People Programs Mergers & Acquisitions Lead

Join Anthropic, a leading AI company, as a Senior M&A People Program Manager. In this role, you will own the People side of our M&A program, shaping deal decisions and leading complex acquisitions. You will set the direction and standards for all People-side M&A work, coordinate across various teams, and build durable program infrastructure. This is an opportunity to define how a frontier AI company approaches the People side of M&A during hyper-growth.

• Own the People-side M&A program end-to-end, including strategy, operating model, standards, and outcomes across all deals.
• Act as Corporate Development's strategic counterpart on People matters, influencing deal structure, timelines, retention strategy, and people-cost implications.
• Build the infrastructure that doesn't exist yet, including intake processes, diligence checklists, integration tracking, retention frameworks, and post-close retros.
• Can hold a portfolio of work — multiple deals, multiple workstreams per deal — and sequence interdependencies correctly (immigration before offers; entity verification before onboarding) without letting details drop
• Are exceptionally organized and calm under pressure, and communicate clearly and directly when timelines are tight or information is incomplete
• Experience across program management, HR/People operations, and M&A integration, including direct ownership of People workstreams across multiple transactions — not just participation in one
• Are comfortable operating with minimal oversight on long horizons, creating your own structure and clarity for others where none exists
• Have operated as a true partner to Corp Dev or a deal team: you've influenced deal structure, timing, or retention decisions, not only executed the People plan that followed them
• Build programs and systems that outlast you — playbooks, frameworks, and processes that others adopt and run without you in the room
• Know how to set direction and standards for work you don't personally execute, and keep the bar high with people who don't report to you
• Have 10+ years of experience across program management, HR/People operations, and M&A integration, including direct ownership of People workstreams across multiple transactions — not just participation in one
• Led People integration for international or multi-entity acquisitions, including immigration, employment legal, and entity-setup coordination
• Stood up an M&A People integration function or playbook from scratch at a fast-growing technology company
• Managed several concurrent transactions, or a deal pipeline, rather than a single deal at a time
• Experience guiding or mentoring other program managers, or leading pods/working teams without formal management authority
• Worked closely enough with Corp Dev to be trusted in target-facing conversations (management meetings, retention discussions, close-day communications)