(Senior) Technical Program Manager - M&A Integration (m/f/d) - Berlin

Responsibilities

• ▹Own the end-to-end technical readiness plan between signing and closing: define what 'ready' means, track every workstream, call the go/no-go for Day 1
• ▹Coordinate IT and workplace cutover: identity and system access (SSO, IdP, mail, productivity suite, engineering tooling), hardware provisioning, and office setup (network, VPN, Wi-Fi, meeting rooms, physical access)
• ▹Partner with Security and Legal on the security and compliance posture (access controls, data handling, audit trails, vendor relationships)
• ▹Stand up the technical integration workstreams between Freenow and Lyft, setting operating cadence, dependencies, and escalation paths
• ▹Cross-functional orchestration across IT, SRE, Infrastructure, Platform, Product Engineering, Data, Security, People, Legal, and Finance
• ▹Produce the technical readiness narrative for Freenow and Lyft leadership and the integration steering committee
• ▹Codify what you learn into a repeatable M&A integration playbook for future acquisitions

Requirements

• ▹Significant TPM, engineering management, or M&A integration experience with a track record delivering M&A separation, integration, or carve-out programmes, ideally including a Day 1 cutover under a new owner
• ▹A strong technical foundation in software engineering or infrastructure, able to credibly push back in architecture reviews
• ▹Working knowledge of enterprise IT and corporate engineering: identity providers and SSO, MDM, endpoint management, networking and VPN, SaaS provisioning, source control and CI/CD tooling, cloud account structures
• ▹Comfort operating in extreme ambiguity across multiple jurisdictions, time zones, and corporate cultures
• ▹Excellent written and verbal communication in English
• ▹Ability to influence without authority in a matrixed environment
• ▹Calm under pressure

Soft skills

About the company

Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions — following Lyft's July 2025 acquisition, the company is building an integration team to run the technical cutover and future acquisitions.