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.