Memory Test Tech Segment PM — Strategy & Growth

Teradyne Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Health benefits

Job summary

Teradyne invites a senior Technical Segment Product Manager for Memory Test in San Jose, CA. You will own market strategy, lifecycle decisions, pricing, and GTM efforts, partnering with Sales, Finance, and Engineering to drive design-ins and growth.

You will lead cross-functional initiatives, manage five-year plans, and mentor less-senior team members while traveling 15–20% internationally and domestically. This role rewards deep technical and business leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.
• Typically 8–12+ years of experience in product marketing, product management, applications engineering, product engineering, test engineering, or related semiconductor roles.
• Deep understanding of semiconductor memory products, customer requirements, market dynamics, and competitive positioning.
• Demonstrated success leading complex product, design-in, lifecycle, or go-to-market initiatives in a matrixed global organization.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including experience with pricing, revenue and margin planning, investment trade-offs, and long-range forecasting.
• Proven ability to develop segment or portfolio strategy and translate it into clear annual plans, priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Excellent analytical, synthesis, executive communication, and customer-presentation skills.
• Proven customer-facing experience and ability to establish trusted relationships with technical, commercial, and executive stakeholders.
• Ability to influence cross-functional decisions and mentor less-senior colleagues without direct authority.
• Experience with memory ATE, test solutions, or complex semiconductor systems preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design-in activities by guiding market analysis, identifying priority targets, and partnering with Sales on account strategy, customer influence, outbound marketing content, technical collateral, and commercial agreements.
• Own the full product lifecycle for assigned products or technology areas, including product positioning, pricing recommendations, sales structure, licensing, forecasting, launch, sustainment, product changes, end-of-production, and last-time-buy strategy.
• Lead technical marketing and go-to-market execution, including competitive analysis, sales tools, technical marketing collateral, launch readiness, and messaging aligned with product positioning and differentiation.
• Manage segment financial planning in partnership with Finance, Operations, Product Line Management, Engineering, and Applications, including revenue, margin, R&D, applications investment, inventory assumptions, and long-term forecasts supporting LTB, E&O, and EOL decisions.
• Identify, develop, and sustain strategic customer relationships in partnership with Sales, with emphasis on emerging and high-growth opportunities across the United States, Europe, and Asia.
• Lead mid-term market segment strategy over a five-year horizon, identifying key market trends, competitive dynamics, investment requirements, and growth priorities that support long-term profitable growth.
• Develop annual segment plans with revenue, contribution margin, market-share, design-in, and investment objectives, and monitor execution against the plan.
• Provide technical expertise and consultative support to Sales on product selection, solution positioning, value proposition, and equitable and competitive pricing.
• Lead customer product presentations and roadmap discussions that clearly communicate solution capabilities, differentiation, business value, and fit with customer requirements.
• Influence cross-functional priorities and decisions across Engineering, Applications, Sales, Operations, Finance, and Marketing to resolve complex issues and deliver committed business outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and strategic context to less-senior Product Managers and cross-functional partners without direct people-management responsibility.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

MS or MBA preferred

Job description

Teradyne invites a senior Technical Segment Product Manager for Memory Test in San Jose, CA. You will own market strategy, lifecycle decisions, pricing, and GTM efforts, partnering with Sales, Finance, and Engineering to drive design-ins and growth.

You will lead cross-functional initiatives, manage five-year plans, and mentor less-senior team members while traveling 15–20% internationally and domestically. This role rewards deep technical and business leadership.