# Director, M&A People Strategy & Integration

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Chicago, IL
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $196,000-$270,000 USD
**Category**: HR
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a strategic, hands-on Director, M&A People Strategy & Integration to lead the human capital lifecycle for our deal pipeline.

In this high-impact individual contributor role, you will design and execute due diligence and post-merger integration strategies centred on talent, organisational design, compensation, and cultural alignment.

Key Responsibilities:

- People Due Diligence & Risk Assessment: Lead HR and talent due diligence across target organisations, analysing organisational structures, total rewards programs, workforce demographics, employment contracts, and labour compliance risks.

- Talent & Cultural Assessment: Evaluate key talent retention risks, leadership team capabilities, organisational design, critical skills gaps, and cultural alignment to inform valuation, deal terms, and integration strategies.

- Cost & Synergy Modeling: Partner with Finance to analyse workforce cost structures, including compensation, benefits, harmonisation costs, retention packages, severance exposure, and synergy targets.

- Cross-Functional Integration Planning & Execution: Build and maintain scalable People M&A playbooks, defining key deliverables across HR, Legal, Finance, and IT for Day 1 readiness and First 100 Days goals.

- Employee Experience & Change Management: Partner with Internal Comms and Legal to design Day 1 announcement communications, offer letter rollouts, onboarding experiences, and executive town halls.

Qualifications & Requirements:

- Experience: 7–10+ years in M&A HR and Talent strategy, People Integration, or M&A Human Capital consulting.

- Cross-Functional Expertise: Proven ability to drive joint workstreams with Legal, Finance/Payroll, IT, and HR functional leads.

- Technical HR Acumen: Strong fluency in global/domestic employment law fundamentals, compensation/benefits harmonisation, equity compensation, and HRIS systems migrations.

- Data-Driven Analysis: Solid skills in workforce data modeling, salary/benefit side-by-side mapping, and workforce financial synthesis.

Benefits:

- Health, dental, and vision insurance

- 401(k)

- Flexible spending account

- Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)

## Skills

### Required
- M&A HR
- Talent strategy
- People Integration
- HRIS systems migrations
- Data-driven analysis

### Nice to have
- Master's or SPHR/SHRM-SCP certification

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