Manager, Technical Account Consulting (Mergers & Acquisitions)

About Rippling Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system. Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds. Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes. We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @ Rippling.com addresses. About the role We are looking for a seasoned leader to manage our Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Technical Account Consulting (TAC) team. This role is crucial for defining Rippling’s M&A implementation framework to retain existing customers while driving operational excellence to achieve margin targets. As a first-line manager, you will develop a growing team of Technical Account Consultants, engage on high-priority customer projects, build implementation playbooks, and coordinate cross-functionally to ensure a seamless delivery of services across multiple product lines. The ideal candidate is a resilient leader who excels in evolving, fast-paced environments and who leads teams through continuous process enhancements. What you will do Team Leadership & Development: Lead, coach, and mentor a team of M&A Technical Account Consultants (TACs), driving high performance, growth, and career progression opportunities. Standard Operating Procedures & Implementation Framework: Develop comprehensive implementation playbooks tailored to typical M&A business cases, following structured SaaS implementation lifecycles. Define processes encompassing technical discovery, systems and process architecture, data migration, configuration and integration builds, testing, go-live, hypercare support, and the decommissioning of legacy systems. Regularly assess and refine SOPs to drive excellent technical execution, facilitate team scalability, ensure productive cross-departmental collaboration, and secure long-term customer retention. Project Execution & Management: Oversee the team’s execution of complex, paid M&A services, including leading pre-Sales activities of SOW creation and closure, maintaining oversight of overall project health scores, and proactively managing and mitigating high-priority customer escalations. Resource Allocation & Planning: Manage team capacity, project requests, and forecasting across multiple concurrent, complex engagements, ensuring efficient use of resources to meet margin targets. Lead headcount planning and estimation model development to secure the necessary resources for future business growth and project volume. Cross-Functional Strategy: Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Sales, Support, Implementation, and Technical Account Management teams to ensure strategic process alignment, provide customer feedback to continuously innovate product functionality, and advocate for the team’s needs to service M&A activities and retain Rippling customers. Strategic Customer & Internal Engagement: Own high-impact customer interactions throughout the implementation lifecycle. Partner with Account Management on pre-Sales activities, including technical qualification, solution presentation, and contract negotiation. Act as the primary client-facing escalation point to resolve and simplify technically complex issues. Maintain strong internal influence to shape the product roadmap and technical tools based on customer needs. Drive long-term customer retention by delivering solutions that accelerate product adoption and ensure