Senior Social Media Manager

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.  

The Senior Social Media Manager will raise the profile of IonQ's brand, subject matter experts and thought leadership, through the strategic use of organic social media on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, among other channels. This role articulates, drives, and measures the company’s organic social media presence, ensuring alignment with the overarching global marketing and communications priorities. S/he will harness new approaches to leverage social platforms for business and sales practices, further positioning the leading quantum company on a global scale and Ion's recruiting.

By using data, insights and competitive intelligence, this role will set clear objectives for IonQ's organic social media strategy, identify, document, and evangelize best practices, highlight strategic growth opportunities, and consistently deliver a content strategy designed to maximize the role of full social media platform. This role will partner across the company, its subsidiaries and partners. 

The role will help develop content and communication strategies across key brand initiatives such as raising the profile of the company, expanding awareness and understanding across core technology and capabilities, promoting key strategic events and initiatives and leverage the social media ecosystem to help build a diverse presence among key global stakeholders. The position will report to the VP, Global Communications.

• →Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent industry experience
• →7+ years’ experience leading organic social media for a major global enterprise (technology or financial sector expertise not necessary but valued)
• →Solid understanding of social media platforms, content publishing platforms, amplification platforms and social media monitoring tools
• →Advanced analytical thinking and problem-solving
• →Huge sense of urgency to get things done ensuring quality and proofing for every post
• →Ability to take abstract deep tech and ambiguous information and organize into meaningful facts and information for business partners to understand
• →Excellent communication skills; ability to communicate effectively with highly technical and business teams and executive management. Demonstrated ability to influence and educate all levels of internal stakeholders, including executive leadership. Strong negotiation and consensus-building skills when dealing with internal customers, stakeholders and team members
• →Ability to lead and influence interdisciplinary team members and stakeholders across the enterprise 
• →Excel in a collaborative working environment and builds trust with others
  
  

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