Staff Product Manager, IonQ

• We are seeking an experienced Staff Product Manager to own a part of the computing engine at the heart of IonQ's quantum platform
• You’re comfortable with ambiguous inputs, you aren’t intimidated by things you haven’t studied before, and you’re looking for a steep challenge. If you think this all sounds thrilling and not daunting: this role will be deeply rewarding
• 7+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years leading infrastructure, platform, or developer tools products where the customer is an engineer or technical operator
• A demonstrated technical acumen: comfortable and fluent in architecture discussions, systems design, and negotiating service boundaries and interface contracts with engineering teams
• Experience working on foundational platform systems—the kind that other teams build on top of—where getting the abstraction right the first time is a critical concern
• A track record as a self-starting operator who builds their own context, identifies the highest-leverage problems, and drives outcomes without waiting for direction

Desirable

• This role spans the full lifecycle of quantum computation: from how circuits are compiled and optimized, orchestrating and scheduling complex workloads, and connecting them to our growing fleet of quantum processors deployed in cloud regions, national laboratories, and enterprise data centers worldwide
• This is going to be a significant challenge both in scope and in skill. Your work will span compiler interface contracts to fleet operations systems and everything in-between
• Build a deep, technical understanding of IonQ's platform systems from job submission APIs to the backend infrastructure that puts those instructions on to the QPUs themselves
• Own the product vision and roadmap for a portion of our computing platform layer—things like our compilation services, simulators, workflow orchestrators, and more
• Define interface contracts and service boundaries during a period of active architectural change, making smart choices about which systems to build to stand the test of time, and which can be throwaway
• Partner with engineering teams up and down the stack to scope, sequence, ship, and maintain foundational platform capabilities
• Help us grow our hybrid deployment roadmap, working across regional cloud deployments, on-premise edge appliances, and integrated HPC facilities, ensuring our products works as well inside a national laboratory as it does in a hyperscale cloud
• Navigate a complex competitive and standards landscape, emerging interoperability standards, and nascent partner integration patterns to inform strategic positioning and technical decisions