Senior Manager, M&A Integration
Description:
- Partner with Corporate Development from LOI onward to translate deal thesis into integration goals, success criteria, and operating models.
- Build and maintain the integration playbook, including plans, checklists, communications templates, and KPI frameworks.
- Support Integration Management Office governance, including workstreams, master integration plans, and DRI assignments.
- Lead day-to-day integration execution for assigned deals and keep cross-functional owners accountable to plan.
- Manage dependencies, risks, decisions, and trade-offs across integration workstreams.
- Own Day 1 and Day 100 readiness for assigned transactions.
- Partner with HR on org design, role mapping, retention, and engagement plans for acquired talent.
- Track integration KPIs, variance to the deal thesis and financial model, and recommend course corrections.
- Maintain deal-level status, risks, and interdependencies, and support portfolio-level reporting across active integrations.
- Use retrospectives and lessons learned to improve future integration processes and tools.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Minimum 8 years of progressive professional experience.
- At least 5 years leading or directly supporting M&A integration, post-merger integration consulting, corporate development integration, or complex cross-functional transformation programs.
- Experience within a technology or software organization is strongly preferred.
- Experience owning integration workstreams or full integrations from planning through post-close execution.
- Experience partnering with Corporate Development from LOI through close.
- Experience across deal types, including product and talent tuck-ins.
- Strong program management discipline, including structured planning, risk and dependency management, and concise status communication.
- Ability to operate cross-functionally and present to senior stakeholders with autonomy within a defined framework.
- Experience across Legal, HR, IT, Finance & Accounting, Go-to-Market, Marketing, and Product & Technology.
- Change management experience and comfort with the people and cultural side of integration.
- High-ownership, low-ego approach and sound judgment in confidential transactions.
Benefits:
- Base salary range: $95,000 to $187,000 USD.
- Equity and employee stock purchase program eligibility.
- Flexible paid time off.
- 20 weeks fully paid gender-neutral parental leave.
- Fertility and adoption assistance.
- 401(k) plan.
- Mental health counseling.
- Transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage and other health benefits.
