Legal Operations Program Manager, M&A Integrations
San Francisco · New York · USD 132,000-165,000 / year · 6+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 6, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 6+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco · New York
- Salary
- USD 132,000-165,000 / year · Base salary
About the role
- We are looking for a high-impact Legal Operations Program Manager to join our expanding Legal Operations Team and sit at the center of our mergers & acquisitions (M&A) activity.
- This is a strategy-to-execution role focused on post-acquisition integration: bringing acquired companies’ legal teams, legal entities, contracts, litigation and matters, outside counsel relationships, and compliance obligations into the Lyft Legal organization.
- You will serve as the operating backbone for Legal across our most strategic transactions, owning the legal workstream of M&A integration in partnership with Lyft’s Corporate Development Integration Management Office (IMO), along with the intake and governance layer that connects the Legal team to deal work.
Responsibilities
- Own the legal workstream of M&A integration across global acquisitions, from integration planning during diligence through post-close, in partnership with Corporate Development’s Integration Management Office (IMO)
- Build legal M&A integration roadmaps with clear dependencies and critical path, covering people, entities, contracts, matters, and compliance obligations, and stand up governance, reporting, and escalation frameworks for each acquisition
- Prepare and lead leadership readouts on the legal integration status of each acquisition in scope
- Track the retirement of inherited legal risk and post-close obligations, and codify repeatable legal M&A integration playbooks to improve speed, quality, and predictability
- Act as the control tower across concurrent acquisitions, ensuring legal integration work is resourced, sequenced, and prioritized appropriately across teams
- Build and manage integrated plans, milestones, and KPIs, and drive execution across multiple complex, cross-functional deal workstreams simultaneously
- Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks, holding teams accountable while maintaining strong cross-functional relationships
- Maintain high-quality documentation, decision logs, and scalable processes
- Partner across Corporate Development, Finance, People, Tax, Security, and the business to understand each deal’s integration plan and identify impacts on the Legal team’s people, processes, and organization
- Support diligence and signing-to-close workstreams, including data room logistics, tracking conditions to close, and managing transaction document repositories
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree or higher, preferred
- At least 6+ years of experience in legal operations, BizOps, program management, or consulting, with direct experience in post-merger / post-acquisition integration or large-scale M&A program management
- Excellent written and communication skills, with executive presence and the ability to drive clarity across senior stakeholders
- Understanding of financial management principles, including deal budgets and integration cost tracking
- Experience supporting corporate transactions, due diligence, and post-close integration of acquired companies, ideally in partnership with an Integration Management Office (IMO)
- Familiarity with cross-border and multi-jurisdictional matters
- Ability to operate in ambiguity and drive outcomes in high-stakes, fast-moving environments
- Strong organizational thinking — understanding how people, processes, and obligations connect when two companies come together
- Strong business partnering skills with a commitment to professionalism, collegiality, and transparency
- Proactive entrepreneurial approach to recognizing needs, solving problems, anticipating issues and developing solutions
Preferred qualifications
- European experience a plus
- Experience with Onit, Legal Tracker, Ironclad, Evisort, Tonkean, or equivalent tools, and Google Suite, a plus
Benefits
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
- Mental health benefits
- Family building benefits
- Child care and pet benefits
- 401(k) plan to help save for your future
- Discretionary paid time off for salaried team members (15 days paid time off for hourly team members) in addition to 12 observed holidays
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave
- Subsidized commuter benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
Workplace
- This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule
- Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays
- Hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year
Skills
- Onit
- Legal Tracker
- Ironclad
- Evisort
- Tonkean
- Google Suite
