Director, Strategic Ecosystem Partnerships

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The Role:

Entegris is currently seeking a Director, Strategic Ecosystem Partnerships to join our Materials Solutions team. This role will identify, develop, negotiate, and execute strategic partnerships, joint development programs (JDPs), technology licensing agreements, strategic investments, and inorganic growth opportunities that accelerate Entegris’ long-term growth across the semiconductor materials ecosystem. 

In this role, you will serve as a key bridge among Corporate Development, Entegris Venture, business units, R&D, Legal, Finance, and executive leadership team. You will combine deep semiconductor-industry knowledge with proven transaction experience to assess opportunities, structure complex commercial relationships, and create values through partnerships, investments, licensing arrangements, and acquisitions. 

The successful candidate will have a demonstrated record of independently leading end-to-end strategic transactions and a strong understanding of global semiconductor manufacturing equipment and materials ecosystem and market landscape, supply chains, and competitive dynamics. 

What You’ll Do:

• Develop and execute a strategic ecosystem partnership roadmap aligned with corporate and business-unit strategic long range planning process and growth priorities. 

• Build and maintain a prioritized pipeline of partnership, licensing, investment, and acquisition opportunities across semiconductor manufacturers, equipment suppliers, materials providers, technology startups, research institutes, universities, and industry consortia. 

• Support end-to-end M&A and strategic investment activities, including target identification, strategic assessment, valuation support, due diligence, negotiation, deal structuring, transaction execution, and integration planning. 

• Develop investment theses, business cases, synergy assessments, risk analyses, and executive recommendations for inorganic growth opportunities. 

• Structure and negotiate strategic alliances, JDPs, joint ventures, supply agreements, technology collaborations, term sheets, definitive agreements, governance models, commercial frameworks, and risk-sharing mechanisms. 

• Lead negotiations for IP licenses, technology-access agreements, know-how transfers, and cross-licensing frameworks in close partnership with R&D, Legal and IP teams. 

• Establish partnership success metrics, governance processes, executive steering committees, and business reviews. 

• Evaluate market attractiveness, TAM/SAM opportunities, competitive positioning, and ecosystem influence, and deliver executive-level recommendations on strategic priorities. 

• Establish a repeatable framework for evaluating and executing strategic ecosystem opportunities and deliver measurable growth, technology differentiation, and customer access. 

What We Seek:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Physics, Business, or a related discipline; MBA, MS, PhD, JD or an equivalent combination of technical and business education strongly preferred. 

• 15+ years of experience in semiconductor materials, semiconductor equipment, semiconductor manufacturing, technology strategy, business development, corporate development, or a related industry. 

• Demonstrated experience executing end-to-end mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, IP licensing agreements, JDPs, joint ventures, technology partnerships, and commercial term-sheet negotiations. 

• Recognized as a visionary expert with deep, broad-based knowledge of the semiconductor ecosystem and the ability to shape long-term strategy, innovation, and business direction. 

• Demonstrated ability to solve critical, highly ambiguous issues with significant and sustained organizational impact, operating with wide autonomy and sound judgment. 

• Proven ability to serve as a principal advisor, influence senior executives and external stakeholders, establish new approaches and principles, and set direction for others across functions and regions. 

• Strong knowledge of semiconductor materials and manufacturing ecosystems, with familiarity across logic, memory, advanced packaging, and AI infrastructure; working knowledge of relevant process areas such as CMP and Depositions. 

• Strong strategic thinking, commercial acumen, financial-model interpretation, business-case development, risk assessment, and value-creation skills. 

• Experience leading cross-functional due diligence involving Finance, Legal, IP, Technology, Operations, Commercial, and Regulatory stakeholders. 

• Executive presence and demonstrated ability to influence without authority, align diverse stakeholders, govern partnerships, and resolve conflict. 

• Experience engaging directly with C-suite stakeholders and operating effectively in a global, matrixed organization. 

• International experience across North America and key semiconductor regions in Asia preferred. 

• Investment banking, management consulting, venture capital, private equity, corporate strategy, or corporate development experience is a plus. 

• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally based on business needs; anticipated travel more than 25%. 

Supervisory Responsibilities 

This is expected to be a senior-level individual contributor role. Scope and organizational responsibilities may be scaled with business needs. 

At Entegris we are committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and applicants. Our policy is to recruit, hire, train, and reward employees for their individual abilities, achievements, and experience without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, marital or military status.