M&A Integration Lead

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

Stripe’s Corporate Development team focuses on evaluating, executing and integrating acquisitions while also making strategic investments that support Stripe’s broader mission of expanding the GDP of the internet. The team is small today, and works very closely with senior leaders across the organization.

What you’ll do

We are seeking an experienced M&A Integration professional with 5+ years of relevant experience to be based in our offices in either San Francisco, New York, or remote. Integrating an acquired company is hard, important work and is often the biggest determinant of whether an acquisition is ultimately successful. We take this responsibility seriously, and are looking for someone to join us in our work to help ensure that our acquired companies and their people get off to the best possible start.

Responsibilities:

• Help build our integration function, including the further development and execution of integration approaches and strategies on deals
• Serve as a trusted advisor to acquired leaders and Stripe acquisition sponsors
• Work cross-functionally with key stakeholders across Stripe to develop detailed integration strategy, plans and milestones 
• Lead the planning and execution of the diligence and integration process, including coaching highly cross-functional work-streams, managing regular integration meetings and driving issue resolution
• Celebrate wins, share challenges and report to stakeholders on program progress (e.g., Executive Dashboard, Consolidated Status Reports, Quarterly Board Reports)
• Conduct “lookbacks” on integration execution to ensure our program evolves and grows with Stripe
• Identify and implement improvements to our acquisition integration processes
• Conduct ad-hoc qualitative and quantitative analyses for strategic planning, investing and integration efforts

Who you are

• A creative problem-solver, who thrives in complex, ambiguous situations and prides themselves on staying one step ahead of potential issues
• A people-person, who derives energy from working across various stakeholders across multiple teams and companies
• A multi-disciplinary wiz with great attention to detail, who feels a deep sense of calm when they know they’ve orchestrated it such that all of the trains are running on time

Minimum requirements

• 10+ years of work experience in one or more of: M&A integration, corporate development, investment banking, consulting, human resources, or business operations 
• Strong, team-oriented leadership skills including the ability to identify, frame, and confront issues and make recommendations for resolution
• Looks for the “moments that matter” and has led complex change and communications efforts
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-growth and often ambiguous environments
• Excellent written and communication skills
• Experience with budgets and financial metrics