Principle Strategist, Photonics Business Unit
$154,840–$247,744 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Develop and articulate clear strategic hypotheses across markets, buyers, technologies, and business models, explicitly framing assumptions, constraints, risks, and conditions for success. Act as a constructive challenger to prevailing assumptions and legacy thinking to sharpen PSBU's strategic thinking in uncertain domains. Frame strategic options, tradeoffs, and implications to enable leadership decision-making upstream of formal plans and portfolios. Maintain an external view of buyer behavior, ecosystem dynamics, and competitive moves to synthesize weak signals into insights relevant to long-term direction.
Required Qualifications
- Experience shaping strategic direction within a complex technology business, including portfolio choices, market positioning, and growth priorities
- Industry experience in optical networking and photonics systems, with exposure to products, portfolio, architecture, or platform decisions
- Ability to operate in high-ambiguity environments, form a defensible point of view, and guide decisions forward
- Ability to translate technical, market, competitive, and business model complexity into clear strategic options, tradeoffs, recommendations, and narratives for senior leadership
- Experience with market and customer discovery, including synthesizing customer conversations, partner input, analyst perspectives, ecosystem dynamics, and competitive intelligence
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