# SVP, M&A

**Company**: Dow Jones
**Location**: NYC
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $300,000 - $430,000
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a senior executive to lead Dow Jones’ M&A strategy. The SVP, M&A will serve as the primary driver of inorganic growth across the enterprise, identifying and executing acquisitions, investments, and strategic transactions that accelerate Dow Jones’ long-term strategic priorities.

You will:

- Lead Dow Jones enterprise M&A strategy and execution, aligning inorganic growth initiatives to the company’s strategic priorities.

- Own and manage the enterprise deal pipeline, proactively identifying acquisition, investment, and partnership opportunities that strengthen Dow Jones’ market position and capabilities.

- Serve as a strategic advisor to the CEO, CFO, and business leaders on growth opportunities, market dynamics, competitive positioning, and portfolio strategy.

- Develop a disciplined operating framework for evaluating opportunities, prioritizing investments, and ensuring alignment between strategic rationale and financial outcomes.

- Lead all phases of transactions, including opportunity sourcing and evaluation, deal structuring and negotiation, due diligence, governance, execution, and close.

- Evaluate business models, competitive positioning, customer value propositions, revenue quality, and operational performance to inform investment decisions and transaction strategy.

- Structure and negotiate transactions that align strategic objectives with financial discipline and long-term value creation.

- Establish clear success metrics and accountability frameworks to measure transaction performance, strategic impact, and value realization post-close.

- Define integration strategies early in the transaction lifecycle to ensure alignment between the deal thesis, operating model, strategic objectives, and long-term value creation goals.

- Partner with business and functional leaders to lead post-acquisition integration planning and execution across operational, commercial, technology, and organizational workstreams.

- Establish clear governance structures, success metrics, and accountability frameworks to measure transaction performance, synergy realization, and overall business impact.

- Develop and maintain strong relationships across the M&A and investment ecosystem, including founders, CEOs, private equity and venture capital firms, investment banks, strategic partners, and industry advisors.

- Build a robust external network to generate proprietary deal flow, surface emerging market opportunities, and strengthen Dow Jones’ position within the broader media, technology, data, and AI landscape.

- Engage regularly with market participants, investors, and operators to identify opportunities for acquisitions, partnerships, strategic investments, and capability expansion.

- Partner with senior leadership to assess market shifts, disruptive technologies, and competitive threats that may impact long-term portfolio strategy and growth objectives.

- Represent Dow Jones externally in strategic discussions, industry conferences, investor meetings, and partner engagements.

- Build strong partnerships across Finance, Strategy, Product, Technology, Legal, Editorial, and Commercial teams to ensure alignment and execution excellence.

- Influence senior stakeholders across a complex, matrixed organization to drive alignment on priorities, investment decisions, and integration outcomes.

- Foster a culture of analytical rigor, strategic thinking, collaboration, and accountability.

You have:

- 15+ years of experience leading complex M&A transactions and strategic growth initiatives as a senior corporate development, investment banking, private equity, or strategic finance executive.

- Demonstrated success executing acquisitions, investments, and strategic transactions,ideally within information services, though experience in media, technology, SaaS, data, or adjacent industries is also highly valued.

- Strong financial and strategic acumen, including expertise in valuation, financial modeling, deal structuring, investment analysis, and synergy assessment.

- Proven ability to lead complex negotiations and influence senior executives and external stakeholders.

- Experience managing cross-functional diligence and integration efforts across global organizations.

- Deep understanding of technology, data, AI, and digital business models.

- Strong executive presence with the ability to operate effectively with CEOs, Boards, investors, and business leaders.

- Proven ability to balance strategic vision with operational discipline and execution rigor.

## Skills

### Required
- M&A
- strategic growth
- investment banking
- private equity
- strategic finance
- valuation
- financial modeling
- deal structuring
- investment analysis
- synergy assessment
- technology
- data
- AI
- digital business models

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