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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.
Location: This position can work onsite or hybrid from one of our offices or fully remote in the US.
Travel: Up to 10%, domestic or international.
Job ID: 1513
The Role:
We are looking for a highly capable and independent Product Manager to help define the future of organizational effectiveness through the use of AI. As a member of the product organization, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world’s best quantum computing solutions to solve the world’s most complex problems. In this role, you would be responsible (in collaboration with the engineering team) for defining, designing, building, and scaling a company-wide AI-based knowledge management platform that would help solve a set of highly impactful use cases that limit the company’s growth due to knowledge and information flow. You would start with a few narrow areas and expand the solution gradually, managing a roadmap in support of both internal and external needs.
This is a service design role where you get to define the end-to-end experience: who uses it, how they use it, what workflows it replaces or augments, and whether adoption translates into measurable organizational and business impact. The platform only succeeds if the people using it change how they work.
Product Management in quantum computing is no different from any other field, with the exciting difference that you get to be among the first people in history ever to build it. Quantum computers and quantum applications rely on cutting-edge technologies across diverse engineering disciplines, including Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, data analysis, and a hybrid execution model that relies on both quantum computers and classical computing resources such as High-Performance Computing. Having interest and experience in these fields will serve you well at IonQ, but we don’t expect you to be an expert in any of them.
You mostly need to demonstrate intellectual curiosity, work well with highly specialized experts, bring in your expertise in knowledge management systems, and manage a coherent point of view of what’s important to our internal users and how we might build a thriving company highly effective at building products and winning business.
This is a unique opportunity to significantly impact IonQ’s market success and drive the broader quantum computing industry as it transitions from a vision into reality.
Responsibilities:
- Own Product Strategy and Roadmap
- Define the product vision and roadmap for IonQ’s internal AI knowledge platform, collaborating with stakeholders to identify the most impactful use cases.
- Establish and maintain clear product goals, requirements, and success metrics, making explicit architectural and scope decisions early.
- Continuously audit assumptions and re-evaluate roadmap priorities as organizational usage patterns and AI tooling evolve.
- Collaborate on Technical Design and Execution
- Lead the custom development of the knowledge gathering and retrieval system, working with engineering and data owners on pipelines, metadata, and retrieval tuning.
- Define the set of tools for populating and maintaining this knowledge system, specifying what the system and tools should do and the value they deliver.
- Evaluate and define the front-end interaction layer for less-technical users.
- Maintain working awareness of the AI tooling landscape to inform development decisions.
- Drive Knowledge Architecture and Data Governance
- Partner with functional owners to identify, classify, and prioritize knowledge sources.
- Define and enforce a data governance framework (ownership, updates, staleness, conflict resolution, etc.).
- Drive the design of the information architecture for scalable retrieval quality.
- Partner with Infrastructure, Legal, and Security teams to build safeguards for data security and responsible AI usage.
- Steer Internal Usage and Satisfaction
- Run structured discovery sessions with internal teams to identify knowledge gaps and build the first version around actual workflows.
- Design the system for high business impact from day one, accounting for different interaction models for various user personas (e.g., GTM vs. engineers).
- Own the internal launch end-to-end, including training, onboarding, documentation, and change management.
- Define what ‘working’ looks like before shipping, measure adoption and usage quality, and own the organizational change process.
- Manage Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Serve as the connective tissue between engineering, Applications Development, GTM, and all other stakeholders, translating needs into clear requirements.
- Proactively communicate progress, roadmap status, blockers, and changes in writing to all affected stakeholders.
- Work with the Product team and CPO to ensure this initiative stays aligned with IonQ’s broader strategy.
Requirements:
- 13+ years of professional experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Have prior experience building AI systems that manage complex knowledge.
- Have a track record in building and shipping internal tools that teams use daily.
- Are comfortable with knowledge management, document retrieval, or search infrastructure, and understand Generative AI architectures well enough to hold substantive technical conversations with engineers.
- Are capable of organizing requirements and priorities despite ambiguity, driving results, and forming plans for validating product ideas.
