Project Manager, People Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)

Stripe • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

Stripe is seeking a collaborative, action-oriented Project Manager to join the Total Rewards Strategy and Enablement team. This role will primarily focus on leading business-critical People projects related to mergers and acquisitions (M&A). The Project Manager will oversee the People workstream from diligence and integration planning through close and post-close execution, ensuring coordinated efforts across various departments including Total Rewards, People Partners, Recruiting, People Operations, Legal, Finance, and Corporate Development. The goal is to turn deal-specific decisions into clear plans, manage ownership, track milestones, and implement risk-management strategies. This individual contributor role requires the ability to bring structure to ambiguity and effectively transition between strategic thinking and hands-on execution, ultimately supporting transaction timelines, minimizing business disruption, and creating a consistent experience for acquired employees. Additionally, the role involves building People M&A capabilities through repeatable playbooks, infrastructure, and cross-training.

Requirements

• 7+ years of project or program management experience at a global company.
• 2+ years project managing workstreams within the M&A lifecycle, including diligence, integration planning, close readiness, and post-close integration.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional programs from planning through execution.
• Experience building repeatable program infrastructure, such as integration playbooks, project-plan templates, readiness checklists, risk logs, or retrospective processes.
• Track record of turning ambiguous problems into structured, repeatable programs.
• Comfortable building new programs in a scaling environment while improving and standardizing how work gets done.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write executive updates, decision memos, and operator playbooks.
• Ability to guide project teams through complex work in a direct, approachable, and inclusive way.
• Experience managing senior cross-functional stakeholders across Total Rewards, People Partners, People Systems, Recruiting, Corporate Development, Legal, and Finance.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and adapt in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work effectively independently and across teams, bring structure to complexity, and follow through on details.
• Comfortable working with data and systems such as Workday and Greenhouse.
• Focus on the experience of acquired Stripes and the teams operating the program.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with change management frameworks, such as the Prosci ADKAR Model, and applying them to employee or operational change.
• Project or program management certification or training, such as Project Management Professional (PMP), Lean, Six Sigma, or a comparable methodology.

Responsibilities

• Project manage People M&A workstreams from diligence and planning through close and post-close execution, including organizational alignment, employee data, onboarding, recruiting, and people program integration.
• Serve as a central coordination point across Total Rewards, People Partners, People Operations, People Systems, Recruiting, People Support, Corporate Development, Legal, Finance, and Corporate Technology.
• Align plans, dependencies, decisions, and accountability with transaction timelines.
• Develop and run integration and change-management plans to provide necessary information and support to functional leads, acquired employees, and other affected audiences.
• Identify cross-functional dependencies, risks, and blockers early, coordinate resolution, and escalate issues as needed.
• Establish feedback and support mechanisms for acquired employees, such as surveys, office hours, and centralized support channels, and use feedback to improve integration plans.
• Build and improve People M&A infrastructure, including project plans, templates, checklists, playbooks, reporting, and retrospective documentation.
• Build capability across People workstreams through documentation, cross-training, and shared practices for more consistent future integrations.
• Support other business-critical and transformational projects across Total Rewards and the People team as needed.

What This Job Offers

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