Director, Product Management - Next Generation Quantum Systems

About IonQ:

IonQ, Inc. [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance.

Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before.

Role Overview

Role:

IonQ is building quantum computers that can change which problems the world can solve. As Director of Product Management for Next Generation Quantum Systems, you’ll help decide what we build next, who it serves, and how advances in quantum computing become products customers choose, use, and love.

This is an opportunity to shape product direction at the boundary of scientific discovery and commercial opportunity. You’ll own the product vision and hardware roadmap for every future generation of IonQ’s quantum systems, beginning with Superion 256 and extending across the generations that follow, as you turn frontier hardware capabilities into a great platform and differentiated offerings for cloud and on-premises customers.

Responsibilities:

This is a hands-on technical product management role. You’ll write the product vision, functional specifications and quality metrics for our systems, and bring customer input directly into the engineering plan. You’ll work with customers and partners and alongside IonQ’s science, engineering, creative and marketing teams, connecting long-term ambition to practical choices: which capabilities matter most, and what each generation must deliver to earn customer adoption and demonstrate continued technical leadership.

In your first months you’ll take ownership of our high-level product requirements, dig into the hard open functional, technical and experiential questions within them, and set the priorities we need to address. You’ll author or commission the functional specifications beneath them, and partner with creative and marketing to show customers the value of each system. You’ll start as a hands-on lead and grow a small team over time, with product ownership for the current and next generation, while staying accountable for the long-term hardware roadmap.

Key responsibilities include:

• Set the quantum systems product vision: define a compelling, differentiated vision for IonQ’s next-generation quantum systems, grounded in customer problems and a clear view of how the market could evolve
• Discover new opportunities: engage current and prospective customers, application developers, and ecosystem partners to uncover unmet needs and emerging use cases
• Define what we build: author or commission functional specifications and quality metrics, working with science and engineering leaders to turn promising capabilities into clear system requirements
• Make strategic roadmap choices: prioritize across near-term customer needs and longer-term opportunities, with explicit tradeoffs among performance, cost, reliability, usability, and delivery timing
• Bring the value to life: partner with creative and marketing on how we communicate each system’s value, and with Customer Success and Applications to learn from deployments and early access programs

Requirements:

We’re looking for a technically credible, commercially minded product leader with the conviction to make difficult product choices. You’ll bring a bachelor’s degree in Physics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, a related engineering field, or equivalent real-world experience, and 6+ years of experience in technical product management or equivalent roles, with clear ownership of product definition, vision and roadmap for complex hardware products. Hardware product experience is a must, ideally in hardware-software co-development or scientific systems.

You’ll have direct experience bringing frontier technology to market, sufficient to credibly partner with science and engineering leads on system design tradeoffs and key functional and non-functional requirements. Quantum experience is welcome but not required: we value product leaders from other bleeding-edge hardware fields who have defined differentiated products and guided an emerging technology toward customer adoption.

You’ll also bring exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical and commercial choices, influence senior executives, and build alignment across technical and business teams, and a record of leading through ambiguity and mentoring others. The role is based in Bothell and includes regular travel to our team in Oxford, UK, roughly every one to two months. If you’re energized by defining new products, earning trust with scientists and engineers, and helping customers see what quantum computing can make possible, we’d love to hear from you.

You’d be a great fit with:

• An advanced degree (MS/PhD) in Physics, Quantum Information Science, Chemistry, Applied Mathematics, or a related engineering field
• Experience turning research-grade technologies into productized customer-facing offerings, particularly in domains where the customer cares about underlying capability, not just pricing and packaging
• Experience in quantum computing or other frontier hardware, such as cryogenic systems, semiconductor lithography, energy storage, aerospace or advanced consumer hardware
• Experience growing a small product team, or the appetite to build one

The total compensation package includes base salary, bonus, equity, and a range of benefits available on our career site.

If this role has a commission structure, the compensation range below just reflects the base compensation range.

Wage Transparency:

$212,000—$312,000 USD

Compensation

will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment.

At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued.

We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law.

US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law.

If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!