Director of M&A Integration

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>We're transforming the grocery industry</strong></p> <p><span class="im">At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.</span></p> <p>Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.</p> <p><strong>Instacart is a Flex First team </strong></p> <p>There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. <a href="https://instacart.careers/remote/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://instacart.careers/remote/source=gmailust=1651869232122000usg=AOvVaw37OlxP8hAKN7nq4YwHQH7e">Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.</a></p></div><h2><strong>Overview</strong></h2> <p>Instacart’s Corporate Development team partners across the company to identify, evaluate, and integrate acquisitions that strengthen our products, expand our capabilities, and accelerate growth. As the Director of MA Integration, you will be the senior individual contributor responsible for translating deal theses into concrete, measurable outcomes through world-class integration execution.</p> <p>In this role, you will lead highly visible, needle-moving transactions in a fast-paced environment with high deal flow. You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, commercial, HR, legal, finance, operations, and communications leaders, influencing across functions to deliver Day 1 readiness and sustained value creation. This is a hands-on role within a lean, high-impact integration function, where you will roll up your sleeves, put it all on the table, and help us go far together.</p> <h2><strong>About the Job</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Own end-to-end integration strategy and execution for multiple acquisitions annually, from diligence input through post-close value realization across revenue, cost, product, and talent.</li> <li>Stand up and run the Integration Management Office (IMO) for each deal; define governance, workstream charters, decision rights, and operating cadence (e.g., Day 1/100 plans, weekly executive readouts, risk/issue logs).</li> <li>Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Commercial, HR, Legal, Finance, Operations, and Communications to deliver Day 1 readiness and seamless experiences for customers, shoppers, retailers, brands, and partners.</li> <li>Build and maintain integration playbooks, KPI frameworks, and dashboards; track milestones, budgets, dependencies, and synergy targets, and drive timely course corrections to keep outcomes on track.</li> <li>Lead TSA scoping and management; coordinate systems and data integration priorities (e.g., ERP, CRM, billing, identity), along with change management and internal/external communications.</li> <li>Serve as the primary executive liaison for integration, preparing and presenting materials for leadership reviews and aligning senior stakeholders around decisions and outcomes.</li> <li>Conduct integration diligence and provide input to deal models and theses to ensure feasibility, sequencing, and resourcing aligned to value capture prior to signing.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>About You</strong></h2> <p>Minimum Qualifications</p> <ul> <li>10+ years of experience in MA integration ... (truncated, view full listing at source)