M&A Integrations Lead/Senior Associate

Job description

🌟 About Nava

Nava Benefits is a modern benefits brokerage on a mission to fix healthcare. Nava was founded on the vision of bringing high-quality, affordable healthcare to all Americans, starting with the 49% who receive insurance through their employers. By partnering with healthcare and benefits leaders from the country’s largest companies, Nava packages their insights, tools, and best practices into a scalable, unified service offering that has helped smaller employers save 8-22% on their benefits plans.

Launched by seasoned co-founders, we’re a cross-functional, passionate group of leaders and operators intent on building the industry’s most diverse and dynamic place to work.

🚀 About the Role

We’re looking for an M&A Integrations Lead/ Senior Associate to own the integration lifecycle from the moment acquisition conversations begin, through deal closure, to full operational integration. This role is less about deal structuring and more about execution. You’ll be the connective tissue between cross-functional teams, ensuring we’re ready for Day 1—and beyond.

This is a unique opportunity to build the integration discipline at Nava, laying the foundation for scalable, repeatable success as we grow.

📋 What You’ll Do

• Lead integration planning and execution for acquired companies, from early conversations to full onboarding
• Partner closely with internal stakeholders (Product, Ops, People, Finance, GTM) to ensure alignment and readiness across all functions
• Drive planning and execution—ensuring every team is prepared and no detail falls through the cracks
• Develop integration roadmaps, timelines, KPIs, and progress tracking systems
• Flex and adapt as new information surfaces—this is not a static playbook
• Identify risks, anticipate roadblocks, and proactively surface solutions
• Act as a strategic thought partner for leadership during acquisition planning
• Lay the groundwork to eventually build a repeatable integration function and team over time

🎓 About You

• 4–7 years of experience in one or more of the following areas:

  • Management consulting with exposure to M&A or PMO work
  • Project management at a fast-moving startup
  • M&A integration roles with meaningful post-close execution work

• Experience driving cross-functional initiatives with high complexity and visibility

• Strong presence—you know how to command a room and build trust quickly

• Highly organized, detail-obsessed, and able to run large, multi-stream projects without dropping the ball

• Comfortable with ambiguity and fast-changing environments; you find paths to success as new info emerges

• Familiar with building playbooks and operating cadences around integrations

• Excited about owning outcomes and flexing your hours during crunch times (with balance during slower periods)

• Operate with a builder’s mindset—eager to help shape the future of this function

Bonus Points

• Experience with VC-backed companies or rollups
• Exposure to acquisition sourcing or pre-close work

💲Compensation

The salary range for this role is$120,000–$160,000, with the potential to flex higher for exceptional candidates. We’re committed to finding the right person for this critical role and are open to discussion based on experience and fit.

🌍 Working at Nava

As a remote-first company, Nava offers a dynamic and inclusive culture where you have the autonomy to thrive. You’ll be supported by cutting-edge technology, a collaborative team, and a shared mission to revolutionize healthcare.

💼 Benefits

• Health & Wellness: Medical insurance, including a $0 premium HDHP plan for individuals, Dental, Vision, Telehealth and Virtual Primary Care Visits, OneMedical membership, Wellhub, and a $50 monthly benefit to improve your mental or physical health.
• Financial Support: Stock options, 401(k) with a $2,000 match, FSA, HSA, and access to Origin Financial.
• Work-Life: Flexible PTO, 12 weeks of paid parental leave with 2 weeks of transition time, $50 monthly connectivity reimbursement, and company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance, with additional voluntary benefits like supplemental life, AD&D, hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness coverage.
• Professional Support: $1,000 home office setup stipend and access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Nava is committed to building a diverse team because solving healthcare challenges requires leveraging America’s greatest strength: our diversity. Candidates from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply!