Product Manager, -Generation Systems

Staff Product Manager, Next-Generation Systems

Bothell, Washington, United States

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.

We are looking for a customer‑obsessed, technically deep product manager to build critical pieces of our quantum computing portfolio. As a product manager within IonQ's Quantum Computing product family, you'll be part of a cross‑functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world's best quantum computers to solve the world's most complex problems.

In this role, you'll own the product management of a next‑generation hardware program, from early definition through launch, within the broader quantum systems portfolio. You’ll have two main responsibilities: ensuring the market is ready for the new generation, and ensuring the new generation is ready for the market. The first requires aligning how its capabilities will be exposed to customers, when and how it is exposed to internal and external “early access” users, and what key demonstrations and milestones we need to ensure that end users are ready and excited to take advantage of they system as soon as it comes online.

The second requires aligning program priorities with product priorities: act as a key stakeholder and team member of the engineering program that is developing the system to negotiate key design targets and requirements, helping manage day‑to‑day tradeoffs with clear business and customer perspective, and identifying and doing the work necessary to ensure the program is not just a technical success, but a commercial and customer one: export control and compliance, operability and maintainability, compatibility, field deployability, and more.

You will work with customers, external partners, and internal collaborators across Product, Engineering, R&D, Sales, Marketing, and more to establish a vision, identify and prioritize requirements, define a product roadmap, inform go‑to‑market strategies, and drive them to realization and launch.

We need a self‑starting, technically‑adept leader to help us continue to move quantum out of the lab and into the world of scientific and commercial utility. This means strength and depth in both technical and business topics, constant curiosity and intellectual humility, and the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with a broad variety of internal and external stakeholders. This role in particular requires the ability to credibly partner with engineering program leads on system design tradeoffs — strong, pragmatic opinions about what "ready" means for a specific quantum system, target customer, and market moment are necessary for success.

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