HR Project Manager

Overview

Location:

Austin – onsite 3 days per week.

• HR operations or HR Generalist
• We need someone who can easily commute to the office 3 days a week.
• HR M&A Operations role involves supporting several key transaction activities.
• Be the hands-on execution partner for the HR M&A PM, translating project plans into reliable transactional outcomes and removing operational risk.
• Execute responsibilities in close partnership with TA, Legal, HR M&A Team, and other cross-functional groups external to HR.
• Gathering, validating, and sharing HR operations data such as Target employee records, payroll cycles, pay dates, and previous terminations during the integration planning process.
• Understanding, inventorying, and sharing processes like Target onboarding and offboarding with the Ops & Services Workstream.
• Identifying operational risks such as cutover windows and payroll timing conflicts, and documenting mitigation steps.
• Acting as a liaison with Ops & Services Workstream Leads and Team Members on deliverables defined in HR M&A Playbook – HR Ops & Services Workstream.
• Utilizing the HR M&A Playbook to build cutover runbooks, transaction checklists, project plans, and executing them accordingly.
• Executing the HR M&A Playbook to build, audit, distribute, and track offer letters and onboarding documents by jurisdiction.
• Coordinating with the HR M&A PM and HR Technology Workstream Team on data builds, audits, and migration reconciliation.
• Ensuring all acquired employee personnel files are transitioned to the appropriate spot.
• Assisting in the transition to steady-state HR operations, including knowledge transfer to Ops & Services operational teams.
• Capturing HR Operations lessons learned to update HR Playbooks for future transactions.
• The HR Operations role in M&A is very much execution-centric, responsible for preventing high-impact failures that could undermine integration success.
• The ideal candidate would blend process execution discipline, solid systems and data skills, practical judgment, and a service orientation to ensure a smooth employee transition.
• The priority would be an individual who is a systematic thinker, calm under pressure, and is comfortable in the ambiguity of a M&A transaction.

• At least 5 years of experience in HR operations or HR Generalist roles.