Role Overview

LiveU is seeking a Director of Business Development to lead corporate development initiatives with a strong focus on mergers and acquisitions, alongside select strategic partnerships. This is a senior, business-oriented, externally facing role responsible for sourcing, evaluating, and executing inorganic growth opportunities that align with LiveU’s long-term strategy.

The ideal candidate brings a blend of M&A experience, strategic thinking, and deep familiarity with the technology ecosystem. This role works closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams across product, finance, legal, and go-to-market.

Key Responsibilities

M&A and Corporate Development (Primary Focus)

• Proactively source and evaluate acquisition targets across broadcast, media, public safety technology, including real time video, visual intelligence, critical communications, transmission, cloud video, and digital media.
• Lead initial strategic and commercial screening of potential targets, including market positioning, product fit, and GTM alignment.
• Build detailed financial models, valuation frameworks, and business cases to support investment decisions.
• Conduct market, competitive, and synergy analyses to assess strategic fit and long-term value creation.
• Support end-to-end transaction execution, including coordination with executive leadership, finance, legal, investors and external advisors.
• Play a key role in post-merger integration planning, with emphasis on business alignment, GTM execution, and value realization.

Strategic Partnerships (Secondary Focus)

• Identify and develop high-impact strategic partnerships that complement LiveU’s inorganic growth strategy.
• Engage externally with executives, founders, and senior stakeholders to structure commercially meaningful partnerships.
• Collaborate with product and sales leadership to ensure partnerships align with roadmap and revenue objectives.
• Evaluate partnership-driven business models, routes to market, and expansion opportunities.

Qualifications & Experience

• 5–10+ years of experience in corporate development, M&A, business development, strategy, or investment-related roles.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with M&A sourcing, evaluation, and execution (buy-side experience preferred).
• Strong financial modeling, valuation, and P&L analysis skills.
• Experience in broadcast, public safety, critical communications, visual intelligence, video, digital media, media technology, or adjacent technology sectors.
• Proven ability to engage externally with senior executives and founders.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and executive presentation skills.
• Experience in interfacing with product teams for delivery of successful partner
• integrations
• Self driven individual who can also leverage matrix management to drive others
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, growth-oriented environment.
• MBA or equivalent business education is a plus.

Preferred Background

• Experience at public safety, visual intelligence technology or media technology companies, broadcasters, streaming platforms, or cloud technology providers.
• Exposure to ecosystem-driven GTM models, platform partnerships, or channel strategies.
• Prior experience working with U.S.-based technology companies and global teams.