Staff Product Marketing Manager, Quantum Sensing

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 Staff Product Marketing Manager, Quantum Sensing to lead go-to-market strategy for one of the most technically sophisticated product areas within IonQ Quantum Platform. Reporting to the Head of Product Marketing, Quantum Platform, this role will shape how IonQ’s quantum sensing portfolio is understood in-market — translating advanced sensing, timing, navigation, and PNT capabilities into differentiated positioning, launch strategies, impactful revenue-driving narratives, and sales motions that accelerate market adoption, support pipeline growth, and strengthen IonQ’s position in emerging quantum markets.

This role operates at the intersection of product, engineering, sales, marketing, and leadership. You will help connect product strategy to market strategy, ensuring launches and messaging reflect a clear, credible, technically accurate, and commercially relevant narrative. You will lead positioning, messaging, go-to-market strategy, launches, and cross-functional alignment across Quantum Sensing, ensuring IonQ’s sensing portfolio is differentiated, understood by the right buyers, and positioned to drive adoption across government, defense, aerospace, critical infrastructure, and advanced technology markets.

You will serve as a strategic market partner to product and engineering leadership — helping connect technical development decisions to customer needs, competitive dynamics, buyer behavior, and market opportunity. This includes influencing launch priorities, roadmap communication, and product strategy through customer insight, competitive intelligence, and market feedback.

• →5–10+ years of experience in B2G product marketing within highly technical industries such as quantum technology, aerospace, defense, national security, positioning/navigation/timing, sensing, autonomy, deep tech, scientific instrumentation, or adjacent markets where buyers are sophisticated and sales cycles are complex.
• →Proven ownership of GTM strategy and launch execution. You have built launch plans, aligned stakeholders, driven positioning, and taken technical products to market — not just supported execution.
• →Strong technical aptitude and the ability to quickly understand advanced sensing, timing, navigation, PNT, quantum hardware, or related deep-tech concepts. You do not need to be a physicist, but you must be comfortable working closely with physicists, engineers, product leaders, and technical customers.
• →Working knowledge of quantum sensing, PNT, atomic clocks, inertial sensing, precision timing, resilient navigation, or adjacent defense/aerospace technology areas is strongly preferred.
• →Experience marketing products or technologies to government, defense, aerospace, national security, research, or critical infrastructure audiences is strongly preferred.
• →Exceptional writing and content development skills. You can translate highly technical concepts into clear, compelling narratives and create polished content across launches, thought leadership, web copy, customer-facing assets, technical explainers, and sales enablement materials for technical and executive audiences.
• →Confident presenter and communicator across internal and external audiences — including customers, partners, executives, product leaders, engineers, and technical stakeholders.
• →Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders across product, engineering, sales, marketing, and leadership organizations.
• →Strong commercial instincts and strategic thinking. You can synthesize complex technical input into commercially effective positioning and understand how messaging, positioning, launches, and market insights connect to business outcomes.
• →Experience working in nascent, emerging, or rapidly evolving markets where category definitions, buyer understanding, and competitive dynamics are still developing.
• →Experience building, maintaining, or operationalizing AI-enabled workflows, knowledge systems, agents, or automation frameworks. Ability to structure product, customer, technical, and market information in ways that improve output quality, consistency, and business value.
• →Highly organized and self-directed, with the ability to manage multiple strategic and executional work streams simultaneously.
• →Comfortable operating with autonomy in fast-moving, ambiguous, and technically complex environments.
• →Energized by highly technical products, evolving markets, and the opportunity to help shape how new categories are understood and brought to market.

The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site.