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M&A Integration Lead

Lawhive - New York, NY, USA - Hybrid - posted 2026-10-16

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Salary: USD 150,000 - 250,000 / annual

Lawhive is an AI-native law firm operating in the US and UK, backed by $60M Series B funding ($685M valuation) from investors including Google Ventures and Balderton Capital. The company partners with established law firms, providing an agentic operating system (including an AI legal agent called Lawrence) alongside marketing and operational support to help them scale. As Lawhive's first M&A Integration Lead, you will own the end-to-end integration of new partner law firms onto the Lawhive platform. This is a foundational role that combines hands-on execution with strategic process design. Key Responsibilities: - Lead complete integration lifecycle for partner firms: operational integration, product migration, legacy system replacement, data migration, and workflow optimization - Coordinate cross-functional teams (Engineering, Data, Product, Finance, Operations) to ensure smooth transitions from planning through go-live - Spend time onsite with partner firms to understand operations and drive platform adoption - Design and build repeatable integration playbooks and processes that scale as the company grows - Use AI and automation to reduce manual work and accelerate integration timelines - Manage multiple simultaneous integrations while maintaining quality and on-time delivery - Track and optimize key metrics: time to go-live, post-launch issues, user adoption rates - Shape the future M&A Integration team as Lawhive scales, setting operational standards This role is critical to Lawhive's US expansion strategy. The speed of growth depends directly on how effectively new firms transition onto the platform. You'll be at the forefront of transforming how law firms operate in an industry undergoing radical AI-driven change. Requirements: - Proven experience leading high-impact, high-volume integrations: complex business integrations, platform migrations, or implementations managed end-to-end, often juggling multiple projects simultaneously with demonstrated results - Track record building scalable processes: developed or significantly improved migration playbooks, workflows, or integration processes that made integrations faster, smoother, and more repeatable - Successful go-live delivery: migrations completed on time with data accuracy, strong user adoption, and minimal business disruption - Strong cross-functional project management: confident coordinating teams across Engineering, Data, Product, Finance, Operations, and external partners; skilled at managing dependencies and accountability - Excellent stakeholder management: builds trust, communicates clearly, manages expectations with senior leaders, technical teams, and frontline staff - Proactive, organized, data-driven approach: manages multiple moving parts, identifies risks early, uses metrics to continuously improve performance - Hands-on mindset: comfortable spending time onsite with partner firms and traveling regularly across the US Bonus qualifications: - Experience implementing or migrating case management platforms - Background working with law firms, legal technology, or professional services

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