Vice President of Products

Mission

The Vice President of Products will assume responsibility for leading, planning, and driving the vision, business initiatives, and growth of Mattson’s product portfolio. Develop, implement, and manage an effective product and business plan based on a sound understanding of the market and technology. Success will be measured in product penetration and market share gain.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and improve world-class products and technology for applications according to customer requirements.
• Define future plasma and thermal product requirements, product introduction strategy, financial analysis, and sales support materials that benefit product penetration.
• Leverage and maintain strong industry relationships with the customers to ensure product differentiation for existing and new applications, account penetration, and substantial market share gains.
• Determine the critical skills required and the staffing levels necessary to meet business objectives.
• Demonstrate effective leadership skills in inspiring, driving, and executing results through others, developing and/or upgrading talent as needed to ensure success.
• Develop clear priorities that achieve the highest return on the organization’s resource utilization.
• Successfully manage the Mattson Technology demo lab, including the availability of adequate equipment to meet customer requirements. Execute customer demonstrations flawlessly.
• Establish CoO targets and COGS targets to achieve the best possible Order Contribution/Growth Margin-targets for Mattson’s products.
• Drive supply chain management and cost efficiency in conjunction with Operations.
• Promote Operational Excellence in all business processes.
• Work closely and effectively with Mattson Technology’s Senior Management Team and other senior management executives within a highly matrixed, geographically dispersed organization.
• Continue to significantly expand intellectual property portfolio.

Ideal Candidate

Recognized as an accomplished senior product executive with a solid track record in delivering semiconductor capital equipment to customers in the semiconductor industry. The successful candidate will have a recognized profile and proven track record of leading the continued growth and profitability of a significant semiconductor capital equipment business. The successful candidate will bring a combination of superior strategic and tactical skills and will have the ability to significantly contribute to Mattson Technology’s growth. The candidate must have a strong team orientation and a proven track record of creativity, entrepreneurialism, and results.

Qualifications Required

• Ph.D. or Masters in Physics, Physical Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Semiconductor Device Physics, or Materials Sciences.
• Strong technical expertise in Plasma/thermal with a track record of delivering products to market.
• True hardware and applications product leader with deep insight into mechanical, RF design and their interaction with on-wafer results.
• Demonstrated success in design for optimizing tool performance, defects, throughput, and cost of ownership.
• Working knowledge of semiconductor device physics is strongly preferred.
• Experience in project management, R&D, innovation, business processes, and marketing.
• Solid business acumen, P&L and general management experience preferred.
• Proven track record for building and managing high-performing teams.

Key Personality Attributes

• A mission-driven individual committed to the mission and success of the company.
• Intelligent, agile, and structured thinker able to innovate and create a proven, winning engineering team with a strong sense of urgency, accountability, and performance distinguished by excellent business acumen, operational execution, and customer-centric thinking.
• Communicates openly and effectively internally up, down, and across the organization and externally with the customer base. States expectations and objectives to direct reports consistently and promptly.
• Able to understand and prioritize between current and imminent milestones and future deliverables.
• Confidence, ambition, desire, and energy are necessary to blend culturally with the management team.
• Self-motivated, hands-on, with the ability to execute and implement change.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to reconcile different points of view and establish and maintain excellent relationships quickly and credibly.
• Maturity and good judgment, ability to maintain a good balance between risk-taking and caution.
• Unquestionable integrity, credibility, and character, demonstrated in high moral and ethical behavior.

This pivotal hire is a highly successful executive and leader who will play a major role in Mattson's continued growth.