Director of Product Management - Next-Generation Systems

Director of Product Management - Next-Generation Systems

Bothell, Washington, United States

IonQ, Inc. 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.

This role is based at our Bothell, WA office, with the option to work a few days a week remotely. As needed Job ID: 1692

The Role

We are looking for a Director of Product Management - Next-Generation Systems to join our Product team at IonQ. In this role, you will be responsible for building critical pieces of our quantum computing portfolio, including ensuring customers are able to take advantage of the newest IonQ hardware generations as early as possible. You will partner with engineering program leads on system design tradeoffs and with research leads on experimental goals and capabilities, to define what "ready" means for a specific quantum system and target customer are necessary for success.

You'll play a key role in contributing to the team's mission of leading IonQ on its journey to build the world's best quantum computers to solve the world's most complex problems.

Responsibilities

In this position, you will work on two related value streams:

• Our Next-Generation Systems, which allow IonQ customers to access our newest generations of systems quickly, via coordinated capability launch across platforms and surfaces.
• Our Experimental Capabilities, the feature set that lets external researchers and internal application scientists push the state of the art, explore novel capabilities, and publish genuinely novel breakthroughs on IonQ systems.

You will work with customers, external partners, and internal collaborators to take ideas from concept to launch, including creating a vision, identifying requirements, and crafting the product roadmap.

Key responsibilities include:

• Understanding IonQ's market and communicating a strong point of view about our customers, in particular frontier research groups and future customers who believe upcoming generations will unlock needed capability.
• Immersing yourself in IonQ's hardware roadmap, system software, experimental capabilities, and R&D pipeline, through relationships with engineering program leads working on each generation of system.
• Building strong relationships with engineering to ensure advancements in capability are aligned to business and customer outcomes, driving milestone alignment and clarity across in-flight hardware generation so new capabilities are coordinated events.
• Leading cross-functional efforts to land each new hardware generation across relevant surfaces (Cloud, Hub, On-Prem, partners), and to ship and refresh an Experimental Capabilities surface that gives external researchers the tools for exploring the cutting edge.
• Defining product value proposition, positioning, and go-to-market strategy, and contributing to its realization across Sales, Product Marketing, Customer Success, and more.
• Working closely with customer success, applications research, internal data, frontier lab partners, and our own scientists to understand the success, health, and quality of products in development and in-market.

Requirements

To be successful, you will need strong experience in technical product management or equivalent roles, with exposure to hardware-software co-development or scientific instrumentation. We're looking for someone who has worked on products that require building a new market for a technology and/or commercializing a technology for the first time.

You'd be a great fit with:

• Knowledge of or interaction with Quantum Computing, Quantum Information Science, and/or AMO Physics is essential in order to credibly partner with program leads and researchers.
• World-class written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to articulate complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
• A demonstrated ability to act as a self-starting leader in ambiguous and challenging environments, driving impact through persistence and adaptability.
• Passion for working with emerging technologies and at the boundary between research and productized delivery.
• Bachelor's degree in Physics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, a related engineering field, or equivalent real-world experience.

Preferred Qualifications

It would also be beneficial to have experience taking research-grade technologies into productized customer-facing offerings, such as working in Scientific Computing or High Performance Computing. Participation in the quantum computing research community would also be useful, such as publications in QIS, AMO or related fields. An advanced degree (MS/PhD) in Physics, Quantum Information Science, Chemistry, Applied Mathematics, or related engineering field, could also be helpful. The approximate base salary range for this position is $200,698 - $262,765. 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.