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Finity, a Fujitsu company, is a global provider of communications networks for our connected world. We uniquely combine technological leadership and expertise in open optical and wireless networking, network automation, and applied AI/ML to design, build, operate, and maintain critical digital communications network infrastructure. Collaborating closely with ecosystem partners, we deliver transformative outcomes for service providers and network operators, and enable them to lower TCO, improve network performance, and increase energy efficiency.

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The Principal Strategist for the Photonics Systems Business Unit (PSBU) serves as the primary strategic thought partner to the Head of Strategy and PSBU leadership. The role operates deliberately in areas of high ambiguity and change—where PSBU must decide what to do next, not how to execute what is already decided. The role operates through continuous external sensing combined with episodic, high‑leverage engagement on the most consequential and ambiguous strategic questions facing PSBU.

The Principal Strategist brings an external‑in perspective, develops and pressure‑tests strategic hypotheses, and shapes compelling strategic narratives that inform leadership decisions and portfolio direction. This role does not own strategy governance, planning cadence, or execution. Instead, it exists to sharpen PSBU’s strategic thinking and decision quality in uncertain and emerging domains—upstream of formal plans, portfolios, and operating mechanisms.

• Develop, articulate, and have a position on 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

• Shape clear, credible strategic narratives that connect external market shifts, technology trends, and 1
  
  Finity differentiation
• Pressure‑test narratives for resilience under scrutiny and recommend which narratives are most strategically defensible, including counter‑arguments and investment implications
• Provide narrative input into executive strategy discussions, multi‑year planning, and leadership readouts

• Frame strategic options, tradeoffs, and implications to enable leadership decision‑making and offer a clearly reasoned recommendation
• Help convert ambiguity into actionable strategic choices, including clarifying where PSBU should not invest or compete, even when doing so challenges established plans or assumptions
• Influence decisions upstream—before they are embedded into plans, portfolios, or execution mechanisms

• Maintain a continuous external view of buyer behavior, ecosystem dynamics, competitive moves, and technology inflection points to inform periodic, focused strategic interventions
• Frame competition at the strategic level, including who 1
  
  Finity truly competes with, on which dimensions (e.g., cost, power, risk, ecosystem, control), and why those dimensions matter under different buyer conditions
• Synthesize weak signals and emerging trends into insight relevant to PSBU’s long‑term direction
• Serve as a credible internal voice for how 1
  
  Finity is perceived by customers, partners, and the broader market

• Senior, principal‑level experience in strategy or business leadership, with responsibility for shaping direction
• Direct industry experience in optical networking and photonics systems, including optical hardware, control/management software, and switching / routing, with exposure to real product, portfolio, or…