Product Manager | Quantum Control Stack for Qubit and Quantum Computing Research

Your mission:
To further solidify the competitive position of Qblox, and provide a clear path for growth, we are looking for a highly motivated Product Manager with an entrepreneurial mindset and solid market understanding who identifies themselves as having a passion for customer value propositioning. 

Working with strategic customers:

• Define the global most influential labs specific to your market segment

• Map out customer/application breakdown within your market segment

• Proactively establish professional and productive relationships with key stakeholders in the market. 

• Represent Qblox at relevant gatherings/conferences, positioning us as a thought leader in the market segment.

• Assess, clarify, and validate customer requirements, needs, and goals on a consistent basis and keep track of this in the Market Requirement Documents. 

• Maintain relations and application understanding with installed base.

• Support experiment discussions with strategic end-users during the sales process.
  

Effective Product roadmap implementation:

• Define market trends for responsible market segments, bundle and describe user requirements over a rolling date range of 3 years, and rank your requirements in priority. 

• Convert market requirements into high level product definitions, backed by a high-level business case to be agreed upon with the board

• Drive the making of the product business case and write the market plan including product positioning, competitor analysis, and value documents.

  • Define products (customer-product fit) and roadmap, describing

  • Use-cases

  • Key features & benefits

  • Key performance specifications

• Liaise with R&D, monitor product development progress and provide input on development dilemmas

• Guides the MSO team with formulating a product launch plan, provides content and selection to marketing collateral, and provides the content to product press releases.

• Liaise with the customer support team to obtain customer feedback on products.
  

Delivering on the organization’s strategy:

• Monitor sales and revenue progress of the product portfolio

• Incorporate customer feedback into product roadmap, continuously improving usability and competitive advantage

• PhD degree in experimental quantum Physics, from a top tier university.

• A solid understanding of customer’s perception of value when it comes to applying our technology to research of superconducting or spin qubits

• Hands-on lab skills. Solid experience in qubit characterization, tune-up, and control at both pulse and gate level

• A highly-motivated team player with a creative, problem-solving & self-starting ‘can-do mentality’

• Data & metrics-driven scientific mind with eye for business opportunities

• Excellent written, verbal communication & interpersonal skills

Preferred qualifications

• Strong project management, multitasking, and decision-making skills