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.

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 role is based at our Bothell, WA office, with the option to work a few days a week remotely. Travel: 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.

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.