# Staff Program Manager, People M&A

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $145k – $249k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** m&a, people processes, Automation, AI, hr operations, Recruiting, it onboarding, data integrity, Project Management, Stakeholder Management
**Posted:** 2026-07-21

> Lead the People M&A "engine room" at Databricks by standardizing playbooks, driving automation/AI in workflows, ensuring seamless employee onboarding across deals, and maintaining data integrity as the primary liaison between Corporate Development and People teams. Requires 8+ years M&A experience, deep People process knowledge, and a first-principles builder mindset.

## Job Description

## Impact
- Standardize the Playbook: Operationalize tribal knowledge into a documented, E2E M&A Playbook and Knowledge Hub to eliminate dependency on a small group of experts.
- Drive Automation: Partner with People Tech to design and execute the "Tech Efficiency Roadmap," utilizing automation and AI into our workflows/deal phases.
- Execution Leadership: Lead the People M&A phases of the deal. Manage the complex orchestration of recruiting, IT onboarding, and HR operations from deal disclosure through Day 1.
- Data Integrity: Design and establish "Single Source of Truth" protocols and data ownership matrices to ensure 100% accuracy in employee data across all systems.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Act as the primary POC of the People team (TA, Benefits, PeopleOps, People Partners, Global Mobility) to ensure the People M&A priorities are roadmapped, tracked and implemented.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of M&A experience
- Speed matters, you don't wait for a playbook; you plan fast, drive alignment and execute
- You’re a problem solver, with multiple successful M&A project and process transformations
- Deep technical knowledge of People processes
- Experience designing, scaling, transforming People workflows
- Strategy & planning mindset, execution/delivery, influencing executive stakeholders

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