Mergers & Acquisitions Integration Manager

CHAOS Industries•El Segundo, CA

22h•$150,000 - $170,000•Onsite

About The Position

CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. The company's products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats. CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding from leading investors, including 8VC, Accel, and Valor Equity Partners. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London. For more information, please visit www.chaosinc.com. Role Overview: CHAOS Industries is an active acquirer, and the pace of that activity is only increasing. The M&A Integration Manager will own the work that begins the moment a deal signs by turning deal terms into an operating plan and tracking the success metrics associated with the transaction. This role required cross-functional process management between Corporate Development, Legal, Finance, HR, Engineering, and the acquired company's leadership team, and is accountable for making sure nothing that was negotiated in the deal gets lost, delayed, or misapplied during execution. This is a build role. You will design CHAOS' integration playbook, run it on live deals, and refine it over time.

Requirements

6+ years in M&A integration, corporate development, or a related PMO/transformation role, ideally with direct exposure to post-close execution
Track record running multi-workstream plans across Finance, HR, Legal, IT, and other groups with hard deadlines and multiple stakeholders
Comfort operating in ambiguity on time-sensitive deals, with the judgment to know when to escalate versus resolve
Excellent written and verbal communication; able to brief executives concisely and hold leadership accountable to integration commitments
Bachelor's degree required

Nice To Haves

Experience in defense and/or aerospace preferred but not required
MBA or equivalent experience a plus

Responsibilities

Own post-signing integration planning end to end: building and executing the concrete 30/60/100-day plan that turns deal terms into operational reality
Serve as the primary point of continuity between the deal team and the business, ensuring integration commitments made during diligence and negotiation are actually delivered
Stand up and run cross-functional integration workstreams spanning Finance, People, Legal, IT, Engineering, Supply Chain, Facilities, and more with clear owners, milestones, and escalation paths
Track and report integration synergies, cost and revenue, against the assumptions used to justify the deal
Identify and manage integration risk, including disputes over deal terms (working capital adjustments, compensation claims) that surface after close
Manage post-close resolution of outstanding diligence findings, including contract renegotiation, open source issues, export controls analysis, and other potential areas of business risk
Build and maintain the standard integration playbook, templates, and cadence so each subsequent deal executes faster and more effectively