Vice President, Growth Strategy

Job Description

VP Growth Strategy

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About Us

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Adeia Inc. (Nasdaq: ADEA) develops foundational innovations that shape how the world computes, connects and experiences entertainment. Its inventions span a broad range of semiconductor and media technologies, including 3D interconnect (hybrid bonding) and advanced thermal management for AI datacenters, as well as content discovery, personalization, and streaming. These inventions are licensed to leaders across the chip design and manufacturing, consumer electronics, automotive, digital entertainment, and e-commerce industries. Adeia’s innovations enable more powerful and efficient products, and more immersive, personalized experiences across billions of devices worldwide. Learn more at

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Position Summary

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The VP, Growth Strategy serves as Adeia's internal owner of long-term growth strategy capability, responsible for identifying, evaluating, prioritizing, and advancing new market and cross-domain growth opportunities beyond the company's existing core and adjacent markets. Reporting directly to the Corporate Strategy Officer (CSO) and operating as a peer to the core domain (i.e., Media and Semiconductor) Strategy Leads, this role develops the frameworks, market fact base, opportunity pipeline, business cases, and executive materials required to support long-term growth decisions.

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The role leads new market and growth platform strategy outside the existing core and adjacent markets, collaborates closely with domain Strategy Leads on growth opportunities within or adjacent to their areas, and develops management-led growth strategy materials for executive and Board-level review. The role integrates market, technology, IP, partnership, ecosystem, financial, and inorganic insights to inform enterprise strategy, long-range planning, and Executive-level decision-making.

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Key Responsibilities

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Long-Term Growth Strategy Capability Ownership

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• Own Adeia's internal long-term growth strategy capability, including the frameworks, evaluation criteria, market taxonomy, decision processes, and governance routines used to identify and assess new growth opportunities.
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• Define and refine long-term growth theses that answer where Adeia should play, why it can win, and how new opportunities can create durable value.
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• Establish repeatable methods for screening, prioritizing, and advancing opportunities across strategic, market, technology, IP, financial, and execution dimensions.
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• Partner with the CSO to integrate growth priorities into enterprise strategy, long-range planning, and Executive-level decision-making.
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New Market and Growth Platform Development

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• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize new markets, adjacencies, and cross-domain growth opportunities beyond existing Media and Semiconductor verticals.
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• Lead development and qualification of new licensing verticals and growth pathways that cut across or sit outside existing core and adjacent markets.
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• Assess market attractiveness, technology relevance, IP monetization potential, ecosystem dynamics, competitive structure, and strategic fit for prospective growth areas.
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• Define business models, monetization paths, licensing constructs, market entry approaches, and partnership or ecosystem models that strengthen Adeia's right to win.
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Opportunity Evaluation, Business Cases, and Prioritization

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• Build and maintain a prioritized pipeline of long-term growth opportunities, including recommendations to advance, monitor, pause, or eliminate opportunities.
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• Develop strategic business cases, investment logic, and opportunity assessments for priority growth initiatives.
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• Evaluate and qualify partnership, ecosystem, and inorganic opportunities with cross functional input.
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Executive and Board-Level Growth Strategy Support

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• Develop management-led long-term growth strategy materials for executive and Board-level review.
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• Prepare growth narratives, opportunity roadmaps, strategic options, tradeoff analyses, and recommendations for the CSO and Executive Leadership Team.
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• Translate complex market, technology, IP, financial, and competitive analyses into concise, decision-ready materials.
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Minimum Qualifications

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• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Economics, Finance, Technology, or related discipline.
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• Minimum of 10 to 15 years of experience in corporate strategy, growth strategy, technology strategy, strategic finance, management consulting, corporate development, or related roles.
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• Experience developing long-term growth strategies, new market entry strategies, growth platforms, or new business opportunities.
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• Demonstrated experience building business cases, opportunity pipelines, growth theses, and executive-level strategic recommendations.
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• Experience with IP licensing, technology commercialization, recurring revenue models, or IP-driven business models strongly preferred.
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• Experience evaluating partnership, ecosystem, or inorganic growth opportunities from a strategic perspective.
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Preferred Qualifications

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• MBA or advanced degree in strategy, technology, finance, engineering, or related field.
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• Strategy, innovation, financial modeling, or executive leadership certifications are beneficial.
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• Strategy or innovation consulting background strongly preferred, particularly where combined with operating experience in technology or IP-centric businesses.
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Location: Remote US

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National Range: $235,000–$285,000

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Bay Area: $272,000–$305,000

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Bonus Target: 30% of annualized base pay

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Restricted Stock Units Target (as a % of annualized base pay): 120%

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Life @ Adeia:

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At Adeia, we are dedicated to creating a workplace where all employees have a voice and

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sense of belonging, feel safe and valued, and are acknowledged for how their unique

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differences contribute to organizational culture and business outcomes.

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Our employees and their families are important to us, and our comprehensive pay, stock,

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and benefits programs reflect that. Adeia supports personal well-being, builds financial

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security, and enables employees to share in our collective success.

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Rewards include:

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• Competitive compensation (salary, equity, and bonuses) and comprehensive benefits are designed to foster work-life balance, care for your health, protect your finances, and help you save and invest for the future.
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• Generous paid time away from work, including flexible time off, holidays and sick time, health and wellness initiatives, and a charitable match program to help you give back to your community.
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• Great benefits, which vary by location and can be site-specific: employee discounts, transportation reimbursements, and fitness facilities.
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• A flexible, hybrid work environment combining the best of in-office collaboration and community-building along with the benefits of working from home.
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