Director of Acquisition Integration

ABC Financial Services • Remote TX, TX

4d • $160,000 - $178,000 • Remote

About The Position

The Director of Acquisition Integration builds ABC Fitness’s repeatable model for integrating acquired companies and leads integrations from pre-close planning through full integration. Reporting to the VP, Enterprise Operations, this high-visibility role develops the playbook, governance, and tooling to integrate acquired companies across people, products, go-to-market, client service, global services, and systems. The role partners closely with Corporate Development, functional leaders, and the executive team to make integrations faster and more successful.

Requirements

• 10+ years in strategy, operations, or program leadership, including hands-on leadership of post-close integration for at least five acquisitions.
• Integration experience in SaaS or technology companies, ideally integrating acquired products and customers into the acquirer’s platform.
• Track record of building repeatable frameworks, playbooks, or operating models from scratch.
• Working knowledge of integration across HR, finance, legal, go-to-market, product, engineering, customer success, and IT.
• Executive presence and ability to lead through influence across functions.
• Strong program leadership, communication, and decision-making skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience at a private equity-backed company or serial acquirer with a formal integration management office.
• Payments and/or vertical SaaS experience.
• Experience integrating international teams and entities.
• PMP, PgMP, or change management certification.
• Experience using Jira, Confluence, and AI tools to accelerate planning and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Build and own ABC’s acquisition integration playbook, covering every function and phase from pre-close through full integration.
• Define the questions, activities, timing, owners, and exit criteria each function needs to integrate an acquired company.
• Lead each new integration end to end, from signing through full integration.
• Partner with Corporate Development during diligence to assess integration risks, costs, and dependencies.
• Translate each deal thesis into an integration plan focused on value drivers and critical decisions, with functional ownership for each workstream.
• Own Day 1 readiness, including employee and customer communications, systems access, and payroll and benefits continuity, in partnership with functional leaders.
• Establish and run integration governance, including the steering committee, functional ownership, workstream cadence, risk tracking, and escalation.
• Protect customer and employee retention through platform migration, onboarding, support transitions, and change management.
• Develop an integration scorecard and report progress to executive leadership.
• Maintain the playbook and improve it through a retrospective after every integration.
• Partner with the Enterprise Program Management Office to scale program management support as deal volume grows.

Benefits

• Open PTO policy.
• Quarterly Days of Disconnect.
• Parental and Pawternity Leave.
• Quarterly fitness reimbursement.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Premium Calm App subscription for the employee and up to four dependents over age 16.
• Other benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed