Senior Director, Developer Ecosystem

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. As Senior Director of Developer Ecosystem, you will lead the strategy and execution of IonQ’s developer relations, open-source contributions and consortia, and technical and scientific community engagement. Your mission is to make IonQ a friendly home for quantum developers and other technical experts through technical leadership, world-class content, and a developer experience that earns trust and loyalty, and ensuring that breakthroughs in quantum information science, quantum error correction, and quantum applications and algorithms happen on IonQ systems, or are easily replicated on them.

You will lead IonQ's effort to build and nurture an ecosystem of active, engaged developers and first-rate tools and enablement materials, both inside and outside of the organization. This includes defining and driving our developer experience and education strategy across first-party, third-party, and open-source tooling. If successful, you will help IonQ be a contributor and leader of an industrywide transition from NISQ-era capabilities for researchers and benchmarkers to application-centric, value driven fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC), shaping the programming models, tooling, and developer tools that will define how the world builds production quantum applications.

This role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, and go-to-market. You will report to the VP of Product Management, Quantum Computing, driving vision and execution in partnership with peers across Product Management, Product Marketing, Engineering, Applications, Science, Field Engineering, and Customer Success to ensure that everything IonQ ships or contributes to — from SDKs to documentation to learning content to hackathons — meets a consistent industry-defining quality bar.

Responsibilities

: Developer Ecosystem Strategy and Execution. Own and drive IonQ's developer ecosystem strategy end to end: community, open-source engagement, developer experience, serving as the primary voice of developer community insights into product prioritization. Define what it means for IonQ to be a leading player on developer-facing platform benchmarks by 2030 and build the organization to get there.

Work with mission-driven, cross-functional teams inside and outside of IonQ to execute and deliver this vision. Open-Source Leadership. Engage with standards bodies, open-source foundations, and ecosystem partners to drive open-source governance and community benchmarking initiatives, prioritize efforts for maximum leverage and impact, and ensure IonQ’s voice and contributions shape the quantum software infrastructure that matters most.

Drive the IonQ Developer Tools Roadmap . Develop the strategy, execution, and distribution of IonQ’s developer tooling suite across APIs, SDKs, and other tools for IonQ end users across the full spectrum of technical personas.