Vice President and Head of Membership Development

Overview: Transaction Advisors Institute provides corporate M&A teams with access to timely expertise and a vibrant knowledge network to improve their deal process and transaction performance. The Institute’s unique data and member-driven focus support the end-to-end deal process, spanning acquisitions, minority investments, joint ventures, and divestitures. Today many of the most active corporate M&A teams access the technical expertise, market intelligence, and vibrant knowledge network to design and calibrate their deal process to deliver strategic and high-performing transactions. Offerings include: M&A Academy: This curriculum-driven program provides process guidance — from target sourcing through closing — to help corporate M&A teams design high-performing transactionsM&A Conferences: These cross-disciplinary programs unpack current challenges impacting transactions and consider innovative methods for improving deal performanceM&A Forums: These data-driven roundtables connect corporate deal teams to analyze emerging challenges and engineer refined methods for transaction performanceM&A Master Classes: This series provides deep-dives into the critical phases of the deal process to build greater structural integrity within specific transaction workstreamsM&A Roundtables: These practical, candid, and off-the-record member-only discussions focus on building and running a high-performing corporate M&A team. M&A Research: The extensive collection of data and perspective on current trends, deal points, and best practices provides guidance on engineering calibrated deal processes The Institute is growing - adding new accounts for corporate M&A teams each week. Ambitious individuals who want to play an active role in building a prestigious knowledge institute are encouraged to apply.

About the Role: What is the role? The Institute is looking for an ambitious Vice President and Head of Membership Development to lead the growth strategy and team. This is a high-impact role. You will actively engage with corporate M&A teams that want to design, calibrate, and optimize their deal processes to deliver high-performing transactions. This is a true player-coach role. You will personally originate, develop, and close high-value corporate relationships while building, coaching, and scaling a high-performing account development team.

Required Skills: The ideal candidate will bring:

• A positive mindset: Energy, enthusiasm, and intellectual curiosity
• Adaptability: Comfort thriving in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment
• Professionalism: Sound judgment and a strong aptitude for technology
• High standards: Rigor, consistency, and precision

Preferred Skills: What are the keys to success? The ideal candidate is comfortable working in an entrepreneurial environment where creativity and experimentation help drive development of the organization. Successful individuals combine a positive attitude, high energy, and curiosity with strong attention to detail. Strong executive presence, commercial judgement, communication and influence skills, with a professional polish necessary for establishing credibility and trust with sophisticated senior decisionmakers. Rigor and consistency in your approach are key. You will bring day-to-day discipline, and an innate drive to be successful. Sound judgment in the use of AI, applying it to improve efficiency while critically evaluating outputs, validating accuracy, and ensuring all work meets the Institute’s standards for precision, clarity, and credibility. Results-driven and highly professional individual with ambition to own the growth strategy to help push the Institute to the next level of growth.

About the Role: Where will I work? Candidates are expected to work onsite at the Chicago office 4 days a week. The office is located in the historic Reid-Murdoch building on the Chicago River.

Equal Opportunity Statement: This job description does not include a specific equal opportunity statement. The employer’s commitment to diversity and inclusivity, if any, was not provided in the original description and therefore cannot be altered or expanded here.