Director Strategic M&A & Value Realisation

InMobi; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading advertising technology company in Bangalore seeks a Director/VP in Strategic M&A to oversee global mergers and acquisitions, ensuring seamless integration and value realization. This role is pivotal for aligning organizational culture and driving successful outcomes across strategic investments. Ideal candidates will possess 12–18 years of related experience, with demonstrated success in managing post-deal integrations and executive stakeholder engagement. The company promotes a culture of accountability and growth, striving to connect billions with innovative solutions.

Qualifications

• 12–18+ years of experience across People Strategy, M&A, Integration, or Consulting.
• 4–7+ years in consulting or M&A advisory environments preferred.
• Strong, hands-on experience with global acquisitions.
• Demonstrated experience owning post‑deal integration and value realisation.
• Deep understanding of rewards, cost structures, and compliance.
• Change management in high‑stakes environments.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills and executive presence.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the People charter in global mergers and acquisitions.
• Ensure fast assimilation and integration of acquisitions.
• Drive cultural assimilation and accountability.
• Codify learnings to continuously strengthen the organization’s M&A muscle.

Skills

People Strategy

M&A Integration

Stakeholder Management

Change Management

Strategic Thinking

Change management

Stakeholder management

Executive presence

Strategic thinking

Job description

Director – Strategic M&A & Value Realisation

InMobi Advertising is a global technology leader helping marketers win the moments that matter. Our advertising platform reaches over 2 billion people across 150+ countries and turns real‑time context into business outcomes, delivering results grounded in privacy‑first principles. Trusted by 30,000+ brands and leading publishers, InMobi is where intelligence, creativity, and accountability converge. By combining lock screens, apps, TVs, and the open web with AI and machine learning, we deliver receptive attention, precise personalization, and measurable impact.

Through Glance AI, we are shaping AI Commerce, reimagining the future of e‑commerce with inspiration‑led discovery and shopping. Designed to seamlessly integrate into everyday consumer technology, Glance AI transforms every screen into a gateway for instant, personal, and joyful discovery. Spanning diverse categories such as fashion, beauty, travel, accessories, home décor, pets, and beyond, Glance AI delivers deeply personalized shopping experiences. With rich first‑party data and unparalleled consumer access, it harnesses InMobi’s global scale, insights, and targeting capabilities to create high‑impact, performance‑driven shopping journeys for brands worldwide.

Recognized as a Great Place to Work, and by MIT Technology Review, Fast Company’s Top 10 Innovators, and more, InMobi is a workplace where bold ideas create global impact. Backed by investors including SoftBank, Kleiner Perkins, and Sherpalo Ventures, InMobi has offices across San Mateo, New York, London, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Jakarta, Bengaluru and beyond.

At InMobi Advertising, you’ll have the opportunity to shape how billions of users connect with content, commerce, and brands worldwide. To learn more, visit www.inmobi.com.

Location: Bangalore – In Office
Reports To: CHRO (with strong SIG – Strategic Investment Group/ CEO / CFO partnership)

About InMobi Group

InMobi Group has been a pioneer in mobile‑first, AI‑powered technology for over 18 years, shaping the future of advertising and consumer experiences. With businesses spanning AdTech, Consumer Tech (Glance), and Data Platforms, we’re driving intelligent experiences at scale, powering over 500 million devices across markets like the US, Japan, India, and Brazil. As a profitable and high‑growth company, we’re on a bold path toward IPO and redefining global digital engagement through innovation in advertising, AI commerce, connected TV, and more.

As InMobi Group accelerates its next phase of growth through a robust pipeline of global acquisitions planned over the coming year, right M&A will be critical in enabling the organization to scale rapidly while preserving cultural coherence, leadership strength, and operational rigor—making inorganic growth a core lever in achieving our long‑term business vision.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Director/VP – Strategic M&A Integration & Value Realisation to own and lead the People charter across global mergers, acquisitions, and strategic investments. The role owns the end‑to‑end integration and value delivery lifecycle for large acquisitions and strategic transactions—starting pre‑LOI and extending through Day‑1, Day‑90, and Year‑1 outcomes.

