Program Manager, IT – M&A Integration (6 month contract)

About the role

We have an opportunity for a Senior Program Manager, M&A Integration - IT Systems and Tools contractor to join our Office of the President team in a remote capacity in the Western US in an initial 6-month contract, reporting to the Senior Program Manager, Integration Management Office.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional planning and execution for systems, processes, and tools integration across the M&A lifecycle.
• Serve as the program management connective layer across IT, Information Security, People, Finance, Product, Sales, Support, and acquired-company teams, ensuring Day 1 readiness, reducing operational disruption, and delivering a coordinated path to the target state.
• Manage milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and readiness reporting across application, infrastructure, identity, access, data, collaboration, and end-user technology domains.
• Collaborate closely with executive sponsors, workstream leads, technical teams, and business stakeholders.
• Evolve repeatable integration practices and responsibly apply AI-enabled productivity, analytics, and automation tools to improve program visibility and execution.
• Own the integrated IT systems and tools workplan across pre-close, Day 1, post-close, and target-state integration phases.
• Coordinate systems inventory, application rationalization, migration readiness, data movement, and legacy-tool retirement activities.
• Establish milestones, dependencies, critical path items, risks, issues, decisions, and readiness checkpoints across technical and business teams.
• Run cross-functional working sessions and operating cadences that drive accountability, resolve blockers, and maintain alignment.
• Partner with IT, Information Security, HR, Finance, Sales, Product, Support, and acquired-company stakeholders to define sequencing, ownership, and transition requirements.
• Track identity, access, endpoint, network, collaboration, infrastructure, security, and business-application readiness for close and post-close operations.
• Prepare concise executive updates that summarize progress, critical decisions, risks, dependencies, resource needs, and value realization.
• Maintain integrated plans, RAID logs, decision registers, dashboards, playbooks, cutover plans, and transition documentation.
• Use Microsoft 365, Teams, Planner, SharePoint, Power BI, and approved AI capabilities such as Copilot to summarize meetings, draft status content, analyze program data, identify action-item trends, and reduce follow-up effort while validating outputs and protecting confidential information.
• Define and monitor measures such as integration completion, tooling consolidation, service readiness, security posture, operational stability, and technology synergy realization.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in program management, technology integration, IT transformation, PMO, or strategic operations.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional technology programs with executive visibility and dependent workstreams.
• Demonstrated experience with M&A integration, enterprise transformation, systems consolidation, or operating-model change.
• Expertise in integrated planning, milestone management, RAID tracking, dependency management, cutover readiness, and executive reporting.
• Working knowledge of enterprise applications, infrastructure, identity and access, cybersecurity, data, collaboration tools, and end-user technology.
• Experience with Microsoft 365 tools such as Teams, SharePoint, Planner, Power BI, or comparable program-management platforms.
• Practical experience using AI-enabled tools for productivity, reporting, data analysis, workflow automation, or decision support, with sound judgment regarding privacy, security, accuracy, and human review.
• Proven ability to translate ambiguity into clear plans, decisions, owners, and outcomes while balancing strategic priorities with execution detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence senior stakeholders and facilitate decisions across functions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree and/or relevant project management certification preferred.

Pay

Hourly pay for this contingent worker position is $62-73.