Director, Product Management - Next Generation Quantum Systems at Ionq in Washington, DC

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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. Key responsibilities include: Set the quantum systems product vision: define a compelling, differentiated vision for IonQ’s next-generation quantum systems, grounded in customer problems and a clear view of how the market could evolve Discover new opportunities: engage current and prospective customers, application developers, and ecosystem partners to uncover unmet needs and emerging use cases Define what we build: author or commission functional specifications and quality metrics, working with science and engineering leaders to turn promising capabilities into clear system requirements Make strategic roadmap choices: prioritize across near-term customer needs and longer-term opportunities, with explicit tradeoffs among performance, cost, reliability, usability, and delivery timing Bring the value to life: partner with creative and marketing on how we communicate each system’s value, and with Customer Success and Applications to learn from deployments and early access programs Requirements: We’re looking for a