# Director, Employee Success M&A

**Company**: Salesforce
**Location**: Seattle, Washington
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $164,000 - $261,500 annually
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

### About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword , it’s a way of life.

### The Experience

The Director, Employee Success M&A is a strategic, operationally disciplined leadership role within Salesforce’s Employee Success (ES) M&A organization. This role provides dedicated M&A support across live global transactions, driving operational excellence and integration success.

#### Responsibilities

- **Strategic M&A Due Diligence**: In partnership with the ES M&A Deal Lead, support end-to-end HR operational, cultural and financial due diligence across global acquisitions, leveraging agentic frameworks to streamline analysis across varying deal scales and complexities.

- Analyze target company workforce data, organizational structure, compensation models, benefits alignment, labor compliance, and key risks.

- Surface critical cultural and talent insights to highlight risks and inform longer-term integration and retention strategies, acting as a consistent thread throughout the integration journey from early diligence through to full integration.

- Synthesize findings into concise executive diligence reports, risk assessments, and mitigation plans for key decision-makers and steering committees.

- **Post-Close Integration Management & Execution**: Design, govern, and execute comprehensive HR integration roadmaps, managing deliverables and milestones from Day One through full operational harmonization.

- Orchestrate extended cross-functional integration teams across Global Rewards, Talent Acquisition, Employee Success Business Partners (ESBPs), and other Employee Success functions, as well as with cross-functional partners across the company.

- Manage workforce alignment efforts, including organizational design, job mapping/leveling, offer management, international consultation and transfer strategies, and Workday system onboarding workflows.

- Maintain strict governance standards for managing sensitive employee demographic, organizational, and compensation data.

- Act as a trusted advisor and ambassador to acquired company leadership and HR teams, navigating complex talent transitions, cultural integration, and change management.

- **Stakeholder Alignment & Executive Reporting**: Maintain tight cross-functional alignment within Employee Success as well as across Corporate Development, Legal, Finance, and other functional M&A teams.

- Prepare executive-ready materials to provide visibility to deal integration performance, risk escalations, and budget adherence.

### Requirements

- HR M&A Expertise: Demonstrated experience supporting complex, end-to-end HR due diligence and integrations across international transactions in the tech sector.

- Program Management: Strong track record of structuring, executing, and leading complex, cross-functional HR integration initiatives from strategy through operational completion.

- Employee Experience: Expertise in change management principles and crafting a seamless employee experience, with proven skills in building trust, leading empathetic communication, and guiding acquired talent smoothly through transition.

- Data Driven & Operational Rigor: Combines strong stakeholder management and influencing skills with a meticulous approach to data integrity, compliance, and process details.

- AI Proficiency & Emerging Tech: Proficient in utilizing modern AI tools and agentic frameworks to optimize deal execution, streamline workforce analysis, and automate M&A integration workflows.

- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related operational field.

- HR Experience: Minimum 8 years of progressive HR leadership experience across HR Business Partnering, HR Operations, or Global COE roles, or equivalent consulting industry HR-specific expertise.

- HR M&A Depth: 3+ years of direct experience supporting corporate HR M&A due diligence and post-close integrations in the technology sector.

- Systems & Tools Proficiency: Practical familiarity with enterprise HRIS platforms (specifically Workday), core project collaboration tools (e.g., Slack, Google Suite), and AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT.

- Travel Flexibility: Ability and willingness to travel as needed during peak deal and announcement activity thresholds.

### Benefits

- Time off programs

- Medical, dental, vision

- Mental health support

- Paid parental leave

- Life and disability insurance

- 401(k)

- Employee stock purchasing program

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## Skills

### Required
- HR M&A
- Program Management
- Employee Experience
- Data Driven & Operational Rigor
- AI Proficiency & Emerging Tech
- Workday
- Slack
- Google Suite
- Claude
- ChatGPT

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