Director, M&A People Strategy & Integration (AI)

Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States

Annual base salary: $219,000–$301,000 for candidates in California excluding the San Francisco Bay Area, Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington; $196,000–$270,000 for other listed locations. Equity, bonus, and benefits may also apply.

Company

Okta builds identity and security infrastructure for organizations, including solutions that secure AI and human identities.

What you will do

• Lead HR and talent due diligence across acquisition targets, assessing organizational structures, rewards programs, workforce demographics, contracts, compliance risks, talent retention, and cultural alignment.
• Model workforce costs, benefits, retention packages, severance exposure, and synergy targets with Finance.
• Build and maintain People M&A playbooks covering Day 1 readiness and First 100 Days deliverables across HR, Legal, Finance, and IT.
• Manage employment contract transfers, equity rollovers, restrictive covenants, immigration and visa transfers, works council requirements, and employment-law compliance with Legal.
• Coordinate HRIS migrations, identity and access management transitions, payroll cutovers, benefits vendor consolidations, compensation alignment, equity conversions, and retention programs.
• Design employee communications, offer-letter rollouts, onboarding experiences, executive town halls, and post-close retention initiatives.

Requirements

• 7–10+ years of experience in M&A HR and talent strategy, People Integration, or M&A Human Capital consulting, including end-to-end deal lifecycle management.
• Experience driving joint workstreams with Legal, Finance or Payroll, IT, and HR functional leads without direct line-management authority.
• Strong fluency in global and domestic employment-law fundamentals, compensation and benefits harmonization, equity compensation, and HRIS migrations.
• Skills in workforce data modeling, salary and benefits side-by-side mapping, and workforce financial analysis.
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a related field.
• Ability to align stakeholder priorities across Legal, Finance, IT, and HR under tight deal deadlines.
• Ability to take ownership of deal outcomes, drive workstreams, hold partners accountable, and resolve complex roadblocks with urgency.
• Ability to structure ambiguous, rapidly changing transaction environments and handle sensitive employee information with empathy, discretion, and tact.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree.
• SPHR or SHRM-SCP certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) and flexible spending account.
• Paid leave, including PTO and parental leave.
• Equity and bonus may be available under applicable plans.
• In-person onboarding designed to support connection and accelerate impact.
• Opportunities to lead strategic initiatives across the broader Total Rewards organization during periods of lower M&A activity.