Staff Product Marketing Manager, Quantum Networking & Security
About the role
About IonQ
IonQ, Inc. [NYSE: IONQ] is a 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, helps customers and partners achieve 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.
Location
This position can work onsite or hybrid from one of our offices in the US or fully remote. Travel: Up to 5%. Job ID: 1728.
The Role
We are looking for a Staff Product Marketing Manager, Quantum Networking & Security to lead go-to-market strategy for technically sophisticated product areas within IonQ Quantum Platform. This role will shape how IonQ's quantum networking and security portfolio is understood in-market – translating complex technical 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, and effective narrative. You will lead positioning, messaging, go-to-market strategy, launches, and cross-functional alignment across Quantum Networking & Security, ensuring IonQ's portfolio is differentiated, commercially relevant, and positioned to drive adoption.
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, and comfortable operating with autonomy in highly technical and evolving markets.
Responsibilities
- Own, define, and evolve the narrative, positioning, and messaging for Quantum Networking & Security products across customer segments and buyer personas – translating highly technical capabilities into customer-ready language that resonates with enterprise, government, telecom, infrastructure, and security-focused audiences.