and partnerships before moving into a dedicated corporate development role. Companies like Salesforce, Kaiser Permanente, and major Bay Area technology firms run structured associate and rotational programs that regularly feed into corporate development teams. A strong financial modeling portfolio, progress toward a CFA, or an MBA from a California program significantly improves competitiveness for these openings.
Where can I find and apply to corporate development manager jobs in California?
You can find and apply to corporate development manager jobs in California on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings across the state. Search the available roles, find the ones that fit your background and target location, and apply directly to the employers posting them.
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