Staff Product Marketing Manager, Space Solutions

Entangled Future; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

IonQ is seeking a Staff Product Marketing Manager for Space Solutions in Denver, CO, with remote options across the US. This senior role leads go-to-market strategy for the Space Solutions portfolio within the Quantum Platform, reporting to the Head of Product Marketing, Quantum Platform.

It requires shaping market understanding and driving differentiated positioning, launches, and revenue growth across commercial, defense, and government segments.

Qualifications

• Proven ownership of GTM strategy and launch execution.
• Experience in space domains or related fields (SAR, satellites, hosted payloads).
• Strong communication across customers, partners, executives, and engineers.
• Ability to influence across product, sales, marketing, and leadership groups.
• Commercial thinking with ability to translate technical input into market messaging.
• Experience in nascent or rapidly evolving markets with undefined categories.

Responsibilities

• Lead go-to-market strategy for IonQ's Space Solutions within Quantum Platform.
• Translate space system capabilities into differentiated positioning and narratives.
• Develop launch plans and drive revenue-generating activities across markets.

Skills

GTM strategy

Launch execution

Stakeholder influence

Space systems domain

Communications

Strategic thinking

Emerging markets

AI workflows

Job description

Staff Product Marketing Manager, Space Solutions at IonQ, Denver, Colorado; Remote, US (remote). A lead-level full time position in the Quantum Platform - Product team, listed under business operations.

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 Denver, CO or fully remote. Travel: Up to 5% domestic or international. Job ID: The Role: We are looking for a Staff Product Marketing Manager, Space Solutions to lead go-to-market strategy for IonQ's space portfolio within Quantum Platform. Reporting to the Head of Product Marketing, Quantum Platform, this role will shape how IonQ's Space Solutions portfolio is understood in-market — translating space systems, communications, and imaging 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 commercial, defense and intelligence, and allied government markets. This role operates at the intersection of product, engineering, sales, marketing, and

Requirements

• Proven ownership of GTM strategy and launch execution. You have built launch plans, aligned stakeholders, driven positioning, and taken technical products or solutions to market — not just supported execution.
• Working knowledge of one or more relevant areas such as SAR, Earth observation, satellite systems, hosted payloads, mission solutions, space infrastructure, defense/intelligence missions, sovereign space capabilities, or geospatial data.
• Confident communicator across internal and external audiences — including customers, partners, executives, product leaders, engineers, mission teams, and technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders across product, engineering, sales, marketing, mission design, and leadership organizations.
• Strong commercial instincts and strategic thinking. You can synthesize complex technical input into commercially effective positioning and understand how messaging, positioning, launches, and market insights connect to business outcomes.
• Experience working in nascent, emerging, or rapidly evolving markets where category definitions, buyer understanding, and competitive dynamics are still developing.
• Experience building, maintaining, or operationalizing AI-enabled workflows, knowledge systems, agents, or automation frameworks. Ability to structure product, customer, mission, and market information in ways that improve output quality, consistency, and business value.
• Highly organized and self-directed, with the ability to manage multiple strategic and executional work streams simultaneously.