- Enjoy and have practice collaborating with multiple business, research, and engineering teams to drive concrete results.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Have built persona frameworks and service blueprints that directly shaped product requirements and interaction design.
- Have owned change management tied to a product rollout and can demonstrate adoption with behavioral data.
The approximate base salary range for this position is $192,979 - $252,659. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site.
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 401K, 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!
Ready to apply?
Apply to IonQ
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.
We are looking for a highly capable and independent Product Manager to help define the future of applications across different industries in this new quantum era. As a member of the product organization, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world’s best quantum computing solutions to solve the world’s most complex problems. Specifically in the product team for quantum applications, you will be identifying and assessing different use cases where quantum computers fit into computational workflows and conduct market sizing and customer discovery.
Product Management in quantum computing is no different from any other field, with the exciting difference that you get to be among the first people in history ever to build it. Quantum computers and quantum applications rely on cutting-edge technologies across diverse engineering disciplines, including Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, data analysis, and a hybrid execution model that relies on both quantum computers and classical computing resources such as High-Performance Computing. Having interest and experience in these fields will serve you well at IonQ, but we don’t expect you to be an expert in any of them.
You mostly need to demonstrate intellectual curiosity, work well with highly specialized experts, bring in your strategy consulting toolkit, and manage a coherent point of view of what’s important to our end-users and how we might build a thriving applications business. This also includes conducting market analysis, revenue opportunity estimations, channel analysis, working with customers on projects and overall business planning. This is a unique opportunity to significantly impact IonQ’s market success and drive the broader quantum computing industry as it transitions from a vision into reality.
Responsibilities:
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Primary responsibility: Quantum application strategy development across industries that require continuous knowledge building, market intelligence, and strategic business analysis, including:
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Drive the application strategy (content and process): Identify, prioritize, and articulate the short-term and long-term potential of quantum applications across industries (including automotive, finance, industrials, chemicals, etc.), bringing your full consultant toolkit to bear
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Objective business case development: Evaluate the attractiveness of identified quantum applications by conducting a rigorous business analysis for each opportunity including TAM/SAM, estimated bottom-up P&L analysis, key customer segments and their computational pain points, scaling channels, and alignment with IonQ’s hardware roadmap based on resource estimates
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Technology mastery: Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of IonQ’s quantum computing offering (hardware, software, and unique advantages) and its technical considerations as well as the quantum ecosystem players
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Customer engagement delivery includes direct customer interaction, technical and business validation, and translating opportunities into executable plans. You will lead customer discovery workshops and deliver custom projects to uncover and advance new quantum application opportunities with a mandate to explore and pursue applications across diverse sectors.
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Cross-functional product advocacy (esp. GTM) to drive internal and external alignment and commercial success. In particular, you will work closely with the sales, marketing, and other business teams to inform proposals in the sales funnel (e.g., translating customer needs to quantum applications and algorithms), provide input on pricing strategy, business models, product positioning, and competitive analysis.
You’d be a good fit if you
- Have 1-2 years of experience in a top tier strategy consulting firm as a consultant/business analyst/associate and have built a well-rounded consulting toolkit
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from a reputable university required; we are looking for diverse disciplines incl. non-technical fields (e.g,. business, economics or similar), with a strong track record of analytical and structured thinking
- Have a spike in
- Analytical modeling (e.g., market sizing models)
- Pragmatic 80/20 approach combined with sound logic that allows you to execute at speed and move forward in ambiguity, e.g., when drafting a first version of a technical analysis where not all details are known yet
- Getting up to speed in a new industry/domain quickly, even when involving a complex technology, incl. structuring the problem space, researching and analyzing pain points and computational workflows, reading technical papers, and moving between details and high-level synthesis
- Are comfortable dealing with advanced technologies, even if you have clear knowledge gaps, while collaborating with a broad range of engineering experts and scientists to achieve product goals
- Enjoy and have practice collaborating with multiple business, research, and engineering teams as well as customers and domain experts incl. interviews to drive concrete results
You’d be a great fit if you.
