Legal Operations Program Manager, Integrations

M&A Integration Program Management

• Own end-to-end legal integration across global acquisitions, from integration strategy during diligence through post-close, in partnership with Corporate Development’s Integration Management Office (IMO)
• Build integrated legal roadmaps with clear dependencies and critical path, and stand up governance, reporting, and escalation frameworks for each transaction
• Prepare and lead leadership readouts on the legal integration status of deals in scope
• Implement value-realization and risk-retirement tracking, and codify repeatable legal integration playbooks to improve speed, quality, and predictability

Program Leadership & Execution

• Act as the control tower across concurrent transactions and initiatives, ensuring legal 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 workstreams simultaneously
• Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks, holding teams accountable while maintaining strong cross-functional relationships
• Maintain high-quality documentation, decision logs, and scalable processes

Cross-Functional Engagement & Deal Support

• Partner across Corporate Development, Finance, People, Tax, Security & Privacy, and the business to understand deal and product integration plans and identify impacts on Legal processes, systems, and organization
• Support diligence and signing-to-close workstreams, including data room logistics, tracking conditions to close, and managing transaction document repositories
• Coordinate a hub-and-spoke model that maps acquired legal teams and matters to the appropriate Lyft Legal functional owners, surfacing risks and tradeoffs early

Outside Counsel / Vendor Management

• Work cross-functionally with Legal, Procurement, and Accounting to manage outside counsel and vendor relationships for deal and integration matters, including engagement agreements, alternative fee arrangements, associated budgets, compliance with billing guidelines, and related internal and external communications
• Manage multi-jurisdictional and cross-border engagements (including U.S., UK, EU, and Nordic counsel), partnering closely with our Legal Operations eBilling Specialist on e-Billing, matter management, and platform optimizations

Entity Management & Governance

• Support legal entity integration, registered agent and entity management, corporate housekeeping, and governance harmonization for newly acquired entities
• Partner with Corporate, Tax, and Finance to maintain accurate entity records and ensure post-close compliance and reporting obligations are met

Operating Model, Technology & Reporting

• Help stand up and evolve the Legal integration operating model, defining best practices for integration governance, intake, and cross-functional operating rhythms — introducing structure without slowing teams down
• Own the intake and prioritization layer for Legal integration work, defining criteria (impact, risk, effort, strategic alignment), providing pipeline visibility, and facilitating prioritization discussions with Legal leadership
• Onboard acquired entities, matters, and spend into Lyft’s matter management, eBilling, and contract management platforms, leading the associated change management
• Develop, implement, and iterate on metrics, benchmarking, and dashboards that measure integration progress, legal spend, and the Legal team’s performance and efficiency