Global Alliances Lead, Hyperscalers

IonQ; College Park (MD); Hybrid; USD 182,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

IonQ in the United States is seeking a Global Alliances Lead to build deep commercial relationships with hyperscalers such as AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud. You will own global joint plans, drive revenue, and co-sell early engagements across IonQ’s portfolio of compute, networking, security, sensing, and merchant services.

You will work with regional partner leads and Sales to qualify workloads, validate requirements, negotiate pricing, and develop playbooks.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in hyperscaler alliances or equivalent senior partnerships.
• Experience turning partnerships into revenue with clear go-to-market plans.
• Strong executive-level negotiation and cross-functional leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own global alliance strategy with lighthouse hyperscalers.
• Lead joint business planning, milestones and referenceable wins.
• Qualify workloads, validate requirements and negotiate cloud terms.
• Develop scalable partner playbooks and repeatable success stories.

Skills

Hyperscaler alliances

Executive communication

Commercial negotiation

Global partnerships

Pipeline management

Education

Master's degree or equivalent

Job description

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.

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 onsite or hybrid from one of our offices in the US or fully remote.

Travel

Domestic and International - travel to partner hubs and customer engagements expected

Job ID

1880

The Role

IonQ is seeking a Global Alliances Lead to build deep commercial relationships with selected hyperscalers, including AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The focus is a small set of committed partner teams, priority use cases and lighthouse customers, supported by global executive sponsorship and joint business plans. The role covers IonQ’s entire portfolio—compute, networking, security, sensing, space and merchant services, with focused pursuits selected to match each lighthouse partner’s capabilities and customer needs. You will commercialize remote access to IonQ quantum computers through selected hyperscalers, with a focus on resale of quantum computing capacity and customer adoption of that capacity. Working with regional partner leads and Sales, you will jointly qualify quantum workloads, validate technical requirements and the appropriate cloud–service and marketplace buying paths, and co\u201sell early engagements. Build reference successes that demonstrate a repeatable path to paid quantum capacity usage across accounts and regions. Where partner fit and technical readiness support it, develop complementary opportunities for quantum hardware in data centers and joint quantum application and algorithm development, drawing on the broader portfolio as relevant to customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Focused Alliance Strategy
  • Prioritize a few lighthouse hyperscaler relationships and specific industry teams and geographies based on customer fit for remote quantum computing access, committed executives, technical capacity and willingness to invest in joint pursuits. Deepen these relationships before expanding the portfolio.
  • Own global joint plans with a limited set of lighthouse accounts, committed partner resources, commercial milestones and agreed measures of customer success.
• Hands—On Co\u201sell & Commercialization
  • Personally work with hyperscaler sellers, specialists and IonQ teams to discover customer needs, qualify quantum computing needs, develop proposals for remote access to IonQ quantum computers and close initial capacity resale engagements. Shape related data—center hardware and application or algorithm development pursuits with the appropriate partner teams and IonQ specialists.
  • Engage Field and Partner Engineering to validate project feasibility, access requirements, dependencies and adoption milestones. Partner Engineering evaluates integration needs; Field Engineering supports customer discovery, solution development and live quantum computing pursuits. Build seller confidence through joint execution and evidence from customer work.
  • Validate the cloud–service, marketplace and private‒offer routes for remote quantum capacity resale in each pursuit, including eligibility for applicable cloud commitments; negotiate pricing, capacity terms and commercial responsibilities with Legal and Finance.
  • Teach by doing: jointly discover needs, qualify use cases, shape solutions, co\u201sell and deliver early engagements. Build reusable success stories and playbooks, then expand based on evidence of repeatability.
• Global—Regional Opportunity Execution
  • Own the named worldwide hyperscaler alliance and mobilize partner headquarters, global executive access, programs and specialist resources; regional leads develop local partner teams and opportunities, bring customer context and coordinate field execution in close alignment with regional sales leads.
  • Develop regional account plans with regional partner leads — for example, Hyperscaler quantum capacity opportunities in Europe—and establish shared pursuit responsibilities, agreed customer outcomes, milestones and pipeline reviews.
  • Address local barriers through global governance and bring regional customer lessons into global plans, partner priorities and technical roadmap discussions.
• Lighthouse Evidence & Disciplined Scale
  • Track qualified quantum capacity pipeline, commercial progress, paid usage and revenue. Maintain one shared opportunity record with distinct global and regional contributions.
  • Capture approved quantum computing customer references, practical capacity buying guides and repeatable co\u201sell playbooks. Work with Programs and Marketing to turn lighthouse engagement lessons into reusable tools, and GTM approaches.
  • Extend successful approaches to further accounts and regions after demonstrating technical viability, customer value and workable partner economics.

Requirements

• 8+ years in hyperscaler alliances, including hands–on ownership of a major hyperscaler relationship. Working knowledge of hyperscaler field organizations, co\u201sell programs, marketplaces and commercial models, with evidence of turning corporate agreements into customer wins.
• A proven track record of developing focused, early–stage partnerships into scalable channels that deliver sustained revenue growth.
• Demonstrated commercial expertise in frontier technologies or an emerging technology category: translating uncertain capabilities, evolving roadmaps and customer needs into credible, staged adoption plans.
• A record of building a small number of deep partnerships and personally co\u201sell ing early customer engagements, from discovery and qualification through solution development, negotiation and close.
• Strong executive communication, commercial negotiation and cross–functional leadership; discipline in pipeline qualification, forecasting and investment prioritization.
• Experience converting early customer engagements into approved references, reusable solution patterns and repeatable partner sales motions.
• Ability to operate globally and travel; master's degree or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Quantum experience is an advantage, including quantum computing, networking and security, space or sensing. Relevant experience may include commercialization, partnerships, customer adoption or technical solution development.
• Experience with sovereign or regulated markets, public–sector procurement, or international trade compliance relevant to advanced technology.
• Ability to work closely with technical specialists, distinguish validated capabilities from future potential, and establish customer success criteria without overstating readiness.

Primary Measures of Success

• Qualified partner–sourced and partner–influenced pipeline, closed revenue, conversion and forecast accuracy, with documented attribution across global and regional teams.
• Lighthouse quantum computing engagement progress against agreed customer outcomes: qualified workloads, technical validation, remote access activation, initial paid capacity usage, commercial milestones and referenceability.
• Depth and productivity of selected partnerships: committed partner resources, active joint pursuits, time to first win and partner capability demonstrated in live engagements.
• Evidence of replication: customer–approved success stories, reusable playbooks, follow‒on opportunities and repeat wins; additional partners activated only when delivery capacity and repeatability support expansion.

What Success Looks Like

Within the first year, you will have secured referenceable wins from a few carefully selected local and global lighthouse partners and jointly progressed qualified customer engagements toward successful technical and commercial outcomes. You will have established an effective global—regional pursuit cadence and documented the evidence, partner capability and playbooks needed to replicate success. Expansion will follow demonstrated readiness and results. Initial lighthouse wins should demonstrate a repeatable path to remote access, resale and paid usage of IonQ quantum computing capacity.

OTE for this role is expected to be $380K

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

If this role has a commission structure, the compensation range below just reflects the base compensation range.

Wage Transparency

$182,400—$262,200 USD

Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment.

At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued.

We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

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