M&A Employee Experience Leader

Adobe; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 193,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe is seeking a Director, Employee Experience M&A to own the end-to-end people strategy for transactions. You will lead EX diligence, integration planning, and post-close execution as a senior, individual contributor, translating deal rationale into actionable integration plans.

You will serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and coordinate with Legal, Finance, HRBPs, and target-company leaders to shape org design and resources, including complex, multi-country deals.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in HR, organizational strategy, or a related field.
• 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.

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 (and vice versa).
• Define and drive integration priorities, workstreams, and timelines across all phases; assemble and direct cross-functional effort without formal authority.
• Lead organizational transition, cultural assimilation, onboarding, and leadership/manager/team empowerment for acquired organizations, including complex and groundbreaking deals.
• 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, raising the team's ability to run more deals concurrently at consistent quality.
• Between and across deals, lead select transformation priorities—operating as a senior utility player deployable to a range of work beyond M&A.

Skills

HR leadership

M&A lifecycle

change management

compensation/benefits harmonization

independent decision making

executive communication

Job description

Adobe is seeking a Director, Employee Experience M&A to own the end-to-end people strategy for transactions. You will lead EX diligence, integration planning, and post-close execution as a senior, individual contributor, translating deal rationale into actionable integration plans.

You will serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and coordinate with Legal, Finance, HRBPs, and target-company leaders to shape org design and resources, including complex, multi-country deals.