Who we are...

AvantStay delivers exceptional, unique stays for group travelers. The company has built a tech-enabled millennial hospitality brand to be the new standard for group experience. We are venture funded and growing rapidly in the explosive $100+ billion dollar STR industry.

What we are looking for…

The Integrations Lead will work closely with the M&A and Leadership teams to drive strategic initiatives, oversee merger and acquisition integrations from start to finish, and work cross-functionally across the company to communicate related deliverables and objectives. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working cross-functionally and take a strategic and optimization approach to the role.

What you’ll do…

• Lead M&A integration efforts by driving integration strategy, supporting the due diligence process, developing and executing on integration plans, and measuring deal success against deal metrics
• Partner with executives, functional leaders, and their teams to ensure overall integration preparedness, resourcing, and alignment
• Build comprehensive integration plans, aggregate information, inform departments of deal progress and hold stakeholders accountable to ensure pre-transaction closing preparedness
• Identify and implement best practices for the M&A integration process, developing repeatable and scalable processes
• Rapidly identify issues pertaining to acquisition, succinctly communicate those issues to the appropriate teams, and work to resolve the issues
• Continuously improve integration capabilities by identifying and developing process improvements, best practices, and tools to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the team​
• Collaborate with target company leadership, ensuring robust internal and external alignment
• Manage deal integration project team that collaborates with functional experts across the company. Ensure project roles and responsibilities are clear and tasks are assigned correctly
• Own deal scorecards, milestones, and metrics reporting; track and own short- and long-term progress toward deal objectives.

What you’ll bring…

• 4+ years experience in consulting, project management, business operations
• 2+ years people management experience 
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Management, Operations or another related field
• Solution oriented problem-solving skills, with the ability to operate at all organizational levels
• Excellent organizational and project management skills; able to track and manage complex processes from start to finish
• Strong interpersonal skills and a natural ability to connect with others. Experience building trust and nurturing relationships across all organizational departments
• Effective written and verbal communication skills; ability to influence stakeholders and cross-functional partners, motivating and collaborating while driving results
• Continuous improvement mindset; ability to seek out and implement internal or external best practices
• Comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity and demonstrated experience managing conflict or difficult interpersonal situations
• Willingness to travel

Perks and Benefits...

• Salary: $100k - $150k + Bonus + equity
• Benefits and Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Team bonding and off-site events
• Complimentary and discount stays at AvantStay properties

When you join AvantStay… You’ll be doing work that matters alongside an experienced and dynamic team, transforming the way people travel and vacation. Your place within the colossal travel and real estate industries will leave you with a wealth of opportunities to feel both challenged to innovate and rewarded for your efforts. Of course, we will offer you pay and benefits, but we’re about more than that. AvantStay is a place where you can craft your own path to greatness. Whether you think in code, words, pictures or numbers, find your future at AvantStay.

Equal Employment Opportunity...We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer- and celebrate our employees' differences, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and Veteran status. Different makes us better.

AvantStay, Inc. is a proud member of PledgeLA, an organization that believes that Los Angeles will become the most diverse and civically-engaged tech hub in the nation. Our members, tech companies and VC firms or accelerators based in Los Angeles, commit to increasing their level of community engagement and improving diversity, equity, and inclusion within their organization and investments.