Lead, People & Culture Mergers & Acquisition Integration

At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012, we’re revolutionizing the real estate industry with our end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients.

As the Lead, People & Culture M&A Integration, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing Compass’ People & Culture strategy for mergers and acquisitions (M&A). This role is critical in supporting the company’s growth by guiding HR integration efforts, ensuring seamless transitions for employee populations, and aligning acquired teams within Compass’ culture, values, and business objectives.

You will act as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert, providing leadership, project management, and strategic guidance to business leaders throughout the M&A lifecycle. You will work to support the Director and Senior Manager of P&C M&A to uphold best practice and policy to drive successful integrations while championing Compass’ people-first culture.

As part of the People & Culture M&A Integration team, you will collaborate with Compass leadership and cross-functional partners to participate in HR due diligence and integration execution. Your responsibilities will include creating and maintaining HR M&A project plans, decision frameworks, and documentation best practices to ensure efficiency and alignment across teams. You will also collaborate with local P&C Business Partners to ensure a smooth transition of the acquired employees and hand-off post integration.

We are looking for a high-energy, strategic, and solutions-driven HR leader with strong business acumen, exceptional stakeholder management skills, and deep HR M&A expertise to help build and scale Compass’ growing organization.

Please note: this role is 100% in-office in our HQ NYC Office

At Compass You Will:

• Be a strategic and trusted advisor to the leadership we support, with client management and relationship building at the forefront of everything you do
• Provide leadership with guidance and best practices to support change management as a part of Mergers & Acquisitions 
• You will serve as a bridge between the P&C department and internal stakeholders (M&A central team, Legal, Payroll, FP&A).  
• Roll out programs and processes that improve the department’s M&A strategy
• Build compliance into all we do, including maintaining in depth knowledge of company policy and processes and legal requirements.

What We're Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree and 4+ year of experience in HR M&A; human capital consulting experience a plus
• Self-starters with track records of excellence across strategic, operational, and detail-demanding functional responsibilities
• Ability to operate, exercise judgment and solve difficult problems without direct supervision
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Articulate in both verbal and written communication
• Ability to effectively lead meetings
• Highly organized; ability to multi-task and handle multiple deadlines simultaneously
• High energy and positive attitude
• Operational Excellence
• Program and project management experience - drives critical projects and initiatives from conception to completion
• Leverages data insights in decision making - shares and uses data effectively to demonstrate risk areas within the organization  
• Strong business acumen - Understands organizational dynamics and can communicate with senior leadership effectively. Anticipates business needs to build out proactive strategic solution
• Agile. You’re an expert multi-tasker, independently prioritizing and ensuring all needs are met. You keep calm even when there’s a lot to do.
• Risk Mitigation Mindset
• Conflict resolution - Critical conduit to managing competing personalities in the organization
• Problem solving - Uses critical thinking to evaluate problems, gather information, and seeks to understand root causes 
• Uses sound judgment - Grounds all decisions in facts, effectively uses data insights and applies rationale common sense thinking to assess situations
• Emotional Intelligence
• Empathetic and engaging. 
• Builds and fosters relationships - Purposefully develops networks to build value through collaboration by fostering trust and building credibility with stakeholders. Demonstrates interest in learning more about key stakeholders, seeks to understand by asking questions, sharing pertinent information
• Integrity. You understand how to handle confidential information and sensitive issues.
• Ownership Mindset