This role exists to ensure that acquisitions are:

• Assimilated fast
• Organizationally and culturally integrated
• Cost‑ and value‑disciplined
• Measurably accretive to the core business

The role does not own deal execution. Instead, it ensures that every deal delivers its intended strategic, organizational, and people outcomes, with clear accountability for value realisation.

Operating at the intersection of People, Strategy, Finance, and Business, this is a high‑impact role critical to making inorganic growth a repeatable, disciplined value engine for the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Pre‑LOI Integration & Org Due Diligence (Strategic Advisory)

Partner closely with SIG Finance and the CHRO’s office before LOI to assess:

• Leadership quality, depth, and succession risk
• Org structure, role overlaps, and decision rights
• Culture, performance norms, and operating cadence
• Workforce cost structures, location leverage, and scalability

Shape integration hypotheses that directly influence:

Provide clear, decision‑oriented inputs that inform deal structure—not retrospective commentary.

• Design and own the end‑to‑end integration strategy across people, org, cost, systems, and culture
• Drive fast, decisive integration choices; escape trade‑offs when required
• Ensure integration momentum is sustained without creating prolonged disruption or fatigue

This role acts as the single‑threaded owner for integration outcomes.

• Org, Talent & Culture Assimilation
• Lead future‑state org design and leadership mapping
• Make strategic calls on:
• Role redundancies
• Leadership transitions
• Retention of truly critical talent
• Drive cultural assimilation in close partnership with PBPs, focusing on:
• Decision speed
• Accountability and ownership
• Performance bars and execution rigor

Ensure acquired leaders and teams are fully embedded, not operating as parallel structures.

• Synergy & Cost Value Realisation (Core to the Role)
• Architect and deliver robust synergies across:
• Workforce and leadership layers
• Vendors, platforms, and infrastructure
• Partner with Finance to track real P&L and cash impact, not just synergy narratives
• Embed cost discipline from Day‑1, ensuring value is realised—not deferred

Hold integration teams accountable to committed vs realised value.

• Senior Stakeholder & Governance Leadership
• Act as a trusted extension of the CHRO in driving enterprise‑wide change
• Partner closely with CEO, CFO, Business Heads, and SIG
• Provide transparent, executive‑level updates on:
• Integration risks and blockers
• Org, leadership, and talent implications

Ensure governance is tight, decisions are documented, and trade‑offs are explicit.

• Playbooks, Governance & Institutional Capability
• Build and institutionalise M&A integration playbooks, trackers, and governance models
• Create repeatable frameworks that scale across multiple concurrent deals
• Ensure auditability and readiness for IPO‑level scrutiny
• Codify learnings to continuously strengthen the organization’s M&A muscle

What Success Looks Like

• Acquisitions are integrated cleanly and quickly
• Clear people, org, and cost synergies are measurably delivered
• No prolonged “integration fatigue” across the organization
• Acquired leaders and teams operate as one company, not legacy entities
• A scalable, institutionalised M&A integration playbook exists across the org
• Inorganic growth becomes a predictable value lever, not a risk function

Qualifications & Skills

• 12–18+ years of experience across People Strategy, M&A, Integration, or Consulting
• 4–7+ years in consulting or M&A advisory environments (Big 4, Aon, Mercer, WTW, or similar) strongly preferred
• Strong, hands‑on experience with global acquisitions (US & EMEA mandatory)
• Demonstrated experience owning post‑deal integration and value realisation
• Deep understanding of:
• Rewards, cost structures, and compliance
• Change management in high‑stakes environments
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills and executive presence
• Ability to operate with high ambiguity, speed, and accountability
• Strategic thinker with a strong execution bias

The InMobi Culture

At InMobi, culture isn’t a buzzword; it’s an ethos woven by every InMobian, reflecting our diverse backgrounds and experiences.

We thrive on challenges and seize every opportunity for growth. Our core values—thinking big, being passionate, showing accountability, and taking ownership with freedom—guide us in every decision we make.

We believe in nurturing and investing in your development through continuous learning and career progression with our InMobi Live Your Potential program.

InMobi is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the hiring process and in the workplace.