# Senior Director, Employee Success M&A

**Company**: Salesforce
**Location**: Seattle, Washington
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $181,700 - $304,700 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 Senior 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 deal leadership coverage across live global transactions, driving long-term strategy and operational excellence. In this role, you will direct end-to-end workforce strategy and deal execution across the full transaction lifecycle,from pre-LOI due diligence and talent valuation through post-close integration execution.

### Responsibilities

#### Strategic Deal Leadership & Due Diligence

- Lead 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.

- Formulate global talent assessment and retention strategies in collaboration with our Global Rewards M&A lead, Corporate Development and executive leadership, structuring key offers, retention equity pools, and harmonization strategies to achieve both strategic and financial objectives of our acquisitions.

- 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.

- Direct 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.

- Establish metrics, tracking mechanisms, and data-driven reporting to monitor deal integration performance, risk escalations, and budget adherence.

### Requirements

- Deep HR M&A Expertise: Proven track record leading complex, end-to-end HR due diligence and integrations across international transactions in the tech sector.

- Strategic Vision & Operational Rigor: Combines high-level executive workforce planning with a meticulous approach to data integrity, compliance, and process details.

- Thrives in Dynamic Environments: Adept at navigating complex, matrixed, and ambiguous environments, managing multiple parallel deal tracks under tight timelines.

- Courageous Influencer: Demonstrates outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to build trust with acquired leaders, employees, and internal stakeholders.

- Global Perspective: Experienced in managing international labor complexities, works councils, international consultation processes, and multi-country deal dynamics.

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

- HR Experience: Minimum 10 years of progressive HR leadership experience across HR Business Partnering, HR Operations, or Global COE roles.

- HR M&A Depth: 5+ years of direct experience leading 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) and core project collaboration tools (e.g., Slack, Google Suite).

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

### Benefits

Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.

### Salary Range

The typical base salary range for this position is $181,700 - $304,700 annually.

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## Skills

### Required
- HR M&A
- Workday
- Project collaboration tools
- International labor laws
- Change management

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