Director, Partner Marketing - Analyst Relations

About IonQ

IonQ, Inc 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 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.

Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Location

This role can work onsite or hybrid from our College Park, MD/Washington, D.C. or Bothell, WA offices. We are open to a fully remote option for the right candidate.

Travel

Expect 10–15% travel per quarter, depending on seasonal priorities.

The Role

We are seeking a Partner Marketing Director - Analyst Relations to lead IonQ’s ecosystem marketing and market influence strategy, driving partner-driven growth and shaping external perception through world-class analyst and partner engagement.

This role sits at the intersection of partnerships, product marketing, and go-to-market strategy—ensuring that IonQ’s strategic alliances, technology ecosystem, and category leadership are clearly articulated, amplified, and validated in the market.

You will own the strategy and execution for partner marketing programs and analyst relations, aligning joint go-to-market initiatives, ecosystem narratives, and third-party validation to accelerate pipeline, strengthen market positioning, and reinforce IonQ’s leadership in full-stack quantum computing, networking, sensing, security, and infrastructure.

The ideal candidate is a cross-functional leader, strategic storyteller and content creator, and a relationship builder—someone who can translate complex technology into compelling narratives, while building trusted partnerships with analysts, partners, and internal stakeholders. You will bring structure and scale to how IonQ activates its ecosystem and influences the market.

Responsibilities

• Own IonQ’s global partner marketing strategy, developing joint go-to-market programs with strategic partners across cloud, government, and enterprise ecosystems.
• Define and execute co-marketing initiatives including joint campaigns, solution launches, events, and content that drive pipeline and customer engagement.
• Build scalable frameworks for partner activation, including messaging alignment, campaign playbooks, and performance tracking.
• Lead IonQ’s analyst relations program, managing relationships with key industry analysts (e.g., Gartner, IDC, Forrester) and ensuring consistent, proactive engagement.
• Drive and deliver compelling analyst briefings with cross-functional leaders/experts, develop analyst inquiries, and strategic narratives that position IonQ as a category leader in quantum computing, networking, sensing, and security.