Principal, Strategy and Acquisition - US
We are a leading global software company dedicated to computer-aided design, 3D modeling, and simulation—helping innovative manufacturers design better products, faster. With the resources of a large company and the energy of a software start-up, we foster a culture that encourages creativity, welcomes fresh thinking, and focuses on growth.
About the role
Siemens Digital Industries Software is seeking an experienced corporate development professional to shape inorganic growth through acquisitions, investments, and strategic partnerships. This senior individual contributor role leads the front end of M&A, developing investment theses, sourcing and screening targets, building the deal pipeline, and advancing priority opportunities from concept to approved offer. You will work directly with business leaders, strategy teams, and M&A colleagues across Siemens to deliver actionable recommendations to executives.
Responsibilities
- Shape where and how Siemens pursues inorganic growth through acquisitions, investments, and strategic partnerships, bringing a point of view, not just analysis.
- Build market perspectives, competitive landscapes, and investment theses that senior leaders use to make capital allocation decisions.
- Source, screen, and evaluate M&A targets and investment opportunities for strategic fit, market dynamics, and long-term value creation.
- Pressure-test how AI changes the calculus for markets and companies: which moats hold, which business models are exposed, and where value is migrating.
- Lead priority opportunities through offer development, working cross-functionally to build the strategic rationale, valuation perspective, and proposal that earns leadership’s commitment.
- Turn analysis into clear, practical recommendations that senior executives can act on.
Requirements
- Typically, 5+ years of proven experience evaluating markets, technologies, and companies and turning analysis into action. Experience may come from corporate development, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, strategy consulting, corporate strategy, or scaling a product or operating inside a high-growth software business.
- A sharp analytical toolkit: market analysis, modeling, competitive assessment, and strategic rationale development, synthesized into actionable insights.
- Equal comfort crafting strategy and implementing it. The role requires both developing investment theses and building the case to move live opportunities to an approved offer.
- Real fluency in AI and data, with a working understanding of how it reshapes product development, driven moats, and software economics.
- Ability to quickly get smart on unfamiliar markets, form a view, defend it, and update it based on evidence.
- Strong judgment, genuine curiosity, and clear, persuasive communication at the executive level.
- Direct experience in enterprise software, SaaS, industrial software, or related segments is a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree required. An MBA or other advanced degree is welcome but not required.
Skills
- Market analysis and competitive assessment
- Financial modeling and valuation
- Strategic rationale development
- AI and data fluency in the context of software and product development
- Executive-level communication and persuasion
- Cross-functional leadership
Benefits
Working at Siemens Software means flexibility—choosing between working at home and the office is the norm. We offer phenomenal benefits and rewards, as expected from a world leader in industrial software.
Pay
$147,500 – $220,000 annual salary, plus 10–15% bonus potential.