Sr. Director, Head of Integration Mgmt. Office and Post M&A Integrations

Location: Dallas, TX (Preferred) | Open to other Digital Realty office locations in the United StatesYour RoleThe Senior Director, Head of Integration Mgmt. Office and Post M&A Integrations is responsible for leading the planning, execution, governance, and value realization of transactions (mergers, acquisitions, and divestments) across the global portfolio. This role serves as the enterprise leader for post-acquisition integrations, ensuring newly acquired businesses, assets, systems, processes, and teams are successfully integrated while achieving acquisition objectives, operational efficiencies, and value creation targets. A key mandate of this role is to mature the organization's Integration Management Office capability. The Senior Director will build and lead a scalable IMO organization, creating the governance frameworks, operating model, methodologies, executive steering processes, reporting disciplines, and talent required to support a growing M&A portfolio globally. This leader will drive accountability across functions, oversee integration milestones from Day 1 through full integration, and ensure a consistent, repeatable approach to integration execution across all transactions. Digital Realty is experiencing a period of significant global growth, driven by both organic expansion and a rapidly evolving portfolio of acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic investments across the world. As we continue to expand our data center platform and enter new markets, successful integration planning and execution have become more critical than ever to realizing value, accelerating synergies, and delivering a seamless experience for our customers, employees, and stakeholders. This role will play a key leadership role ensuring the successful delivery of complex integration initiatives that support the company's long-term growth strategy and operational excellence.

What You'll Do: Lead end-to-end integration planning and execution for acquisitions across Digital Realty's global portfolio. Partner with Corporate Development, Acquisitions, executive sponsors, and business leaders to develop integration strategies and post-close execution plans. Build, scale, and lead a best-in-class Integration Management Office (IMO), including governance frameworks, operating models, methodologies, reporting standards, and integration playbooks. Develop and manage integrated master plans, workstream plans, Day 1 readiness activities, Day 100 execution plans, TSA exits, synergy realization targets, and long-term integration objectives. Establish and lead enterprise integration governance frameworks, executive steering committees, milestone reviews, risk management processes, decision logs, issue escalation procedures, and executive reporting standards. Drive alignment and accountability across Finance, Operations, Technology, HR, Legal, Product, and other key functional teams while ensuring successful integration execution and minimizing business disruption. Recruit, develop, and lead a team of integration professionals capable of supporting multiple simultaneous acquisitions globally. Maintain portfolio-level oversight across multiple concurrent integrations while monitoring risks, dependencies, KPIs, value realization, operational readiness, milestone achievement, and business case commitments. Coordinate cross-functional communications, culture integration, change management, organizational readiness, and workforce engagement activities throughout the integration lifecycle. Drive continuous improvement through post-integration reviews, lessons-learned programs, best-practice implementation, and long-term enhancement of integration capabilities across the enterprise.

What You'll Need: Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Operations, or a related field required; MBA preferred.10+ years of experience leading M&A integrations, Integration Management Offices, corporate development initiatives, or large-scale business integration programs. Demonstrated success leading complex post-acquisition integrations across multiple functions, stakeholders, and geographies. Proven experience building and scaling teams, governance frameworks, operating models, organizational capabilities, and integration methodologies. Experience establishing executive governance structures, reporting frameworks, integration playbooks, enterprise standards, and operating procedures. Strong financial acumen with experience managing value capture, synergy realization, integration performance metrics, operational readiness, and business case accountability. Exceptional leadership, stakeholder management, communication, executive presentation, and problem-solving skills. Experience operating within a global, matrixed organization. Experience within a leading management consulting firm (e.g., Big4, AlixPartners, Bain, McKinsey, BCG, or equivalent) supporting M&A integrations, post-merger integration initiatives, carve-outs, synergy realization, and operating model design preferred. Prior experience establishing, leading, or transforming an Integration Management Office (IMO), managing multiple concurrent integrations, overseeing Day 1 readiness and Day 100 execution, and supporting publicly traded companies and executive leadership teams preferred. A Bit About UsDigital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter. A Bit About Our Team Finance Transformation & Enterprise Integrations The Finance Transformation & Enterprise Integrations team partners across the business to drive strategic initiatives that enable growth, operational excellence, and value creation. The team leads enterprise transformation efforts, integration programs, process optimization initiatives, and cross-functional change management activities that support Digital Realty's evolving global business. Working closely with executive leadership and operational partners, the team ensures successful execution of high-impact initiatives that strengthen the company's ability to scale and deliver long-term shareholder value.

What We Can Offer: YouOur rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. Join us and you'll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you'll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We'll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us. Training and Development Join our team and gain the support to succeed from day one. Our onboarding program prepares you to contribute meaningfully right away, with clear career pathways and continuous training to fuel your long-term growth. From onboarding to specialized development, we equip you with the skills and opportunities to make a lasting impact across the organization. Health and SafetySafety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

Our Compensation Philosophy: Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

Compensation range: $225,000 - $250,000 annually. This compensation range represents the Company's good faith belief as to what it will pay as a base salary for this position at the time of this posting. Full time

Posting Date: 2026-08-27