Director, People M&A

The role

You will lead the strategic vision, execution, and evolution of the global People M&A function. You will orchestrate end-to-end deal lifecycles from due diligence through post-merger integration.

What you will do

• Serve as the primary People executive on M&A deals.
• Drive due diligence, organizational design, retention strategies, and employment law strategy.
• Design and execute integration strategies across Culture, Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, People Operations, and Systems.
• Architect and mature the enterprise People M&A Playbook.
• Establish standardized governance, automation roadmaps, and data-integrity frameworks.
• Partner with CorpDev, Legal, Finance, and Business Unit Leaders.
• Lead cross-functional People workstreams including TA, Benefits, Total Rewards, Global Mobility, and People Partners.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive HR/People Operations experience.
• 8+ years focused directly on leading end-to-end global M&A deals in high-growth tech environments.
• Proven track record of managing M&A programs across the full deal lifecycle.
• Ability to influence Founders/C-suite stakeholders, CorpDev leaders, and business executives.
• Deep technical understanding of global People workflows, international employment law, compensation architecture, and system integrations.

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Equity

About the company

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents.