Description
Adobe's Employee Experience (EX) M&A team owns the people-related dimensions of every transaction,from due diligence through close and post-close integration. As deal volume and complexity have grown, we are adding a Senior Program Manager to bring dedicated capacity to the integration workstreams that most directly shape the acquired-employee experience: change management, culture integration, onboarding, and leadership/manager/team enablement.
Working alongside our existing program leads, you will run defined workstreams end-to-end,designing the plan, coordinating cross-functionally, and driving execution against timeline and quality bars,while building the mechanics and playbooks that let the team scale.
Responsibilities
- Design and lead deal-specific EX change management strategies, including onboarding, post-onboarding monitoring, and retrospectives.
- Assess cultural gaps between Adobe and target companies, and build practical bridging programs that ease the transition for acquired employees and leaders.
- Facilitate onboarding and enablement activities; guide managers and leaders through periods of significant organizational change.
- Design and act on employee pulse surveys during organizational change, translating signals into interventions.
- Partner with target-company and Adobe leaders to align integration plans, and connect structural design to the lived employee experience.
- Align EX change and culture initiatives with the broader communications strategy.
- Coordinate across Corporate Development / Integration, Legal, Finance, ATS/Systems, HRBPs, and business leaders to keep EX integration workstreams on track.
- Independently manage workstream mechanics - timelines, tracking, documentation and prepare clear, executive-level status reporting.
- Develop and track integration metrics and pulse-survey signals to measure EX effectiveness and inform leadership decision-making.
- Build a network of external standards and industry benchmarks to continuously refine EX M&A playbooks.
Requirements
- 7+ years in HR, with M&A experience focused on integration, change management, or culture work.
- Hands-on experience designing and delivering change-management or culture-integration programs in a deal context.
- Strong data proficiency, including comfort working with employee census and workforce data and HRIS systems.
- Experience designing onboarding programs and delivering leadership onboarding post-close.
- Experience designing and acting on employee pulse surveys during periods of organizational change.
- Strong facilitation skills,comfortable leading workshops and driving alignment in rapidly changing environments.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver clear, well-structured, and impactful executive level presentations.
- Skilled at partnering with communications and cross-functional teams to align messaging and action.
- Strong program management fundamentals; able to independently own workstream mechanics.
- Ability to exercise independent judgment and discretion in handling highly confidential, deal-related information.
Preferred Qualifications
- Consulting experience (management, HR, or M&A advisory).
- Proven ability to thrive in a high-volume, high-pressure environment with competing priorities.
- Experience with complex-structured, stock, or asset deals.
- Experience coaching managers and leaders through significant organizational change.
- Breadth to operate as a utility player,able to move across M&A and broader transformation initiatives.
- Willingness and ability to travel on short notice to support critical deal moments.
Compensation
The U.S. pay range for this position is $117,900 - $245,300 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.