Description
We are seeking a Vice President of Business Development to lead KoBold's business development efforts to secure compelling exploration rights, development stage assets, and mining assets held by other parties.
The successful candidate will lead a team that will execute many of the deals, lead many leads themselves, and for select transactions, support the CEO, President, Africa CEO, or COO in deal-making. This position will report to the KoBold Chief Operating Officer.
Key responsibilities include:
- Representing KoBold with counterparties, developing a deep understanding of the company's operating principles, and creating relationships that positively reflect on the company.
- Coordinating technical underwriting, understanding the technical underpinnings of each opportunity, and approaching technical underwriting from a first-principles basis.
- Developing and communicating commercial positions, building commercial offerings, and negotiating positions based on technical underwriting cases.
- Reviewing contracts, working with KoBold's legal team, and managing negotiation of commercial matters required to complete transactions.
- Conducting due diligence, managing risk-based due diligence, and overseeing preparation of internal investment memoranda.
- Cultivating and managing commercial relationships, identifying key motivations behind counterparties, and structuring effective deals.
The ideal candidate will have:
- A BA/BS in the physical sciences, engineering, mathematics, economics, or a related field.
- 10+ years of business development experience, preferably within the natural resource and/or infrastructure project development sectors.
- Experience with economic modeling.
- A strong interest in and/or strong intuition for the physical sciences, and a desire to understand the technical underpinnings of commercial transactions.
This is a full-time, exempt position with a salary range of $275,000-$350,000 and meaningful equity incentives.