Senior Product Marketing Director – Platform, Industry Narrative

IonQ

Lead narrative development and alignment for IonQ's quantum platform marketing strategy. Drive cross-functional launches and establish the company's market narrative for emerging technologies.

Posted 4/24/2026full-timeBothell • Maryland, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $169,869 - $221,514 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Translate product-level messaging, claims, proof points, and terminology in alignment with the company’s full-stack quantum platform narrative, demonstrating that the platform as a whole is greater than the sum of each individual part, while preserving technical credibility for each underlying product family.
Ensure platform narrative consistency across all product lines and releases, proactively identifying and resolving gaps, overlaps, or fragmentation before they reach the market.
Support the design of cross-platform GTM plays and sales-aligned playbooks, translating platform strategy into repeatable engagement models, industry-specific use case motions, and executive-ready conversation frameworks that accelerate pipeline development and revenue progression.
Orchestrate platform-level competitive intelligence and readiness, working across subject matter experts in each product domain to develop materials and objection-handling frameworks that clearly articulate 'why the IonQ quantum platform delivers greater customer value' versus alternatives and point solutions.
Continuously monitor the global quantum competitive landscape, evolving positioning and readiness materials as benchmarks, claims, funding signals, and market narratives shift.
Partner closely with Product Managers across product lines to predictably and consistently deliver launches and major technical milestones aligned to sales and marketing motions, ensuring product announcements reinforce platform strategy, roadmap progress, and long-term credibility.
Drive cross-functional alignment for launches and milestone releases across Product, Sales, Corporate Marketing, PR, and Analyst Relations to maximize coherent market impact.
Develop and support industry- and region-tuned, platform materials, enabling the core quantum narrative to resonate across verticals (e.g., pharma, manufacturing, energy, financial services, defense) and geographies, by demonstrating an understanding of distinct motivations, dynamics, and buyer expectations.
Act as a trusted platform partner to cross company product leaders, facilitating alignment without diminishing individual product line ownership or differentiation.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of experience in technical product marketing, preferably in deep-tech, emerging technology, or complex B2B platforms; science communications experience is a plus.
Proven experience translating complex technical subject matter into coherent, scalable market narratives; exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
Demonstrated ownership of competitive intelligence and executive-level positioning in technically sophisticated markets.
Experience partnering directly with Product Management and Engineering in milestone-driven environments.
Strong executive communication skills with experience adapting platform narratives for enterprise industries, governments, and global regions.
Strategic thinker who remains hands-on in high-growth, high-complexity environments.
Experience working across multiple product lines or business units.
Strong understanding of quantum technology concepts with the ability to communicate credibly with technical audiences.
Comfortable influencing without authority and partnering with senior leaders across product, sales, engineering, and marketing.
Confident presenter to internal and external audiences, including customers, partners, and executives.
Brings a mindset that is curious, analytical, customer-obsessed, commercially minded…and energized by ambiguity in early or fast-evolving markets.
Highly organized, self-directed, and capable of balancing long-term strategy with near-term execution demands.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
Matching 401K
Unlimited PTO and paid holidays
Parental/adoption leave
Legal insurance
Home technology stipend

ATS Keywords

✓ Tailor your resume

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools

technical product marketingcompetitive intelligencemarket narrativesquantum technology conceptsmilestone-driven environmentscross-platform GTM playsobjection-handling frameworkssales-aligned playbooksproduct launchesexecutive-level positioning

Soft Skills

written communicationverbal communicationstrategic thinkinginfluencing without authoritypresentation skillscustomer-obsessedanalytical mindsethighly organizedself-directedadaptability