About Inspira Education

Inspira Education is one of the fastest-growing edtech startups in the US. As the world’s leading network of top admissions consultants in medical, legal, business, and college studies, we’re building software and services in one place—disrupting long-entrenched institutions with products and experiences that strive to provide an equal platform for candidates from diverse backgrounds worldwide. We help college applicants and parents with the highest quality content, tutoring, and advising services for their college and graduate school applications.

We believe that diversity drives learning. To meet our mission, we encourage, support, and celebrate different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds. As a fully distributed (remote) team, we challenge one another to find the most effective way to empower learners, teachers, and parents. Your name, race, religion, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and age are not barriers; they are why we want to work with you. We invite talented and creative candidates who value the importance of nurturing a student’s boundless curiosity to join us on this journey.

We operate globally across five brands - Inspira Futures, Inspira Advantage, Quad Education, Juris Education, and Foundation Learning. As one of the fastest growing edtech firms in the world, we are backed by some of the leading venture capital firms and investors in the world including Craft Ventures, Jeff Fluhr (Founder of Stubhub), David Sacks (Former COO of PayPal and Founder of Yammer), Kygo (World renowned DJ), among others.

The Role

We are currently seeking a Director of Business Development specializing in Mergers and Acquisitions. This individual will shepherd the efforts to secure new business deals by leveraging their expertise in due diligence, business valuation, lead management, and top-of-funnel campaigns. The Director of Business Development will focus on identifying and pursuing qualified acquisition targets while aligning with the company's strategic, financial, and cultural objectives based on our mission, vision, and values. This role can be located anywhere in the United States or Canada.

Responsibilities

• Gathers, oversees, screens, and evaluates M&A and Business Development opportunities
• Support corporate development and founders to design and execute strategies for the acquisition of education companies across various geographies. Drive internal M&A decision-making process
• Develop and execute strategies to achieve acquisition targets. Actively involved across multiple stages of the M&A process including identifying and qualifying sales targets and nurturing leads – Proactively initiating and maintaining relationships with owners of education businesses by email, phone, LinkedIn, conferences/trade shows, and in-person meetings. Obtaining high-level financial and operational information about target companies
• Guide and support the growth of the M&A pipeline process – Develop tailored messaging that engages critical decision-makers. Generating and reporting on prospects, setting up qualified appointments, and moving opportunities through the M&A pipeline
• Prepare presentations using a rationally reasoned and data-supported approach to assist leaders with the M&A decision-making process
• Responding to ad-hoc requests in a high-pressure and time-sensitive environment – Conducting research to identify and map out potentially attractive markets to pursue and software companies to acquire. Performing any other reasonable duties as required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ of experience in management consulting, M&A, or role with highly analytical and strategic responsibilities within business development
• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or a Business-related major. Master of Business Administration strongly preferred
• Ability to travel across the U.S.
• Exceptional networking, relationship-building, interpersonal, and influencing skills
• Strong financial and business acumen. Adept with financial modeling, valuation, and financial terms and concepts. Excellent problem-solving, and sales skills
• Experience working in a small, high-growth team and a background in software or technology is an asset
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Word). Familiarity with Salesforce is an asset
• Demonstrated project management skills and experience guiding and motivating a team of junior staff to achieve targets
• Strong communication skills. Confident in presenting to C-suite executives and business owners
• Professional attitude and a resolute work ethic. Ability to work solely and in a collaborative team-oriented environment

Why you’ll love Inspira

• Amazing people with a great vision and values
• Remote-first team across the US and Canada
• 100% coverage on health, vision, and dental coverage
• Flexible Paid-time Off
• Learning and Development Budget for Employees
• Retirement Savings Plans
• Diversity and inclusion programs that promote employee resource groups like OWN (Outreach Women's Network), AAPI, Rainbow (LGBTQIA+), Gender+, LatinX, Black Excellence, Disability Community, and Veterans

Interested in learning more about Inspira Education, please visit https://www.inspiraeducationgroup.com/.

Inspira Education Group does not discriminate based on race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other reason prohibited by law in providing employment opportunities and benefits.