Staff Product Marketing Manager, Quantum Sensing

About this role

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.

Location: This position can work hybrid from our office in Pleasanton, CA, or Denver, CO. Travel: Up to 5% Job ID: 1782

The Role:

We are looking for a Senior 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.

This is a strategy and execution role on a highly effective team that uses AI-assisted workflows to accelerate production, improve consistency, and create more time for strategic work, customer insight, competitive analysis, and cross-functional influence. The right person is independently driven, deeply collaborative, customer-voice driven, technically curious, and comfortable operating with autonomy in highly technical and evolving markets.

Responsibilities :

• Own, define, and evolve the narrative, positioning, and messaging for Quantum Sensing products across customer segments and buyer personas — translating highly technical capabilities into customer-ready language that resonates with government, defense, aerospace, national security, critical infrastructure, and technically sophisticated commercial audiences.

• Lead go-to-market strategy and launch execution across Quantum Sensing products, tailoring positioning, messaging, and customer engagement to distinct buyers, use cases, technical maturity levels, and competitive environments.

• Partner closely with product management, engineering, and technical leadership to influence launch prioritization and roadmap communication based on customer insight, competitive dynamics, mission relevance, and market opportunity.

• Develop and maintain customer-facing and internal content, including messaging frameworks, thought leadership, web copy, sales enablement assets, technical narratives, case studies, solution briefs, and launch materials.

• Own and continuously evolve Quantum Sensing AI-enabled go-to-market systems, including domain-specific agents, knowledge repositories, competitive intelligence, technical terminology, product information, and customer-use-case libraries to power scalable content creation, sales enablement, and market intelligence.

• Leverage AI-enabled workflows to accelerate content creation, competitive intelligence, launch execution, sales enablement, and customer-facing asset development while applying strategic judgment to ensure accuracy, quality, technical credibility, and market relevance.

• Drive cross-functional alignment across product, engineering, sales, corporate marketing, communications, and enablement to ensure launches reinforce product authority, platform coherence, and market differentiation at every touchpoint.

• Own competitive and market intelligence, tracking competitors, market shifts, government priorities, technology readiness signals, funding patterns, and emerging category dynamics while translating insights into actionable recommendations for GTM team members.

• Serve as the voice of the customer within the organization, ensuring customer needs, mission requirements, buying behavior, market feedback, and competitive realities consistently influence GTM strategy, positioning, launch planning, and product decisions.

• Partner with sales enablement to support battle cards, objection handling, training materials, demo narratives, technical talk tracks, and strategic deal support for complex government, defense, aerospace, and enterprise opportu

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