Corporate Development Integration Lead

About the role

The Corporate Development Integration Lead will oversee the critical phases of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) post-signing, ensuring successful integration and operational follow-through. This role bridges M&A execution with operational excellence, focusing on defining and scaling the integration playbook, building repeatable processes, and driving day-one and day-100 integration execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead confirmatory diligence workstreams post-LOI, coordinating with legal, finance, product, engineering, and research teams to validate the strategic and technical thesis before deal close.
• Develop and maintain due diligence frameworks tailored to Anthropic's acquisition types, ensuring consistent and thorough assessment of technical assets, talent quality, IP, and organizational fit.
• Own the integration readiness assessment, identifying risks, flagging cultural or operational gaps, and providing go/no-go input to deal sponsors before signing.
• Design and own end-to-end integration plans for each transaction, covering organizational structure, reporting lines, tooling migration, product roadmap alignment, and day-one operational continuity.
• Build and maintain a scalable integration playbook, establishing best practices, templates, and decision frameworks that can be reused across future deals.
• Develop integration timelines and milestones in close coordination with product, engineering, HR, IT, and legal to ensure cross-functional alignment before and at close.
• Facilitate introductions and relationship-building between acquired teams and internal stakeholders during the planning phase to accelerate ramp and reduce post-close friction.
• Model financial and operational scenarios to stress-test integration assumptions and identify contingency plans.
• Drive day-one and day-100 integration execution, tracking milestones against plan and escalating blockers to deal sponsors and executive leadership in real time.
• Partner with HR and people managers to design onboarding and retention plans for key talent, with particular focus on acquired engineering, research, and product leaders.
• Conduct post-integration retrospectives to capture lessons learned, measure outcomes against the original deal thesis, and feed insights back into future integration planning.
• Build and report integration KPIs to leadership, including retention rates, product milestone achievement, and operational readiness benchmarks.

Qualifications

• Possess strong technical fluency — either through prior software engineering or product experience, or deep familiarity with evaluating technical organizations and codebases.
• Skilled at building cross-functional relationships and can effectively coordinate across product, engineering, legal, HR, and finance teams.
• Excel at translating strategic objectives into actionable operational plans with clear timelines, owners, and accountability.
• Thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and can maintain both urgency and precision when managing multiple parallel workstreams.
• Have strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present integration status and recommendations clearly to executive leadership.
• Be genuinely excited about AI safety and aligned with Anthropic's mission to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Have 10+ years of corporate development or M&A integration experience, with a demonstrated track record of leading post-acquisition integrations at high-growth technology companies.
• Direct experience in AI/ML companies or deep learning research environments, with an understanding of the unique talent dynamics in frontier AI.
• Built or significantly contributed to a corporate development integration function, including the creation of playbooks, frameworks, and repeatable processes.
• Experience with acquihire integrations, including deep familiarity with technical talent retention and the unique challenges of integrating small, high-output engineering teams.
• Experience with international or cross-border transaction integration, including navigating differing cultural norms and regulatory requirements.