Director, Product Management - Next Generation Quantum Systems

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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. 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.

Role Overview

Role

IonQ is building quantum computers that can change which problems the world can solve. As Director of Product Management for Next Generation Quantum Systems, you’ll help decide what we build next, who it serves, and how advances in quantum computing become products customers choose, use, and love.

This is an opportunity to shape product direction at the boundary of scientific discovery and commercial opportunity. You’ll own the product vision and hardware roadmap for every future generation of IonQ’s quantum systems, beginning with Superion 256 and extending across the generations that follow, as you turn frontier hardware capabilities into a great platform and differentiated offerings for cloud and on-premises customers.

Responsibilities

This is a hands-on technical product management role. You’ll write the product vision, functional specifications and quality metrics for our systems, and bring customer input directly into the engineering plan. You’ll work with customers and partners and alongside IonQ’s science, engineering, creative and marketing teams, connecting long-term ambition to practical choices: which capabilities matter most, and what each generation must deliver to earn customer adoption and demonstrate continued technical leadership.

In your first months you’ll take ownership of our high-level product requirements, dig into the hard open functional, technical and experiential questions within them, and set the priorities we need to address. You’ll author or commission the functional specifications beneath them, and partner with creative and marketing to show customers the value of each system. You’ll start as a hands-on lead and grow a small team over time, with product ownership for the current and next generation, while staying accountable for the long-term hardware roadmap.

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US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law.

US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law.

If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!