Senior Director, Global M&A Integration & IMO

Digital Realty; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 225,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Realty is seeking a Sr. Director, Head of Integration Mgmt.

Office and Post M&A Integrations to lead the planning, execution, governance, and value realization of transactions worldwide. This role is the enterprise leader for post-acquisition integrations, ensuring successful integration of new businesses, assets, systems, processes, and teams while achieving acquisition objectives and value creation targets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Operations, or related field.
• MBA preferred.
• 10+ years of experience leading M&A integrations, Integration Management Offices, corporate development initiatives, or large-scale business integration programs.
• Demonstrated success leading complex post-acquisition integrations across multiple functions, stakeholders, and geographies.
• Proven experience building and scaling teams, governance frameworks, operating models, organizational capabilities, and integration methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end integration planning and execution for acquisitions across Digital Realty’s global portfolio.
• Partner with Corporate Development, Acquisitions, executive sponsors, and business leaders to develop integration strategies and post-close execution plans.
• Build, scale, and lead a best-in-class Integration Management Office (IMO), including governance frameworks, operating models, methodologies, reporting standards, and integration playbooks.
• Develop and manage integrated master plans, workstream plans, Day 1 readiness activities, Day 100 execution plans, TSA exits, synergy realization targets, and long-term integration objectives.
• Establish and lead enterprise integration governance frameworks, executive steering committees, milestone reviews, risk management processes, decision logs, issue escalation procedures, and executive reporting standards.
• Drive alignment and accountability across Finance, Operations, Technology, HR, Legal, Product, and other key functional teams while ensuring successful integration execution and minimizing business disruption.
• Recruit, develop, and lead a team of integration professionals capable of supporting multiple simultaneous acquisitions globally.
• Maintain portfolio-level oversight across multiple concurrent integrations while monitoring risks, dependencies, KPIs, value realization, operational readiness, milestone achievement, and business case commitments.
• Coordinate cross-functional communications, culture integration, change management, organizational readiness, and workforce engagement activities throughout the integration lifecycle.
• Drive continuous improvement through post-integration reviews, lessons-learned programs, best-practice implementation, and long-term enhancement of integration capabilities across the enterprise.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Operations, or related field

MBA preferred

Job description

Digital Realty is seeking a Sr. Director, Head of Integration Mgmt.

Office and Post M&A Integrations to lead the planning, execution, governance, and value realization of transactions worldwide. This role is the enterprise leader for post-acquisition integrations, ensuring successful integration of new businesses, assets, systems, processes, and teams while achieving acquisition objectives and value creation targets.