Corporate Development Lead

About the role

We're hiring a Corporate Development Lead to own the integration of lateral attorneys and acquired practices end to end. When an attorney joins Manifest, two things have to go right: their clients experience a seamless transition onto a better platform, and the attorney gets more out of practicing here than they could anywhere else. Your job is to make both true, every time — and to build the playbook that makes each integration smoother than the last.

What You'll Do

• Own the integration playbook end to end: Define what a great integration looks like, build it as a repeatable system, and run every one against it so nothing falls through the cracks.
• Launch new partners with impact: Build the go-to-market moment for each attorney who joins — messaging, storytelling, webinars, events — so their arrival lands with clients and the market from day one.
• Champion the attorney experience: Own the things that make joining Manifest feel like an upgrade — marketing support, profile-building, and a genuine investment in their practice and community.
• Bring practices onto the platform: Work with product, ops, and legal leadership on the operational transition — case migration, workflows, billing, staffing — with no drop in service for the clients coming over.
• Own the relationships: Dinners, events, client introductions, and the personal details that make high-touch work — done with the judgment and taste that makes it welcome rather than annoying.
• Turn each integration into institutional knowledge: Learn from every attorney who joins — their practice, their industry, what worked — and feed it back into a sharper playbook and a stronger platform.
• Track what matters: Define the milestones of a healthy integration, measure against them, and surface risk early.

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years in strategy & operations, product, consulting, chief-of-staff, or a senior generalist role — the pattern matters more than the title: broad ownership, cross-functional execution, things that got done because you were there
• Product experience — you've worked closely with product and engineering teams and can translate how a business operates into what a platform needs to do
• M&A, post-merger integration, or senior-hire onboarding exposure — you've lived through bringing an acquired business or team into a company and know where these things break
• A track record of owning a number — you can name the goal, the strategy, and the outcome
• High relationship EQ — senior professionals and their clients are used to being looked after by people who remember the details, and you enjoy the dinners rather than endure them
• Sharp communicator; you can write the integration memo and host the welcome dinner equally well

Based in NYC; willing to work from our Flatiron office five days a week

This is for you if...

• You're a generalist by design and range is your superpower — equally credible in a product roadmap discussion and at a client dinner.
• You're energized by owning an outcome that has no playbook yet, writing the playbook, and then doing the unglamorous work inside it.
• You understand that in a relationship business, trust is earned slowly and lost quickly.

This is not for you if...

• You prefer structure over ambiguity, following playbooks over writing them, or a lane over a landscape.
• If "product integration in the morning, client dinner at night" sounds exhausting rather than exciting, this isn't the role.