Head of Corporate Development

At Storytel we believe that powerful stories add an extra dimension to life. Storytel is one of the world’s leading audiobook and ebook streaming services and we offer unlimited listening to consumers in 25+ markets, with several new markets launching in the coming year. Our vision is to make the world a more empathetic place with great stories to be shared and enjoyed by anyone, anywhere, anytime. We are now looking for a Head of Corporate Development to join the team!

About the Role

To accelerate our growth, Storytel has set up a new unit - Corporate Development - with the aim to accelerate our growth journey with growth through M&A, Global Partnerships and other new initiatives that would be on top of the organic country-led consumer subscriber growth in 25+ markets. We are looking for a seasoned leader to head this department and report directly to our Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) who is part of the Global Management team.

M&A and Partnerships have already contributed positively to Storytel’s development so far. Storytel has over the past five years enabled value-creation both through acquisitions of streaming companies like Mofibo (DK), Kitab Sawti (MENA) and Audiobooks.com (US) and from buying important publishing houses such as Norstedt (SE), People’s (DK) and Gummerus (FI). To date we have several mutual successful partnerships established locally and regionally with for example Telcos and other consumer Tech companies.

The Team is already formed by strong individuals with experience from Project Management, Partnership, Commercial Development, M&A and valuation. We now want to accelerate the outcome of the team by bringing on a strong entrepreneurial minded leader, with significant experience from executing deals and building successful partnerships from adjacent consumer and tech industries. You will together with the team act as a key stakeholder towards the Product & Tech organisation to serve and productify partnerships as well as ensuring the right integration, collaboration and mutual success. Your team will have clear result responsibility and targets around Sales Growth, Partnership Success and value-doubling from M&A.

Storytel is a non-hierarchical organisation with lots of cross-functional processes to ensure seamless collaboration between our Commercial operations and Content, Product, Tech and administrative departments. You will be an important stakeholder to our Global Commercial and Product teams when it comes to growth and subscriptions models.

About You

To be successful in this role we believe that you have:

- 8-10 years of hands-on relevant experience from Partnership Development and Corporate development and/or M&A management
- Proven experience in identifying and initiating business opportunities and driving and closing complex multidimensional deals that include Product and Tech resources from start to finish
- Experience from successful high-growth online consumer business, media and entertainment, tech and or product services
- Experience from expansion and internationalisation strategies
- Experience working in an international environment and in a global function
- An entrepreneurial mindset, excellent leadership and communication skills
- Ability to thrive when building efficient organisations with high level of autonomy and collaboration
- Excellent English communication skills


About the Team

As Head of Corporate Development, you report to Ingrid Bojner, CCO (Chief Commercial Officer). You will together with the Regional Heads and heads of commercial strategic units form the Commercial Leadership team. As part of this team, you will work in a dynamic setting, with continuous organisational development to ensure we deliver on our customer promise to make the world a better place by making stories available to anyone, anywhere, anytime, and to achieve high-set global targets of 30% revenue growth, as well as explicit EBITDA targets.

Whilst the team is based predominantly in Stockholm, we are flexible as to the location of the Storytel office the candidate is based from.

Storytel’s culture encourages self-leadership, innovation, collaboration - and our employees share a common passion for high-quality content and stories. There is a strong emphasis on continuous development, learning through experimentation and actively sharing feedback to constantly improve performance.

Therefore, we believe you are open minded, pragmatic and have a passion for building and developing businesses. You understand the beauty of delegating mandates and can work without prestige with all functions in Storytel.

What we offer

At Storytel we trust our employees and believe in their autonomy. We offer flexible working hours, remote working possibilities when possible and flexible public holidays for people to celebrate what they truly believe in.

Storytel offers a friendly, entrepreneurial and fast-moving work environment where new ideas and creativity are welcomed. We like doing things in new ways and questioning old methods. The Storytel culture - characterised by being welcoming and helpful - is important to us. We don’t believe in hierarchy and micromanagement; we highly believe in giving responsibility and having people grow alongside it. And of course - you get unlimited listening to audio and ebooks from our service!

Does this sound like you? If you feel like Storytel is a place where you could thrive, please submit your application in English and we will contact you as soon as possible.