# Investment & Corporate Development Lead

> AJAIA · Fort Lauderdale, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-06-23

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

**Position Overview**

LaunchEd is an education-focused incubator and accelerator created by RDI to identify, support, and scale innovative companies serving the PK-12 market. As our portfolio grows, we are expanding our investment capability to evaluate, structure, and execute investments, partnerships, and acquisitions that strengthen the education ecosystem.

As the Investment & Corporate Development Lead, you will lead the financial evaluation and execution of strategic transactions across LaunchEd's portfolio. Working closely with the Founder/CEO and senior leadership, you will build financial models, structure investments and acquisitions, conduct due diligence, and guide transactions from initial opportunity through closing.

This is a high-impact role for an investment professional who enjoys combining analytical rigor with entrepreneurial thinking to help build and grow innovative education companies.

  
**Key Responsibilities:**

Deal Structuring & Financial Analysis

-   Lead financial evaluation of investment opportunities incubator and accelerator participants.
-   Build and maintain financial models to evaluate investments, acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships.
-   Support decision-making with valuation frameworks and scenario analyses.
-   Structure transactions including minority investments, majority acquisitions, recapitalizations, and joint ventures.
-   Analyze complex financial arrangements and help leadership understand the risks, economics, and potential outcomes of proposed deals.

Transaction Leadership

-   Manage the end-to-end execution of transactions from initial evaluation to closing.
-   Coordinate financial, operational, and market diligence for prospective investments or acquisitions.
-   Work closely with legal counsel to help translate business terms into investment agreements and transaction documents.
-   Participate in negotiations with founders, investors, and counterparties.
-   Support the structuring and execution of special situations such as investor buyouts, recapitalizations, or strategic mergers.

Strategic Investment Support

-   Evaluate strategic opportunities connected to the organization's ecosystem, including potential acquisitions or partnerships that could strengthen the platform.
-   Assist RDI leadership and the founder/CEO in analyzing proprietary opportunities that arise within the education sector.
-   Support the development of repeatable approaches for structuring investments as LaunchEd continues to expand its portfolio of companies.

## Requirements

-   5–10 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, corporate development, or a similar transaction-focused role.
-   Strong financial modeling and valuation skills with experience analyzing complex business transactions.
-   Experience supporting or leading acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, or other strategic transactions.
-   Ability to translate complex financial structures into clear explanations for non-financial stakeholders.
-   Experience working with legal and financial advisors during transaction execution.

**Personal Attributes**

-   Entrepreneurial mindset with interest in building a growing investment capability inside an innovation platform.

-   Strong analytical thinker with practical deal judgment.

-   Comfortable operating with ambiguity while structuring new types of transactions.

-   Collaborative and able to work closely with senior leadership on complex strategic decisions.

## Benefits

-   Competitive base salary + performance incentives
-   Professional development opportunities

## Apply

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