# Associate, Corporate Development at Mariana Minerals

Associate, Corporate Development at Mariana Minerals in Houston, TX. On-site, full-time. Posted October 23, 2026.

- Company: Mariana Minerals
- Location: Houston, TX
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Experience: 2+ years
- Posted: 2026-10-23
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/marianaminerals/75cbda69-26a7-4596-9d80-419416cdebbd/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/associate-corporate-development-mariana-minerals-7b8y2a

## Description

**About Mariana Minerals**Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company on a mission to supply the critical minerals powering modern energy, AI, and defense technologies. We’re reimagining the minerals supply chain by combining deep industry expertise with advanced software, automation, and data-driven decision-making.
**The Corporate Development team**
Corporate Development raises the capital and closes the transactions that take Mariana's projects from development to operation. The team sits at the intersection of corporate finance, project finance, and M&A, and works directly with the CEO, CFO, and commercial leadership.
The team's work spans:
• **Corporate and project financing:** equity raises, project-level equity, project finance debt, export credit agency and government-backed financing, venture and corporate debt.
• **Structured commercial transactions:** offtake agreements, prepayments, working capital and inventory financing with strategics and commodity trading houses.
• **M&A and partnerships:** acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships across lithium, copper, and adjacent minerals.
• **Investor relations:** materials, process management, and ongoing engagement with existing and prospective investors and lenders.
We are hiring an Associate and a Manager. Both roles report to the Director of Corporate Development, are based in Houston, and will help build how the function itself runs on MarianaOS.
**Associate, Corporate Development**
The Associate is the analytical engine of the team: building the models, materials, and diligence work that underpin every financing and transaction. You will have direct exposure to senior management and counterparties from day one, on live deals.
**What you'll do**
• Build and maintain financial models: project-level DCFs, life-of-mine models, financing structures, returns and sensitivity analysis, and corporate funding plans.
• Prepare investor presentations, lender materials, board materials, and internal decision memos.
• Run diligence workstreams: manage data rooms, coordinate third-party advisors (technical, legal, environmental, market), and track and respond to diligence requests.
• Analyze and benchmark transaction terms, including offtake, prepayment, and debt term sheets, and support the team in negotiations.
• Track comparable transactions and peer companies to inform valuation and strategy.
• Help build the function's tooling on MarianaOS: models, data pipelines, and workflows that make the team faster.
**What we're looking for**
• 2–4+ years in investment banking, private equity, or corporate development.
• Strong financial modeling from a blank page; comfortable building and auditing complex, integrated models.
• Clear, concise written communication and polished presentation materials.
• High ownership and attention to detail; able to run multiple workstreams in parallel.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, engineering, or a related field.
**Nice to have**
• Exposure to project finance, natural resources, or infrastructure transactions.
• Familiarity with mining concepts (reserves and resources, technical reports, commodity pricing).
• Comfort with Python, SQL, or other tools beyond Excel.

### **Our culture is built on four principles:Everyone Gets Home Safe. **We never put speed or cost ahead of people.
**Extreme Ownership. **We take full responsibility for outcomes, relentlessly driving toward solutions.
**Engineer Out Requirements, then Automate. **We simplify, optimize, and then automate for scale.
**Share Your Legos.** We collaborate openly, share knowledge, and empower each other to build bigger, better solutions.

**Join us as we build the future of responsible mineral sourcing and supply!**