Director of Product Management - Next-Generation Systems

IonQ•Bothell, WA

8h•$200,698 - $262,765•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Strong experience in technical product management or equivalent roles.
Exposure to hardware-software co-development or scientific instrumentation.
Experience working on products that require building a new market for a technology and/or commercializing a technology for the first time.
Knowledge of or interaction with Quantum Computing, Quantum Information Science, and/or AMO Physics is essential.
World-class written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to articulate complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
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.

Nice To Haves

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, 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.

Responsibilities

Work on two related value streams: Next-Generation Systems (allowing customers to access newest systems quickly) and Experimental Capabilities (feature set for researchers to push the state of the art).
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.
Understand IonQ’s market and communicate a strong point of view about customers, particularly frontier research groups and future customers who believe upcoming generations will unlock needed capability.
Immerse yourself in IonQ's hardware roadmap, system software, experimental capabilities, and R&D pipeline, through relationships with engineering program leads.
Build 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 generations so new capabilities are coordinated events.
Lead 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.
Define product value proposition, positioning, and go-to-market strategy, and contribute to its realization across Sales, Product Marketing, Customer Success, and more.
Work closely with customer success, applications research, internal data, frontier lab partners, and scientists to understand the success, health, and quality of products in development and in-market.