Staff Product Marketing Manager, Quantum Sensing

IonQ•Denver, CO

10d•$128,445 - $183,450•Hybrid

About The Position

IonQ is seeking a Staff Product Marketing Manager, Quantum Sensing to lead the go-to-market strategy for its quantum sensing products. This role will define how IonQ's quantum sensing portfolio is perceived in the market, translating advanced capabilities into differentiated positioning, launch strategies, and revenue-driving narratives. The position operates at the intersection of product, engineering, sales, and marketing, connecting product strategy to market strategy and ensuring clear, credible, and commercially relevant messaging. The role involves leading positioning, messaging, go-to-market strategy, launches, and cross-functional alignment to ensure the sensing portfolio is differentiated and drives adoption across government, defense, aerospace, critical infrastructure, and advanced technology markets. A key aspect of this role is serving as a strategic market partner to product and engineering leadership, influencing launch priorities and roadmap communication through customer insights, competitive intelligence, and market feedback.

Requirements

5–10+ years of experience in B2G product marketing within highly technical industries such as quantum technology, aerospace, defense, national security, positioning/navigation/timing, sensing, autonomy, deep tech, scientific instrumentation, or adjacent markets.
Proven ownership of GTM strategy and launch execution.
Strong technical aptitude and the ability to quickly understand advanced sensing, timing, navigation, PNT, quantum hardware, or related deep-tech concepts.
Exceptional writing and content development skills.
Confident presenter and communicator across internal and external audiences.
Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders across product, engineering, sales, marketing, and leadership organizations.
Strong commercial instincts and strategic thinking.
Experience working in nascent, emerging, or rapidly evolving markets.
Experience building, maintaining, or operationalizing AI-enabled workflows, knowledge systems, agents, or automation frameworks.
Ability to structure product, customer, technical, and market information in ways that improve output quality, consistency, and business value.
Highly organized and self-directed, with the ability to manage multiple strategic and executional work streams simultaneously.
Comfortable operating with autonomy in fast-moving, ambiguous, and technically complex environments.
Energized by highly technical products, evolving markets, and the opportunity to help shape how new categories are understood and brought to market.

Nice To Haves

Working knowledge of quantum sensing, PNT, atomic clocks, inertial sensing, precision timing, resilient navigation, or adjacent defense/aerospace technology areas is strongly preferred.
Experience marketing products or technologies to government, defense, aerospace, national security, research, or critical infrastructure audiences is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Own, define, and evolve the narrative, positioning, and messaging for Quantum Sensing products across customer segments and buyer personas.
Lead go-to-market strategy and launch execution across Quantum Sensing products.
Partner closely with product management, engineering, and technical leadership to influence launch prioritization and roadmap communication.
Develop and maintain customer-facing and internal content, including messaging frameworks, thought leadership, web copy, sales enablement assets, technical narratives, case studies, solution briefs, and launch materials.
Own and continuously evolve Quantum Sensing AI-enabled go-to-market systems.
Drive cross-functional alignment across product, engineering, sales, corporate marketing, communications, and enablement.
Own competitive and market intelligence, tracking competitors, market shifts, government priorities, and emerging category dynamics.
Serve as the voice of the customer within the organization.
Partner with sales enablement to support battle cards, objection handling, training materials, demo narratives, technical talk tracks, and strategic deal support.
Support the development of scalable product marketing processes, frameworks, and operational infrastructure.