Senior People Partner – M&A

Role Overview

• Lead the People due diligence workstream for acquisitions — assessing headcount, employment contracts, compensation structures, benefits obligations, pending litigation, and people risk across target companies.
• Manage TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings) and equivalent transfer-of-employment processes across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring full legal compliance and a positive experience for transferring employees.
• Design and execute end-to-end integration plans for acquired teams, covering onboarding, policy harmonisation, benefits alignment, payroll transition, and cultural integration.
• Partner closely with Legal, Finance, IT and the M&A team throughout the deal lifecycle — from initial stages through to post-close integration milestones — providing people insight that informs deal structure and timelines.
• Own employee communications for acquisitions: draft communications, FAQs, and integration updates that are clear, empathetic, and on-brand.
• Support compensation and benefits benchmarking for acquired entities, making recommendations on harmonisation and identifying cost or equity risk.
• Assess organisational design and reporting structures post-acquisition; support leaders through restructuring, role duplication, and change management decisions.
• Partner with Founders to ensure they and their teams are set up for success through integration and beyond.
• Enhance and maintain scalable M&A People playbooks, checklists, and frameworks that improve our integration capability as deal volume grows.
• Provide expert HR advisory support on employee relations matters arising from acquisitions, including redundancy processes, contract changes, and settlement negotiations.
• Maintain a data-driven approach — tracking integration milestones, attrition risk, and engagement signals for acquired populations and reporting to leadership.
• Support on generalist operational HR tasks across the full employee lifecycle, as needed.

Requirements

• Significant experience in a People Partner, HR Business Partner, or People Operations role with direct, hands-on involvement in M&A transactions — including due diligence, TUPE, and post-close integration.
• Knowledge of TUPE regulations and equivalent transfer-of-employment frameworks across multiple jurisdictions (UK, EU, US at minimum); confident navigating the legal and practical requirements of each.
• Proven track record of designing and executing people integration plans for acquired companies, from policy harmonisation and benefits alignment through to cultural embedding.
• Expertise in employment law across multiple geographies, with the ability to identify people risk in a deal and advise on mitigation strategies.
• Experience partnering with senior stakeholders in high-pressure, time-sensitive deal environments.
• Skilled project manager: able to run multiple integration workstreams simultaneously, prioritising effectively and keeping all parties aligned on timelines and deliverables.
• Excellent communicator — able to translate complex people and legal matters into clear, actionable guidance for leaders and empathetic messaging for employees.
• Analytical and commercially minded, with the ability to assess headcount cost, benefits liability, and compensation equity across acquired populations.
• Generalist people operations experience, across the full employee lifecycle, in particular for USA.
• Experience in fast-paced, scaling, or technology-driven organisations; comfortable with ambiguity and change as a constant.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI and automation tools to augment workflows and analyse data, with a forward-thinking approach to AI integration.

Benefits

• Competitive salary package
• Equity package: We believe financial freedom starts with our employees, so all employees have ownership at MoonPay
• Pay for performance equity bonus: Those who drive outsized outcomes receive outsized rewards
• Moonshot award. We honor exceptional impact
• 10 employees twice a year, each earning a $250,000 equity grant.
• Unlimited holidays: We give you the autonomy to choose when to work (and when to switch off)
• Hybrid working schedule: Work fully remotely or your nearest Moonbase, the choice is yours
• Private Healthcare benefits: To protect you and your loved ones
• Enhanced parental leave: So you can spend more time with your loved ones without a second thought
• Annual training budget: We support your training journey every step of the way
• Home office setup allowance: Create the home office of your dreams
• Remote working allowance: Those working fully remotely get a little extra for utilities
• Monthly budget to spend on our products and zero fee crypto transactions: Cultivate your inner DEGEN
• Employee referral programme: Great people know great people, refer them to receive 10K in USDC
• Regular remote company offsites: Meet your colleagues regularly for high impact in person sessions and hackathons
• Working in a disruptive and fast-growing company where excellence is rewarded