Senior Staff TPM – Quantum Platform & Developer Tools

Clutch Canada; Colorado; On-site; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

401(k) matching

Unlimited PTO

Parental/adoption leave

Home technology stipend

Job summary

IonQ, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager to lead cross-functional programs across the application platform, developer tools, and compiler stack.

You’ll own end-to-end delivery, drive milestones, and report directly to VP level, coordinating with four engineering teams and ~40 engineers in a high-ambiguity environment. In this role you’ll collaborate with senior technical leadership, manage dependencies, and surface risks early while leveraging cutting-edge AI tools to

Qualifications

• 8+ years managing technical programs and delivering against aggressive timelines.
• Track record leading technical teams through genuine ambiguity, not just executing a defined plan.
• Experience in developer tools, SDKs, compilers, or adjacent platform software.
• A habit of turning diffuse problems into specific, minimal, assignable asks.
• Technical fluency to engage engineering leads directly on scoping and tradeoffs, and comfort reading and reasoning about code.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end delivery of IonQ’s application platform, developer tools, and compiler roadmap, spanning numerous cross-functional development threads
• Partner with engineering leadership to turn technical vision into incremental milestones that ship, identifying risks and mitigations before they become schedule problems
• Build and run the timelines, tracking, and reporting that teams actually use, where the measure of success is adoption; you’ll have access to cutting edge AI tools as a force multiplier
• Keep the systems of record honest. Our plans live across PRDs, trackers, and Jira, and when those drift apart the program is flying blind. You’ll close that gap and automate the checking
• Make invisible work visible: on-call burden, sustaining load, and technical debt tracked as rigorously as feature delivery
• Dive into the details on long-pole problems. When a program stalls, you’re in the weeds with the team
• Surface unresolved risks early, before you have a full solution or complete stakeholder alignment. We’d rather hear it messy and on time
• Manage dependencies across internal and external teams, technical and non-technical
• Write and present concise, data-driven status to senior leadership
• When engineers have great ideas off-roadmap, help turn them into formal proposals for potential prioritization

Skills

Program management

Ambiguity handling

Developer tools / SDKs

Technical fluency

Communication

Jira

Tools

Jira

Job description

IonQ, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager to lead cross-functional programs across the application platform, developer tools, and compiler stack.

You’ll own end-to-end delivery, drive milestones, and report directly to VP level, coordinating with four engineering teams and ~40 engineers in a high-ambiguity environment. In this role you’ll collaborate with senior technical leadership, manage dependencies, and surface risks early while leveraging cutting-edge AI tools to