Mergers & Acquisitions Integration Manager

CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. The company's products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats. Founded in 2022, CHAOS Industries has raised $1 billion in funding from leading investors, including 8VC, Accel, and Valor Equity Partners, and is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London.

About the role

CHAOS Industries is an active acquirer, and the pace of that activity is only increasing. The M&A Integration Manager will own the work that begins the moment a deal signs by turning deal terms into an operating plan and tracking the success metrics associated with the transaction. This role requires cross-functional process management between Corporate Development, Legal, Finance, HR, Engineering, and the acquired company's leadership team, and is accountable for ensuring nothing that was negotiated in the deal gets lost, delayed, or misapplied during execution. This is a build role: you will design CHAOS' integration playbook, run it on live deals, and refine it over time.

Responsibilities

• Own post-signing integration planning end-to-end: building and executing the concrete 30/60/100-day plan that turns deal terms into operational reality
• Serve as the primary point of continuity between the deal team and the business, ensuring integration commitments made during diligence and negotiation are actually delivered
• Stand up and run cross-functional integration workstreams spanning Finance, People, Legal, IT, Engineering, Supply Chain, Facilities, and more with clear owners, milestones, and escalation paths
• Track and report integration synergies, cost and revenue, against the assumptions used to justify the deal
• Identify and manage integration risk, including disputes over deal terms (working capital adjustments, compensation claims) that surface after close
• Manage post-close resolution of outstanding diligence findings, including contract renegotiation, open source issues, export controls analysis, and other potential areas of business risk
• Build and maintain the standard integration playbook, templates, and cadence so each subsequent deal executes faster and more effectively

Requirements

• 6+ years in M&A integration, corporate development, or a related PMO/transformation role, ideally with direct exposure to post-close execution
• Track record running multi-workstream plans across Finance, HR, Legal, IT, and other groups with hard deadlines and multiple stakeholders
• Comfort operating in ambiguity on time-sensitive deals, with the judgment to know when to escalate versus resolve
• Experience in defense and/or aerospace preferred but not required
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to brief executives concisely and hold leadership accountable to integration commitments
• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or equivalent experience a plus

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company
• 401k with 50% company match up to 6% of pay
• FSA and HSA options
• Life insurance
• Free daily lunch
• ‘No meeting Fridays’
• Unlimited PTO
• Casual dress code
• Relocation assistance

Pay

Competitive base salaries ranging from $150,000 to $170,000, generous pre-IPO stock option grants, and (coming soon) annual bonuses. The stated range reflects targeted base compensation only and excludes additional earnings such as bonus, equity, and benefits.