[Remote] Principle Strategist, Photonics Business Unit

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 1Finity, a Fujitsu company, provides communications network infrastructure through open optical and wireless networking, network automation, and applied AI/ML. The Principal Strategist will serve as a strategic thought partner to Photonics Systems Business Unit leadership, developing strategic hypotheses, framing decisions and tradeoffs, and bringing external perspectives on markets, competition, customers, and technology trends.


Responsibilities

  • Develop and articulate clear strategic hypotheses across markets, buyers, technologies, and business models
  • Explicitly frame assumptions, constraints, risks, and “what would have to be true” for strategic options to succeed
  • Act as a constructive challenger to prevailing assumptions, legacy thinking, and implicit tradeoffs
  • Frame strategic options, tradeoffs, and implications to enable leadership decision‑making
  • Convert ambiguity into actionable strategic choices, including clarifying where PSBU should not invest or compete
  • Influence decisions upstream—before they are embedded into plans, portfolios, or execution mechanisms
  • Maintain an external view of buyer behavior, ecosystem dynamics, competitive moves, and technology inflection points
  • Frame competition at the strategic level, including who 1Finity competes with, on which dimensions, and why those dimensions matter
  • Synthesize weak signals and emerging trends into insight relevant to PSBU’s long‑term direction

Skills

  • 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

Benefits

  • Highly competitive compensation, benefits, and career development opportunities
  • Flexible options for working your way
  • Short-term incentive based on company results and individual performance
  • A full range of health benefits
  • 401K benefits
  • Other benefits

Company Overview

  • Fujitsu is a information & communications technology equipment and services firm providing IT & IT infrastructure and other services. It was founded in 1935, and is headquartered in Tokyo, Tokyo, JPN, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is

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