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Senior Director, Finance Business Partner – Optical Circuit Switch (OCS)

psiquantum · Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site

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About psiquantum

PsiQuantum is on a mission to build the first commercially useful quantum computer to solve humanity. Backed by Founders Fund and Redpoint.

About the role

The Senior Director, Finance Business Partner – Optical Circuit Switch (OCS) serves as the strategic finance leader supporting the General Manager and leadership team of the Optical Circuit Switch business unit. This role is responsible for driving financial performance, supporting product and commercial strategy, and providing decision support for investments, product development, customer opportunities, and business growth initiatives.

What they're looking for

  • Business unit finance, commercial finance, or product finance leadership
  • Experience supporting technology, hardware, semiconductor, or advanced manufacturing businesses
  • Strong background in product economics, investment analysis, and growth strategy
  • Zone 1 - Bay Area and NYC
  • Zone 2 - Examples include Los Angeles and Washington DC
  • Zone 3 - Examples include Austin, Chicago, and Sacramento
More about this role

PsiQuantum’s mission is to build the first useful quantum computers—machines capable of delivering the breakthroughs the field has long promised. Since our founding in 2016, our singular focus has been to build and deploy million-qubit, fault-tolerant quantum systems.

Quantum computers harness the laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems that even the most advanced supercomputers or AI systems will never reach. Their impact will span energy, pharmaceuticals, finance, agriculture, transportation, materials, and other foundational industries.

Our architecture and approach is based on silicon photonics. By leveraging the advanced semiconductor manufacturing industry—including partners like GlobalFoundries—we use the same high-volume processes that already produce billions of chips for telecom and consumer electronics. Photonics offers natural advantages for scale: photons don’t feel heat, are immune to electromagnetic interference, and integrate with existing cryogenic cooling and standard fiber-optic infrastructure.

In 2024, PsiQuantum announced government-funded projects to support the build-out of our first utility-scale quantum computers in Brisbane, Australia, and Chicago,...

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