# Director, Employee Experience M&A

**Company**: Adobe
**Location**: San Jose
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $185,800 - $278,750 annually
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Director, Employee Experience M&A leads the end-to-end people strategy for Adobe's transactions,from early diligence through close and post-close integration.

This is a senior, high-ownership individual-contributor role for someone who can run deals independently, from beginning to end, rather than support or coordinate a single workstream.

You will serve as the people lead on assigned deals, translating deal rationale into an actionable EX integration strategy and owning the outcome.

**Responsibilities**

- Own the full people lifecycle for assigned deals, independently leading EX diligence, integration planning, and post-close execution.

- Translate deal rationale and value drivers into a concrete, measurable integration strategy and plan.

- Provide the early voice on people-integration risks, complexity, and cost during diligence, and shape how those insights inform the integration approach.

- Define and drive integration priorities, workstreams, and timelines across all phases.

- Lead organizational transition, cultural assimilation, onboarding, and leadership/manager/team empowerment for acquired organizations.

- Partner with Corporate Development / Integration, Legal, Finance, ATS/Systems, HRBPs, and business and target-company leaders to align on org design, operating model, and people plans.

- Advise senior leadership,including as needed the CHRO and business executives,with clear recommendations grounded in diligence findings and integration realities.

- Build and continuously improve the EX M&A playbook in partnership with the team.

- Between and across deals, lead select transformation priorities,operating as a senior utility player deployable to a range of work beyond M&A.

**Requirements**

- 10+ years of progressive experience in HR, organizational strategy, or a related field, ideally within global enterprise environments.

- Demonstrated expertise across the full M&A deal lifecycle, with a track record of independently leading deals end-to-end.

- Broad HR knowledge across multiple fields: change management, culture and organization design, onboarding and leadership enablement, talent and workforce planning, and HR operations.

- Strong working knowledge of compensation/benefits harmonization and retention levers.

- Proven ability to make high-impact decisions independently, influence senior partners, and lead cross-functionally without direct authority.

- Excellent facilitation, communication, and change-leadership skills, including experience advising executive leadership.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Consulting background (management, HR, or M&A advisory).

- Experience with complex-structured, stock, or asset deals and with global or multi-country employee footprints.

- Experience navigating labor relations, works councils, and local labor law consultation requirements in global deals.

- Experience standing up or scaling M&A playbooks, processes, and tooling.

**Salary** The U.S. pay range for this position is $185,800 - $278,750 annually.

## Skills

### Required
- HR
- organizational strategy
- M&A
- change management
- culture and organization design
- onboarding and leadership enablement
- talent and workforce planning
- HR operations

### Nice to have
- consulting
- complex-structured deals
- global employee footprints
- labor relations
- works councils
- local labor law consultation

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