Senior Program Manager, Customer Delivery

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.  

We are looking for a customer-obsessed, execution-driven technical program manager to build and lead IonQ's new Delivery Excellence function. Your mission is to build and operate the systems that align a variety of complex delivery motions that must come together to ensure our customers get the right things on time, we get paid on time, and the customer is delighted with the entire experience. As a technical program manager within IonQ's Quantum Computing product family, you'll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build and deliver the world's best quantum computers to solve the world's most complex problems.

We need a self-starting, highly organized leader to help us continue to move quantum out of the lab and into the world of scientific and commercial utility. This means strength and depth in both technical and business topics, constant curiosity and intellectual humility, and the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with a broad variety of internal and external stakeholders. This role in particular requires the judgment to hold many moving programs at once, the discipline to keep a predictable reporting rhythm when everyone around you is improvising, and the credibility to pull status from engineering and science teams and turn it into something a customer or an executive can trust.

In this role, you will own how IonQ delivers on its commitments to customers for on-premise quantum computing installs. Today that work is spread across many teams, with no common coordination function and no shared source of truth for who owes what, by when. You will change that: build the lightweight systems, reviews, and reporting cadence that keep delivery predictable; stand up the coordination function across GTM, Product, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Finance; and hire and lead a small team of program managers to scale the function as our customer base and product portfolio grow. Customer Success and Account Executives will continue to own the broader commercial and customer relationship, but you will own the delivery relationship for our highest-profile, highest-value customers, from contract signature through acceptance.

If you're passionate about bringing order to ambiguity, energized by the operational challenge of delivering hard technology to demanding customers, and excited about the opportunity to make a significant impact on the trajectory of IonQ and the quantum computing industry at large, we'd love to hear from you

• →Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent real-world experience
• →12+ years of experience in technical program management, delivery leadership, or equivalent roles, in hardware, deep-tech, or otherwise complex systems environments
• →A track record of leading cross-functional delivery of complex, multi-team programs for external customers, including ones with formal reporting and governance requirements
• →Experience building and leading a program management team
• →Enough technical fluency to pull status directly from engineering, facilities, and other technical teams and turn it into reporting that customers and executives trust
• →World-class written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to articulate complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences
• →A demonstrated ability to act as a self-starting, high-accountability leader in ambiguous and challenging environments, driving impact through persistence and adaptability

Preferred, but not required if you have a willingness and proven ability to learn quickly

• Experience delivering physical hardware or complex scientific instruments to customers, including the handoff from manufacturing to field deployment and bring-up
• Experience standing up or scaling a program-management or delivery function from scratch
• Familiarity with Quantum Computing, Quantum Information Science, or deep-tech R&D.
• Experience in Private Cloud Deployment, Scientific Computing, or High Performance Computing — their tools, users, business models, and operational challenges
• Direct experience with government contracting and milestone-based technical reporting for scientific or research missions (DARPA, DOE, NSF, or similar)

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