Senior Associate, Corporate Development

Sonarsource
San Francisco, US
Career-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Best suited to early-career professionals from venture capital, investment banking, or corporate development who thrive in high-visibility roles at strategically positioned software companies.

Best fit for

  • Early-career professionals seeking direct operating exposure in corporate development.
    — “This is a high-visibility role designed to give an early-career professional
  • Candidates with experience in M&A and strategic investments in the AI coding space.
    — “shaping the company's growth strategy across M&A, strategic investments

Things to consider

  • Position requires managing pipeline from outreach to integration planning.
    — “From first outreach through diligence and integration planning

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in market mapping and outbound sourcing for M&A.
    — “you will be the primary engine for outbound sourcing, market mapping
  • Demonstrate ability to evaluate opportunities with rigor and pace.
    — “help ensure Sonar evaluates the right opportunities, with the right rigor, at the right pace
  • Showcase cross-functional collaboration skills in previous roles.
    — “serve as the connective tissue between Sonar's executive leadership, Product, Engineering, Finance, and Legal teams
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · CompanyLevel · Senior

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • outbound sourcing
  • market mapping
  • triage of M&A opportunities
Typical background
corporate developmentinvestment bankingventure capital

Skills & requirements

Required

Corporate DevelopmentM&AStrategic InvestmentsBuild/partner/buy Decisions

Preferred

Venture CapitalInvestment BankingCorporate Development

Stack & domain

Ai Code ReviewProduct UsageBest PracticesLeadershipCommunicationStrategic ThinkingCorporate DevelopmentM&aInvestment Banking

About the role

Original posting from Sonarsource via Lever

Who is Sonar?

Sonar is driving the future of agent-centric software development. As the leader in AI code review and verification, we solve a critical problem: ensuring that software generated by AI-assisted developers or autonomous agents is reliable, secure, and maintainable.

Integrating seamlessly with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and Devin, we help over 75% of the Fortune 100 build trusted, reliable, compliant software. Customers who use Sonar are 44% less likely to report an outage due to AI-generated code.

We believe code verification is the critical missing link in the Agent-Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC). Industry giants like Nvidia, ServiceNow, Booking.com, Goldman Sachs, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company count on us to provide independent, explainable, consistent review and governance of their AI-generated code via products like:

SonarQube: The world’s leading AI code review and verification platform.

SonarQube Foundation Agent: Currently topping the leaderboards for agentic software repair.

SonarSweep & Sonar Context Augmentation: Providing the enterprise-grade context and constraints agents need to be truly effective.

Our team operates across global hubs in Austin, Bochum, Dubai, Geneva, London, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington D.C. We move with a mindset we call CODE:

Committed to our customers and community.

Obsessed with quality.

Deliberate in our decisions.

Effective as one team.

With over $400M in revenue and profitable, fast-paced growth, we are building the backbone of the AI software revolution. If you’re hungry to have an impact, want to build at a fast pace, and ready to work at the forefront of AI, we want to hear from you.

Position description

As a Senior Associate, Corporate Development at Sonar, you will play a foundational role in shaping the company's growth strategy across M&A, strategic investments, and build/partner/buy decisions. Reporting to the VP, Corporate Development, you will be the primary engine for outbound sourcing, market mapping, and triage of M&A opportunities across the AI coding, developer tools, application security, and broader software development lifecycle (SDLC) ecosystem.

You will own day-to-day pipeline management and serve as the connective tissue between Sonar's executive leadership, Product, Engineering, Finance, and Legal teams as we evaluate M&A opportunities. From first outreach through diligence and integration planning, you will help ensure Sonar evaluates the right opportunities, with the right rigor, at the right pace. This is a high-visibility role designed to give an early-career professional from venture capital, investment banking, or corporate development direct operating exposure at one of the most strategically positioned independent software companies in the AI era.

Source: Sonarsource careers (Lever)

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