Staff Product Marketing Manager, Quantum Sensing

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 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. 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…