- Have experience driving innovation strategy or other strategic consulting work that required learning quickly about new technical domains
- Have experience being part of an entrepreneurial team, building a new category or business from scratch, and making products/services successful in their marketplace
- Have contributed to the identification and segmentation of markets for novel advanced technology where the market is nascent and data is limited, incl. driving market sizing
- Have worked with computational scientists or AI/ML engineers in the corporate setting
- Have a strong interest in diving into quantum computing and continuously learning about the technology
Location: This position is remote, with a preference for candidates based on the US East Coast or within Europe—specifically Sweden, the UK, or Switzerland.
Travel: up to 30%
Job ID: 1349
The approximate base salary range for this position is $167,808 - $219,704. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, and equity.
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 401K, 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!
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Apply to IonQ
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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.
We are seeking an experienced Staff Product Manager to own a part of the computing engine at the heart of IonQ's quantum platform. This role spans the full lifecycle of quantum computation: from how circuits are compiled and optimized, orchestrating and scheduling complex workloads, and connecting them to our growing fleet of quantum processors deployed in cloud regions, national laboratories, and enterprise data centers worldwide.
IonQ's computing platform is at a critical inflection point, rapidly expanding as we scale. We’re rewriting, refactoring, or building whole new services up and down our stack to support our growing needs. Existing systems and datastores are being unified and matured, prepared for hybrid deployments into cloud + on-premise systems, and we’re integrating with new kinds of IT environments with rigorous requirements and complex needs. Every part of this space is a foundational, load-bearing system—and needs a strong product leader to guide their growth.
This is going to be a significant challenge both in scope and in skill. Your work will span compiler interface contracts to fleet operations systems and everything in-between. You’re comfortable with ambiguous inputs, you aren’t intimidated by things you haven’t studied before, and you’re looking for a steep challenge. If you think this all sounds thrilling and not daunting: this role will be deeply rewarding.
Responsibilities:
- Build a deep, technical understanding of IonQ's platform systems from job submission APIs to the backend infrastructure that puts those instructions on to the QPUs themselves.
- Own the product vision and roadmap for a portion of our computing platform layer—things like our compilation services, simulators, workflow orchestrators, and more.
- Define interface contracts and service boundaries during a period of active architectural change, making smart choices about which systems to build to stand the test of time, and which can be throwaway.
- Partner with engineering teams up and down the stack to scope, sequence, ship, and maintain foundational platform capabilities.
- Help us grow our hybrid deployment roadmap, working across regional cloud deployments, on-premise edge appliances, and integrated HPC facilities, ensuring our products works as well inside a national laboratory as it does in a hyperscale cloud.
- Navigate a complex competitive and standards landscape, emerging interoperability standards, and nascent partner integration patterns to inform strategic positioning and technical decisions.
You’d be a good fit with:
- 7+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years leading infrastructure, platform, or developer tools products where the customer is an engineer or technical operator.
- A demonstrated technical acumen: comfortable and fluent in architecture discussions, systems design, and negotiating service boundaries and interface contracts with engineering teams.
- Experience working on foundational platform systems—the kind that other teams build on top of—where getting the abstraction right the first time is a critical concern.
- A track record as a self-starting operator who builds their own context, identifies the highest-leverage problems, and drives outcomes without waiting for direction.
You’d be a great fit with:
- Experience with HPC, scientific computing, or job scheduling environments (Slurm, PBS, or similar)
- Experience with hybrid cloud and on-premise deployment models, including the operational realities of running software in a customer's data center
- Experience with compilers, build systems, or developer toolchains
- Experience with fleet management, service registries, or distributed infrastructure control planes
- An understanding of hardware-software interfaces and the product challenges of abstracting over evolving hardware generations
- A strong bias for action and a comfort level with defining product direction in spaces where the technology and market are being invented simultaneously
Location: This position can work onsite or hybrid from one of our offices (College Park, MD, Bothell, WA) or fully remote in the US
Travel: None
Job ID: 1425
The approximate base salary range for this position is $126,887 - $166,127. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, and equity.
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 401K, 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!
Ready to apply?
Apply to IonQ