Senior M&A People Experience Leader

Adobe; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 186,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe is seeking a Director, Employee Experience M&A to lead the end-to-end people strategy for transactions—from diligence through close and integration. This senior individual-contributor role runs deals independently, translating rationale into actionable EX integration plans and owning outcomes.

You will advise CHRO and senior leaders, align on org design, and continuously improve the EX M&A playbook, enabling more deals with consistent quality across regions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in HR, organizational strategy, or a related field, ideally within global enterprise environments.
• 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.

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.

Job description

Adobe is seeking a Director, Employee Experience M&A to lead the end-to-end people strategy for transactions—from diligence through close and integration. This senior individual-contributor role runs deals independently, translating rationale into actionable EX integration plans and owning outcomes.

You will advise CHRO and senior leaders, align on org design, and continuously improve the EX M&A playbook, enabling more deals with consistent quality across regions.