Legal Operations Program Manager, M&A Integrations

About the role

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. 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, con...

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