Head of Marketing Communications

North Reading, MA (On-site)

$147K/yr – $237K/yrSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 5 days ago

Job Summary

Owns and leads Teradyne's global corporate communications program, shaping enterprise narrative and guiding executive communications, media relations, crisis response, internal engagement, and ESG initiatives.

  • Strategic advisory to the C-suite on reputation and communications
  • Oversees external and internal communications, PR, investor alignment, and ESG initiatives
  • Builds and scales a high-performing communications team and leverages data and technology

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead the global corporate communications strategy aligned with the company’s mission, values, and business goals.
  • Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on communications matters, including reputation management, media engagement, and crisis response.
  • Lead communications in a dynamic environment including strategic shifts, organizational and leadership transitions, and evolving market conditions. Help build understanding, alignment, and confidence across employees, investors, customers, and the broader market.
  • Lead internal communications to foster employee engagement, alignment, and culture through effective messaging and storytelling.
  • Lead both external industry and corporate communications including public relations, industry events, and ESG initiatives.
  • Oversee marketing infrastructure including the corporate website.
  • Maintain crisis communication plans and serve as a key leader during issues management and reputational risk scenarios.
  • Partner with Investor Relations and Legal to ensure alignment on financial communications and regulatory disclosures.
  • Leverage technology and AI to continuously evolve how work gets done and redefine the scope and impact of your role and the team.
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing communications team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, or a related field.
  • 15+ years of progressive experience, including 5+ years in a senior leadership role, with a strong background in enterprise-level corporate communications, public relations, or related fields, ideally within B2B technology environments, including exposure to public company dynamics.
  • Proven ability to define and lead enterprise-level corporate narrative, positioning, and strategic communications aligned to business growth and market priorities in a dynamic environment.
  • Demonstrated experience advising C-suite executives and influencing senior stakeholders across complex, high-growth organizations.
  • Deep expertise in global media relations, reputation management, and proactive storytelling across multiple audiences and channels.
  • Strong understanding of public company communications, including regulatory considerations and financial communications alignment.
  • Exceptional communication, collaboration, and influencing skills, with the ability to build alignment internally and externally.
  • Proven leadership capability with experience building, mentoring, and scaling high-performing teams.
  • Analytical and data-informed mindset, with experience measuring communications effectiveness and translating insights into action.
  • Strategic and creative thinker who can balance long-term vision with disciplined execution.

Benefits

  • Teradyne offers a variety of robust health and well-being benefit programs, including medical, dental, vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, and more.  Please click here to see details .

Teradyne

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Teradyne brings high-quality innovations such as smart devices, life-saving medical equipment and data storage systems to market, faster. Its advanced test solutions for semiconductors, electronic systems, wireless devices and more ensure that products perform as they were designed. Its robotics offerings include collaborative and mobile robots that help manufacturers of all sizes improve productivity and lower costs. Teradyne employs over 6,500 people worldwide.The Semiconductor Test Division is the world's largest supplier of semiconductor test equipment for logic, RF, analog, power, mixed-signal and memory technologies. The System Test Group is a global leader in electronics testing solutions serving the world's leading original equipment manufacturers, electronics manufacturing services suppliers, and hard disk drive makers. The Wireless Test segment, LitePoint, is focused on reducing the time to market and cost of system level test for wireless products operating on WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, and cellular phone networks.Teradyne Robotics, consisting of Universal Robots and MiR, provides low-cost, easy-to-deploy and simple-to-program robots that work side by side with production workers to improve quality and increase manufacturing efficiency.

Founded in 1960
North Reading, Massachusetts, USA
5.6K employees (149 in marketing)
87% recommend to a friend
84% CEO approval

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