<div class="content-intro"><p>Mission Lane is combining the power of data, technology, and exceptional service to pave a clear way forward for millions of people on the path to financial success. By attracting top talent and leveraging cutting-edge technology, we’re enabling people to unlock real financial progress. Sound like a mission you can get behind?</p></div><p>We're looking for a Vice President, Corporate Development to shape our M&A and partnership strategy, as well as ensure that Mission Lane is poised to take advantage of potential exit paths including potential acquisitions and / or IPO. This position reports to the Chief Strategy Officer.</p> <p><strong>The impact you'll make:</strong></p> <p>Mission Lane is focused on providing consumers with lower cost access to credit. Continuing to do this for an increasing number of customers and in a more impactful way requires capital, strategic bets, and disciplined execution. This role impacts all three: leading public market readiness efforts, developing the company's narrative and strategic positioning for external stakeholders, building an M&A and partnerships strategy, and advising our card business.</p> <p><strong>What You'll Own:</strong></p> <ul> <li>M&A and partnership strategy: Lead Mission Lane's M&A and partnership strategy. Continually assess the market to decide which businesses are worth acquiring, partnering with, or building in-house, direct the outside advisors and bankers who support that work, and lead execution end to end when an opportunity moves forward, from diligence through negotiation. </li> <li>Exit readiness and coordination: Support Mission Lane's path toward a potential exit, which may include an IPO, an acquisition, or another outcome, by acting as the internal aggregator across partners engaged in that work, keeping efforts coordinated and nothing duplicated.</li> <li>Card business advisory: Serve as a senior advisor to parts of the core credit card business, helping identify gaps and opportunities, shape long-term strategy, and support the team directly when needed.</li> <li>Readiness to step into a leadership role over any new product, business line, or acquisition that grows out of this work, bringing the operating credibility of someone who has actually run a credit business.</li> <li>Executive and Board communication: prepare the materials and recommendations senior leadership relies on for major strategic decisions.</li> </ul> <p><strong>You'll thrive in this role if:</strong></p> <ul> <li>You've spent time inside a PE firm, strategy firm, investment bank, or financial markets role, and you're just as comfortable directing an outside advisor as you are doing the analysis yourself.</li> <li>You can walk into a room with the Board or the executive team and leave them with more clarity than they walked in with.</li> <li>You get results in a matrixed organization of consultants and stakeholders who don't report to you.</li> <li>You get energized by an open-ended problem that doesn't come with an existing playbook.</li> <li>You've built a track record of landing in unfamiliar situations, ramping up fast, and shipping real outcomes.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Minimum Qualifications:</strong></p> <ul> <li>10+ years of experience in strategy consulting, investment banking, or financial markets.</li> <li>Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to present to and inspire confidence among senior leaders and Boards of Directors.</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to lead and deliver results through influence in a matrixed organization, without direct authority over every stakeholder.</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to operate effectively amid ambiguity and structure open-ended, white-space problems.</li> <li>A track record of stepping into unfamiliar situations, ramping up quickly, and driving measurable impact.</li> <li>Experience directing the work of outside consultants and advisors.</li> <li>A demonstrated willingness to execute directly, taking initiatives through to implementation rather than stopping at a recommendation.</li> <li>Based remotely, with the flexibility to travel ~6-8+ times per year for high quality in-person collaboration with the executive team, Board, and outside advisors.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Preferred Qualifications:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Leadership experience in a credit or lending business, especially one serving a subprime or near-prime customer base.</li> <li>Experience working within a private equity firm, including preparing portfolio companies for exit.</li> <li>Direct experience supporting a company through IPO readiness or another public-offering process.</li> <li>Experience leading or directly executing M&A transactions from origination through post-close integration in a lending or financial services business.</li> <li>Established relationships across the credit card, consumer lending, or broader fintech industry.</li> <li>Experience operating in a regulated financial services environment.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Compensation:</strong></p> <p>Annual full-time starting base salary range: $247,000 - $292,000</p> <p>This role is eligible for additional compensation in the forms of participation in our annual incentive and equity programs.</p> <p>Pay is based on factors such as work experience, education, certification(s), training, skills, and competencies relate