Legal Operations Program Manager, M&A Integrations
New York, NY · New York · San Francisco · USD 132,000-165,000 / year · 6+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 6, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 6+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- New York, NY · New York · San Francisco
- 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.
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.
- 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 legal entity integration, rationalization, registered agent and entity management, corporate housekeeping, and governance harmonization for newly acquired entities.
- Own the intake and prioritization layer for legal M&A integration work, defining criteria (impact, risk, effort, strategic alignment), providing pipeline visibility, and facilitating prioritization discussions with Legal leadership.
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
- Experience leading change management for teams adopting new processes, policies, and tools
Preferred qualifications
- European experience
- Experience with Onit, Legal Tracker, Ironclad, Evisort, Tonkean, or equivalent tools, and Google Suite
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 for hourly), in addition to 12 observed holidays
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave for biological, adoptive, and foster parents
- Subsidized commuter benefits
- Lyft Pink ridership program benefits
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
