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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Technical Program Manager - **Company:** Ionq, Inc. - **Location:** Boulder, CO, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $270,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Application Layers, Computing Platforms, JIRA, Cloud Computing, Compilers, Computer Networks, Concurrent Computing, Programming Tools, Internet Security, Quantum Computing, Cadence Virtuoso, Software Engineering, Concurrency, Technical Debt, Information Technology, Functional Programming, Multiplatform - **Published:** October 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-staff-technical-program-manager-compute-platform-boulder-co--fdd5cc38-958d-4043-bab8-976769933c6f ## About the Role * 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 * Willingness to re-baseline against reality rather than defend dates that have stopped being true, and the judgment to tell a target that motivates from one that just generates fiction * You''ve built or automated the reconciliation between planning docs and ticket systems, and you treat drift between them as a defect * Fluency moving between fast-cycle delivery and longer-horizon program building as the situation demands * AI as a core part of how you work. You''ve built agent-driven workflows for program management and want to push that much further * Experience in customer-facing technical roles * Highly effective written and verbal communication Preferred Qualifications: * Experience standing up program tracking and reporting infrastructure from scratch. You''ve designed a team''s operating cadence, not just scheduled it, and polled the people affected before changing it * Customer-facing technical experience * Capacity and staffing modeling from conflicting inputs, with the discipline to label an unknown as unknown * A demonstrated ability to earn technical stakeholders'' trust through consistency and results * Genuine enthusiasm for reading and writing PRDs and ERDs * Working knowledge of quantum computing, though no quantum background is required. We''ll teach you!, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Application Programming Interface (API), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Atlassian JIRA, Cadence, Cloud Computing, Compensation and Benefits, Computer Networks, Computer Services, Computer Systems, Concurrency, Concurrent Programming Language Family, Cross-Functional, Customer Relations, Customer Support/Service, Drug Discovery, Establish Priorities, Financial Modeling, Functional Programming Languages, Internet Security, Leadership, Logistics, Material Science, Multiplatform/Cross-Platform, On Call, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Product Requirements Document (PRD), Productivity Model, Programming Tools, Project/Program Management, Quantum Computing, Reconciliation, Regulations, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Software Development, Team Lead/Manager, Technical Delivery, Technical Leadership, Technical Recruiting, Time Management, Training/Teaching, United States Citizen, Willing to Travel ## Description Compute Platform turns quantum capability into quantum utility by building the APIs, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, and application layer that connect IonQ''s QPUs to users. Without it, powerful hardware goes nowhere. We're hiring a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager to lead cross-functional programs across the application platform, developer tooling, and compiler stack. You'll report directly to the VP of the department and carry program-level decision-making authority, with the ownership that comes with it. You'll work across four engineering teams and roughly forty engineers, supporting multiple concurrent programs. You''ll operate in high ambiguity: the problems here don''t have established playbooks, because turning quantum computers into commercial products is a problem nobody has finished solving. If that sounds like the interesting part, we should talk. This is a high-visibility role with ownership of some of the company''s highest-priority initiatives. As such, this role will routinely interact with senior technical leadership and key partners. 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