Director, M&A Transactions & Strategic Planning

Teradyne is a global leader in automated test equipment and industrial automation, enabling customers across the semiconductor, electronics, and advanced manufacturing ecosystem to accelerate innovation and deliver high‑quality products at scale. Across semiconductor test, system‑level and wafer‑level test, photonics, and adjacent semiconductor capital equipment, Teradyne operates at the intersection of deep engineering, complex supply chains, and long investment cycles. Strategic M&A plays a critical role in expanding Teradyne’s served markets and strengthening long‑term technology leadership. As Teradyne continues to pursue inorganic growth, execution excellence across transactions is critical to protecting value and ensuring consistent outcomes.

Opportunity Overview

Teradyne is seeking a Director, M&A Transaction Management and Strategic Planning to establish and lead disciplined execution across strategic planning, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic transactions.

This role owns the execution operating model for transactions from early diligence through signing, close, and Day 1 readiness. The Deal PM is responsible for ensuring work is sequenced correctly, risks are surfaced early, dependencies are actively managed, and leadership has clear, decision‑ready visibility always.

This role also drives the execution discipline behind Teradyne’s enterprise strategic planning—translating strategy into an integrated plan with clear workstreams, owners, milestones, and decision points. It ensures strategic priorities are sequenced logically, cross‑functional dependencies are actively managed, and leadership has a consistent operating cadence with decision‑ready visibility on progress, risks, and tradeoffs.

The role partners closely with Corporate Development, Business Units, and cross‑functional leaders. This is a highly visible execution focused role, operating with senior leaders and shaping Teradyne’s long‑term strategic planning and M&A execution capability.

Key Responsibilities

Deal Execution Ownership

• Own execution of assigned transactions from diligence through close and early integration, with clear milestones, deliverables, and stage gates.
• Run the transaction operating cadence; maintain a single source of truth for status, risks, decisions, and action owners.
• Proactively surface execution risks, constraints and tradeoffs that may impact deal timing, value realization, or Day 1 readiness.

• Coordinate cross‑functional diligence and integration planning across Finance, Legal, Tax, HR, IT/Security, Operations, Sales/Marketing, Communications and other functions as required.
• Ensure diligence and integration plans focus on deal‑specific value drivers, integration complexity, and potential deal breakers.
• Lead Day 1 readiness and development of realistic 100‑day plans prior to close.

• Translate deal rationale into execution priorities and integration dependencies.
• Identify risks tied to value creation (e.g., roadmap continuity, customer commitments, supply chain exposure, operating model disruption).
• Partner with Corporate Development and business leaders to ensure execution plans appropriately balance speed, risk, and value protection.
• Strategic Planning Execution & Governance
• Establish and run the operating cadence for enterprise strategic planning (annual planning and periodic refreshes), including milestones, workstream ownership, cross‑functional inputs, and executive decision gates.
• Translate strategic priorities into an integrated execution plan and maintain a single source of truth for progress, risks, assumptions, dependencies, and decisions.
• Surface tradeoffs early (scope, timing, resourcing) and ensure leaders receive concise, decision‑ready updates with clear asks and ownership.

• Prepare concise, executive‑ready updates that clearly communicate timeline, readiness, risks, and required decisions.
• Ensure key assumptions, decisions, and rationales are documented to improve transparency and institutional memory.
• Process, Tools and Continuous Improvement
• Establish and standardize deal management tools, templates, and scorecards to enable consistent execution across transactions.
• Leverage modern M&A platforms, analytics, and AI‑enabled tools to improve diligence efficiency, risk visibility, and reporting quality.
• Capture post‑close learnings and continuously strengthen Teradyne’s M&A execution capabilities.

• 8–12+ years of experience in strategic planning, M&A transaction execution.
• Direct experience leading or serving as the execution lead for enterprise‑wide strategic plans and/or complex M&A transactions.
• Experience in technology, semiconductor, or engineering‑driven environments strongly required.
• Prior top tier management consulting and/or investment banking is required.
• Demonstrated ability to drive execution in ambiguous, fast‑moving environments with senior stakeholders. Comfort operating as a senior individual contributor with regular engagement with executive leadership and cross‑functional partners.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with comfort engaging executive leadership.
• Bias toward structure, documentation, disciplined follow‑through, and transparency.
• Engineering Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (MBA or technical master’s) preferred.

Teradyne values diversity of thought, experience, and background, and is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all employees can contribute and grow. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business need.

Compensation

The base salary range for this role is $159,200 - $254,700. This range is a good faith estimate, and the amount of base salary will correspond with experience and skill set. This range can also fluctuate depending on demand and location.

Incentive Plan: This job is eligible for discretionary bonus(es) based on financial performance.

Benefits

Teradyne offers a variety of robust health and well-being benefit programs, including medical, dental, vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, and more. Please click here to see details.