The Product Manager will lead product development and strategy in quantum technology, guiding teams and integrating customer feedback to enhance solutions.
About the team
At Q-CTRL, the Product team is at the forefront of shaping the future of quantum technology, pioneering the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. We steward the product portfolio that transforms groundbreaking research into software solutions that drive real-world impact. The product team collaborates with brilliant minds across research, engineering, design, marketing, and sales, bringing disciplines together to achieve breakthroughs that make quantum technologies useful for our customers today.
About the role
This amazing role thrives on exceptional ownership, adaptability, systems thinking, a figure-it-out mindset, a bias-to-action approach, and confident, decisive leadership—because there’s no playbook for what we’re building. If you’re excited about charting new territory and shaping a once-in-a-generation technology, we’d love to invite you to consider coming along for the journey.
Reporting to the Quantum Computing Product Lead, this role will own and launch new solvers that unlock applications and integrations, expanding Q-CTRL’s product portfolio. The role spans new product development across quantum hardware virtualization and abstraction, HPC and on-prem deployments, QEC architectures and primitives, new quantum functions, and innovative go-to-market models. You will also help guide the evolution and technical leadership of Fire Opal, partnering closely with teams across research, engineering, design, sales, and marketing.
What you'll be doing:
- Own the Problem: Own the problem space, along with the opportunity and agency to solve challenges. You’re unafraid of the unknown, maintain a figure-it-out mindset, and embrace ramping up on new domains quickly and with infectious curiosity.
- Bring Teams Together: Drive product development, envision roadmaps with disciplined prioritization, shape team culture, influence operational processes, and evolve go-to-market strategies with world-class engineers, designers, and marketers while upholding world-class development process and craft.
- Deliver Outcomes over Output: Proactively iterate on features based on customer data, feedback, and technology and market trends, evolving the product and optimizing for customer impact and the potential of the development team.
- Build for Scale: Leverage expertise in product technology stacks to inform and guide development teams to build platform features at scale.
Ideally you’ll have:
- 5+ years product management or related industry experience.
- Experience identifying significant opportunities, and driving product vision, strategies, requirements, and roadmaps in the context of broader organizational strategies and goals.
- Track record of driving a full product development lifecycle, integrating customer feedback into product requirements, driving prioritization and pre/post-launch execution.
- Enthusiasm and resilience in a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are the norm.
- Worked in a technical environment and with development tools and systems, alongside a broad, cross-functional team, often with a lot of uncertainty, to align the team and execute towards key milestones.
- Comfortable delivering technical presentations and presenting to customers and executives.
Salary
The base salary for this position is targeted between $165K - $220K and will ultimately be determined by specific job-related skills, experience, level, location and other contributing factors. Depending on the position offered, this role may be eligible for annual discretionary bonuses, equity and other forms of compensation outside of the targeted range. For more information on benefits at Q-CTRL, please visit our careers page at https://q-ctrl.com/careers.
Should you have any questions related to the compensation package, please speak directly with the Talent Acquisition representative.
About Q-CTRL
Q-CTRL is the global leader in AI-powered quantum control infrastructure software. We build the tools that make quantum technology useful, solving the hardest challenges in quantum computing and quantum sensing to deliver real-world impact.
Founded in 2017, we operate globally with offices in Sydney, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berlin, and Oxford. Our teams bring together technical and multi-disciplinary expertise across the product lifecycle, and we’re hiring talent to help scale every part of the business. We work quickly to turn cutting-edge science into deployable technology.
In 2024 we raised US$113 million in Series B funding, the largest aggregate investment for a quantum software company. Six months later we delivered the first commercial quantum advantage with Ironstone Opal, our field-validated quantum navigation solution for defense and industry.
At Q-CTRL, we prioritize outcomes over hours. We offer flexibility, equity potential, and competitive benefits that reflect our high-performance culture. If you’re ready to help shape the future of quantum, we’d love to hear from you!
Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Please be advised that our communications will only come from the @q-ctrl.com domain. All our active job postings are available on our company website.
To recruitment agencies, we do not accept unsolicited branded profiles and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Top Skills
Hpc
Product Management Tools
Quantum Technology
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