Senior Manager, M&A Integration

Responsibilities

Integration Strategy & Planning

• Partner with Corporate Development from LOI onward to translate deal theses into integration goals, success criteria, and operating models.
• Build and maintain the integration playbook, including Day 1 and Day 100 checklists, communications templates, and KPI frameworks.
• Define workstreams, master integration plans, governance cadences, and directly responsible individuals for each transaction.

Cross-Functional Execution

• Serve as the day-to-day integration lead for assigned deals.
• Coordinate standups, cross-functional reviews, status updates, and accountability across Legal, HR, Finance & Accounting, IT, Go-to-Market, Marketing, and Product & Technology.
• Manage dependencies and risks, facilitate decisions and trade-offs, and escalate material issues.
• Own Day 1 and Day 100 readiness across concurrent transactions.

People & Change Management

• Partner with HR on organizational design, role mapping, retention, and engagement plans for acquired talent.
• Track attrition, engagement, and manager feedback indicators and recommend interventions.
• Support acquired employees through the transition and connect them with appropriate stakeholders.

Reporting & Synergy Realization

• Track integration KPIs and partner with Corporate Development and FP&A to connect progress to the deal thesis and financial model.
• Maintain deal-level and portfolio-level views of status, risks, and interdependencies.
• Present integration progress and recommendations to relevant stakeholders.

Process Support

• Maintain integration plans, checklists, templates, KPI libraries, and governance tools.
• Assess integration complexity and risk during deal evaluation and negotiation.
• Use AI-enabled tools to standardize and scale integration playbooks, trackers, and governance templates.
• Conduct retrospectives and incorporate lessons learned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum 8 years of progressive professional experience, including 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 in a technology or software organization 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 product and talent tuck-in acquisitions.
• Strong program management, planning, risk management, dependency management, and status communication skills.
• Ability to operate cross-functionally and present to senior stakeholders with autonomy.
• Experience across Legal, HR, IT, Finance & Accounting, Go-to-Market, Marketing, and Product & Technology.
• Change management experience, including cultural and people-related integration.
• High ownership, sound judgment, discretion, and comfort operating in ambiguous, confidential, deal-driven environments.

Compensation & Benefits

• Hybrid working model available in New York City, Austin, or Palo Alto, or remote within the United States.
• Employee affinity groups, fertility assistance, parental leave, and broader wellbeing support.