Sr. Director, Head of Integration Mgmt. Office and Post M&A Integrations

Digital Realty; New York (NY); 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 planning, governance, and value realization of transactions worldwide, building a scalable IMO and ensuring Day 1 readiness and Day 100 execution.

The role partners with Corporate Development and business leaders to drive integration playbooks and metrics. The position oversees multiple acquisitions globally within a growing data-center portfolio, driving accountability, and executive

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Operations; MBA preferred.
• 10+ years leading M&A integrations or large-scale programs.
• Proven success building governance, operating models, and IMO.
• Experience with public companies and executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end integration planning and execution for acquisitions globally.
• Develop integration strategies with corporate development and business leaders.
• Build and scale a best-in-class Integration Management Office with playbooks.
• Manage integrated master plans, Day 1 readiness, and TSA exits.
• Establish governance, milestone reviews, and executive reporting standards.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across Finance, Ops, Tech, HR, Legal.
• Recruit and lead a team of integration professionals across regions.
• Oversee portfolio-wide risk, KPIs, value realization, and dependencies.
• Coordinate culture, change management, and workforce readiness.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Financial acumen

M&A integrations experience

Global / matrixed work

Change management

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Operations

MBA preferred

Job description

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Job Info

• Job Identification 8631
• Job Category Finance
• Job Schedule Full time
• Job Shift Day

Job Description

Sr. Director, Head of Integration Mgmt. Office and Post M&A Integrations

Location: Dallas, TX (Preferred) | Open to other Digital Realty office locations in the United States

Your Role

The Senior Director, Head of Integration Mgmt. Office and Post M&A Integrations is responsible for leading the planning, execution, governance, and value realization of transactions (mergers, acquisitions, and divestments) across the global portfolio. This role serves as the enterprise leader for post-acquisition integrations, ensuring newly acquired businesses, assets, systems, processes, and teams are successfully integrated while achieving acquisition objectives, operational efficiencies, and value creation targets.

A key mandate of this role is to mature the organization's Integration Management Office capability. The Senior Director will build and lead a scalable IMO organization, creating the governance frameworks, operating model, methodologies, executive steering processes, reporting disciplines, and talent required to support a growing M&A portfolio globally. This leader will drive accountability across functions, oversee integration milestones from Day 1 through full integration, and ensure a consistent, repeatable approach to integration execution across all transactions.

Digital Realty is experiencing a period of significant global growth, driven by both organic expansion and a rapidly evolving portfolio of acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic investments across the world. As we continue to expand our data center platform and enter new markets, successful integration planning and execution have become more critical than ever to realizing value, accelerating synergies, and delivering a seamless experience for our customers, employees, and stakeholders. This role will play a key leadership role ensuring the successful delivery of complex integration initiatives that support the company's long‑term growth strategy and operational excellence.

What You'll Do

• 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.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Operations, or a related field required; 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.
• Experience establishing executive governance structures, reporting frameworks, integration playbooks, enterprise standards, and operating procedures.
• Strong financial acumen with experience managing value capture, synergy realization, integration performance metrics, operational readiness, and business case accountability.
• Exceptional leadership, stakeholder management, communication, executive presentation, and problem‑solving skills.
• Experience operating within a global, matrixed organization.
• Experience within a leading management consulting firm (e.g., Big4, AlixPartners, Bain, McKinsey, BCG, or equivalent) supporting M&A integrations, post‑merger integration initiatives, carve‑outs, synergy realization, and operating model design preferred.
• Prior experience establishing, leading, or transforming an Integration Management Office (IMO), managing multiple concurrent integrations, overseeing Day 1 readiness and Day 100 execution, and supporting publicly traded companies and executive leadership teams preferred.

A Bit About Us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

A Bit About Our Team

Finance Transformation & Enterprise Integrations

The Finance Transformation & Enterprise Integrations team partners across the business to drive strategic initiatives that enable growth, operational excellence, and value creation. The team leads enterprise transformation efforts, integration programs, process optimization initiatives, and cross‑functional change management activities that support Digital Realty's evolving global business. Working closely with executive leadership and operational partners, the team ensures successful execution of high‑impact initiatives that strengthen the company's ability to scale and deliver long‑term shareholder value.

What We Can Offer You

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and you'll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you'll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We'll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Training and Development

Join our team and gain the support to succeed from day one. Our onboarding program prepares you to contribute meaningfully right away, with clear career pathways and continuous training to fuel your long‑term growth. From onboarding to specialized development, we equip you with the skills and opportunities to make a lasting impact across the organization.

Health and Safety

Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

Compensation range: $225,000 - $250,000 annually. This compensation range represents the Company’s good faith belief as to what it will pay as a base salary for this position at the time of this posting.

NOTES:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.
Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled. All applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or other status protected by law or Company policy.
Digital Realty is a publicly traded company (NYSE: DLR) with investment grade ratings from all three major ratings agencies.