Strategic Planner, Photonics at Keysight Technologies in Santa Rosa, CA

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Overview Keysight is a mission-critical design enablement partner for organizations solving the world’s most complex engineering challenges. With deep engineering expertise and leading design, emulation, and test solutions, our ~16,800 employees help customers in over 100 countries accelerate innovation across communications, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace and defense, semiconductor, and artificial intelligence markets. Learn more about what we do . At Keysight, people come together to explore new ideas, challenge what's possible, and advance the technologies defining the future. Here, you'll find opportunities to do your best work, take your career further, and thrive in an award-winning culture . Learn more about our benefits . Responsibilities About the Role Keysight is seeking an experienced strategic planner to shape its growth strategy in photonics. You will identify and prioritize opportunities, translate customer needs and market insights into actionable business cases, and recommend where and how Keysight should invest. Working across business, product, and research teams, you will evaluate opportunities for design, emulation, test, and measurement solutions in applications such as optical interconnects for AI data centers, automotive LiDAR, and quantum photonics. Your primary focus will be strategy development and opportunity prioritization, partnering with business leaders to translate approved strategies into execution plans. Responsibilities Identify and prioritize photonics growth opportunities by assessing customer needs, technology trends, market attractiveness, competitive dynamics, and alignment with Keysight’s capabilities. Quantify total addressable market (TAM) and serviceable available market (SAM), distinguishing underlying application-market growth from the revenue opportunities Keysight can realistically serve in design, emulation, test, and measurement. Combine customer and ecosystem interviews with secondary research to validate unmet needs, market assumptions, adoption timelines, and commercial opportunities. Map the photonics ecosystem and value chain, including customers, suppliers, competitors, foundries, and potential partners, to identify attractive entry points and sources of differentiation. Develop clear opportunity assessments that define the customer problem, evaluate Keysight’s competitive advantage, and explain why an opportunity merits investment—or should not be pursued. Evaluate organic growth, partnership, and acquisition opportunities, articulating the trade-offs, capability requirements, and strategic fit of each option. Build decision-ready business cases covering market potential, competitive differentiation, investment requirements, key assumptions, risks, and recommended actions. Assess market, technology, and execution risks, including adoption uncertainty, emerging disruptions, and ecosystem dependencies, and reflect these findings in investment recommendations. Partner with business, product, and research leaders to align strategic priorities and translate approved strategies into actionable initiatives with clear ownership, milestones, and measures of success. Present clear, evidence-based recommendations to senior leadership and represent Keysight in relevant customer, partner, and industry discussions, consistent with business priorities and confidentiality requirements. Clearly and concisely communicate thorough, objective, independent recommendations to C-Suite decision makers on new SAM expansion growth opportunities. #LI-MO1 Qualifications Required Qualifications 10 or more years of relevant experience in strategic planning, business development, product management, or technology commercialization within photonics, optical communications, or related technology sectors, with demonstrated strategic planning capability. Strong technical foundation in photonics, with depth in one or more relevant areas—such as silicon photonics and photonic integrated circuits, op