Merger and Acquisition Lead

Description

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives.

Job Description Summary: BITS M&A team provides M&A technology and integration leadership within the BITS organization (Business Infrastructure & Technology Solutions organization). In this role you are responsible for driving BITS M&A activities from due diligence through deal execution and integration in an organized, disciplined, and predictable fashion while partnering with PayPal Venture and M&A community (Strategy, finance, HR, Risk and Compliance, Legal, Go to Market and Product and Tech).

Job Description:

Meet our team:

We are a team of M&A specialists with technology background in Employee technology, Cloud Engineering, Data, architecture, and cyber security. Our team is based in AMER, EMEA and APAC to ensure coverage for different regions for M&A’s and Venture discussions.

Your way to impact:

This role will provide technology and integration leadership within PayPal enterprise shared services organization while in parallel supporting the broader PayPal integration, security and acquisition strategy. You will work closely with PayPal strategy team to understand the goals for the acquisition and partner with engineering, enterprise shared services and cyber security to formulate the plans for deal execution.

Your day-to-day:

In this role, you will be responsible for managing technology integration of new acquisitions into PayPal standards, business process architecture and business process gap analysis for acquired companies, driving the operations, coordinating the matrixed team of domain subject matter experts for due diligence through deal execution and integration; be a critical partner to BITS M&A POCs in managing dependencies

• You will assist with development of a global integration roadmap and strategy.

• Lead one or more integrations of moderate complexity or importance. With minimal guidance, develops an integration strategy and leads execution.

• Lead cross functional business process re-architecture sessions and plan to mitigate critical choke points with guidance.

• Address cross-domain integration gaps or misalignment of goals with guidance and collaboration. Ensure scope, benefits, costs, timeline, and risks are identified for each IT integration.

• Oversee, coordinate, and schedule relevant integration stakeholders including technology vendor(s), subject matter experts, technology service owners, corporate communications, corporate training, management, etc.

• Lead technology aspects of onboarding, application migrations, infrastructure integrations, support and services integration

• Facilitate joint planning sessions between BITS core team and acquired company.

• Change management and communications in creating integration launch plans.

• Partners across teams to create employee experiences that reinforce corporate branding and messaging.

• Conducts retrospectives and uses it for improvements for future planning. Acts with customer in mind.

You will partner with the PayPal M&A Corp Dev and Integration teams and be a customer champion to the acquired company employees.

What you need to bring:

You are detail oriented, meticulous, customer-focused, and have a reputation for getting things done. Moreover, you love operating in a dynamic and demanding environment, think critically, act quickly, and partner naturally. Good judgment, and team building skills are coveted.

The ideal candidate will have experience:

• Leading M&A's and large-scale implementations of infrastructure systems (e.g. UNIX, NT, e-mail, database, client-server, Internet/Intranet, server rooms, data centers, etc).
• Ability to lead complex architecture discussions alongside subject matter experts and domain architects to identify and document design option, during execution identify and manage partner, product and site dependencies.
• Experience with international and multi-site projects.
• Ability to engage subject matter experts to develop business continuity and rollback plans for all integration and cutover activities.
• Lead test efforts of all applications of the acquired company prior to network cutover to ensure minimal disruption.
• Literate/familiarity with information security, data platforms, site reliability/infrastructure, and employee technologies/IT program management methodologies, principles, and concepts
• Ability to influence where you do not have direct authority through strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work well with other departments and varying levels of management.

**We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply!

PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

Actual Compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience.

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is $96900 to $234300

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com

Who We Are:

To learn more about our culture and community visit https://about.pypl.com/who-we-are/default.aspx

PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 400 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit paypal.com.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected].

As part of PayPal’s commitment to employees’ health and safety, we have established in-office Covid-19 protocols and requirements, based on expert guidance. Depending on location, this might include a Covid-19 vaccination requirement for any employee whose role requires them to work onsite. Employees may request reasonable accommodation based on a medical condition or religious belief that prevents them from being vaccinated.