Member of Corporate Development, M&A

The role As a Member of Corporate Development focused on M&A, you're a key part of Arca's growth engine. We grow by acquiring RIAs — typically ~$500M-to-$2B+ AUM firms led by a founder thinking carefully about their next chapter — and putting our platform underneath them. Your job is to find those firms, build real relationships with the people who run them, and carry deals from the first coffee to close. For a founder deciding what happens to the firm they spent a career building, you're the person they come to trust to get them there. This is a high-ownership seat with a direct line to the Head of M&A and senior leadership. You own relationships, you shape the pipeline, and you see your work in every firm we bring on. Acquisition is how the whole company grows, so the deals you close set the pace for everything else.

What you'll own Sourcing and relationships. You cultivate proprietary relationships with RIA founders and principals, building a pipeline of ~$500M-to-$2B+ AUM targets and becoming someone they trust long before they're ready to transact. The long game is the job. Deals, end to end. Outreach, qualification, valuation, diligence, structuring, close. You don't hand a deal off at some stage — you carry it through. The analysis behind the call. You build the financial models and valuation work that shape deal terms and the go/no-go decisions, and you have a real point of view on what a firm is worth. Diligence across the company. You coordinate workstreams across finance, legal, compliance, and operations to get deals over the line. The acquisition playbook. As we scale to four or five acquisitions this year and more after, you sharpen how we source and how we close — your fingerprints on how the company grows. The kind of person who thrives here You're excited by ownership, ambiguity, and building things that matter. You source deals and close them. You've spent 2+ years in private equity or corporate development with hands-on experience finding and evaluating acquisition targets — not just modeling deals someone else sourced. You know what a real pipeline looks like and how to build one. You play the long game with founders. You're a people person, and you mean it — you're energized by building relationships and earning trust over months, not transactions. A founder deciding the fate of their firm can tell the difference between someone who's there to help and someone who's there to close, and you're the former. You can read a firm and price it. Sharp financial modeling, valuation, and analytical skills, paired with the commercial judgment to know what the numbers actually mean for a deal. You're a self-starter who finishes. You take ownership, move fast, and don't wait to be told what to do. In an early-stage company where a lot of the playbook isn't written yet, you write it. You're AI-pilled and curious about this industry. You're excited by what AI makes possible and by the chance to help rebuild wealth management with it. Familiarity with the RIA or wealth management landscape is a plus, not a requirement. You're someone people actually want to be in the room with. This is a 12-person team, one office, five days a week, working on problems that don't have clean answers. Kind, direct, and low-ego, you can give candid feedback without being an asshole, and you're genuinely energized by this environment (not just tolerant of it). Why now is the moment to join This is a narrow window with unusually high leverage. We just came out of stealth, and we're growing fast.

The team is intentionally small, the equity reflects that, and the ceiling is high. You'd be joining early enough that the work you do now directly shapes what the company becomes and what's possible next. The advisor-facing product is being defined right now , by a small team that talks to advisors every day. We've just brought on our second firm—the real inflection point, where we start separating what generalizes from what was bespoke. The patterns you set become the foundation for every acquisition that follows. The consumer product is a blank page. We've never built directly for consumers until now—no legacy, no template. Whoever takes this on defines what the experience even is. The hard part is behind us, which means the interesting part is starting. The platform is live, the concept is proven, advisors have moved real client assets onto it. The work now is scaling a working system across four or five acquisitions this year—workflows, data, agents, reliability under real load.

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