Vice President Corporate Development
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Master's, MBA, PhD
Phoenix, AZ, USA
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Business & StrategyCorporate Strategy
About the job
Requirements
- At least 12 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate development, strategy, investment banking in semiconductor or industrial technology, or private equity.
- Deep knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing or equipment, including deposition, etch, lithography, metrology and inspection, wafer handling, and factory automation.
- Knowledge of process integration and device scaling trends.
- Knowledge of materials science, vacuum systems, controls, robotics, or semiconductor analytics.
- A proven track record leading complex technology mergers and acquisitions transactions end-to-end.
- Strong financial modeling skills, including capital equipment economics and service annuity models.
- Experience navigating regulatory reviews, including Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States reviews, export controls, and dual-use technology implications.
- Strong executive presence and the ability to influence the Chief Financial Officer, Chief Product Officer, and business-unit leadership.
- Ability to bridge engineering, product, operations, and finance perspectives.
- Ability to distill complex technical assessments into strategic business decisions.
- Ability to lead in highly technical and global environments.
- Experience managing sensitive intellectual-property-heavy deals with confidentiality.
Responsibilities
- Develop acquisition theses aligned with long-term semiconductor industry roadmaps covering logic, memory, power, image sensors, and specialty devices.
- Build and manage a pipeline across wafer fab equipment; metrology, inspection, and process control; plasma, atomic layer deposition, chemical vapor deposition, physical vapor deposition, and etch; lithography, cleaning, chemical mechanical planarization, and advanced packaging; automation, robotics, factory software, and service solutions; and adjacent technologies such as artificial-intelligence-enabled process optimization, sensors, and materials.
- Monitor competitive moves by leading wafer-fabrication-equipment original equipment manufacturers and emerging players.
- Lead deep technical due diligence with engineering and product teams, including process capability and differentiation, technology maturity, yield impact, customer validation, intellectual property quality, trade secrets, competitive barriers, supply chain, component risk, and manufacturability.
- Evaluate product synergies across the portfolio and fab workflow integration.
- Lead financial modeling, including total addressable market and serviceable addressable market analysis by device node and wafer type, gross-margin and cost-structure analysis for capital equipment, and service-revenue modeling with installed-base implications.
- Assess operational integration issues such as supply-chain scaling, manufacturing footprint, and quality systems.
- Lead the end-to-end transaction process, including sourcing, non-disclosure agreement, letter of intent, diligence, negotiation, and closing.
- Structure technology acquisitions, acquihires, minority investments, joint ventures, and full buyouts.
- Negotiate key terms with founders, boards, private-equity owners, and strategic counterparties.
- Manage relationships with bankers, legal counsel, technical-diligence partners, and consultants.
- Oversee internal deal governance across executive committees and Board approvals.
- Partner with engineering, operations, supply chain, and quality teams to integrate technology and product roadmaps; hardware and software architecture; manufacturing processes and factory standards; and field-service operations and customer support.
- Develop synergy cases covering bill-of-materials optimization, manufacturing-cost improvements, supply-chain consolidation, service-revenue expansion, cross-selling, and leveraging global customer relationships.
- Ensure retention of critical engineering, systems-architecture, and applications teams.
- Track integration key performance indicators and escalation mechanisms for risk management.
- Advise C-suite and business-unit leaders on inorganic strategy and competitive dynamics.
- Prepare Board materials, including market analyses, investment cases, and risk assessments.
- Partner with the Chief Technology Officer office, Chief Product Officer, group product managers, and research-and-development leaders to align acquisitions with technology roadmaps.
- Serve as a visible leader across the organization by developing mergers-and-acquisitions talent and capabilities.
- Establish relationships with semiconductor startups, research institutes, venture capital firms, and ecosystem partners.
About the company
ASM International designs and supplies equipment and technologies for semiconductor fabrication, focusing on thin-film deposition processes such as chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and atomic layer deposition (ALD). Its products are used in making microchips by depositing ultra-thin material layers with precise control at the atomic level, enabling smaller and more powerful devices. The company built a global footprint through operations in the Netherlands, the US, Hong Kong, and Japan, and separated ASML Lithography (a joint venture with Philips) to focus on deposition while ASML develops photolithography systems. In recent years, ASM has sharpened its strategy around ALD, a process that creates uniformly thin layers one atomic layer at a time, allowing continued scaling of semiconductor devices. The goal is to be a core supplier of deposition technology and tools that enable chip manufacturers to produce smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient semiconductors.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Almere, Netherlands
Founded
1968
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Q2 2026 revenue reached €1.0 billion, up 24% year over year.
- Management guided Q3 2026 revenue to €1.1 billion and H2 above H1 by 20%.
- 2027 revenue should exceed €4.6 billion, driven by AI infrastructure spending.
What critics are saying
- China mature-logic demand depends on export-control distortions, not durable secular growth.
- Local competitors in China already pressure pricing and threaten share in 2026.
- Applied Materials and NAURA can displace ASM if customers standardize alternative deposition stacks.
What makes ASM International unique
- ASM owns more than 55% of ALD market, with record Q2 2026 ALD sales.
- Its 2nm and 1.4nm wins embed ASM in leading-edge logic ramps.
- Spares and services grew 34% in Q2 2026, creating recurring revenue.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Flexible Work Hours
- Remote Work Options
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Wellness Program