Product Manager Team Lead - QEC and post synthesis

Classiq builds the software layer for quantum computing: a compiler, IDE, and platform that takes quantum algorithms from a high-level description down to hardware-ready execution. We are now building the software stack for the fault-tolerant era, where quantum error correction (QEC) turns noisy physical qubits into reliable logical ones. Our compilation and resource-estimation pipeline for surface-code lattice-surgery architectures is already being integrated into the product, and our roadmap is to become the compiler and resource-estimation layer across every emerging fault-tolerant hardware stack.

We are hiring a Product Team Lead to own our QEC initiative end-to-end and to lead a set of tightly connected product areas around it. This is a hands-on management role: you will personally drive our QEC product strategy while building and leading a team that also owns quantum execution, the Classiq quantum library, and a portfolio of business and partnership initiatives. You must be an outstanding technical product leader who can reason about hard, systems-level problems, earn the trust of a top-notch research team, and ramp quickly on the QEC domain.

What You'll Do

• Set and communicate a crisp product vision and roadmap across QEC, execution, and the Classiq library, and align it with the company strategy and quarterly plan.

• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with our QEC head of research and R&D leads to translate a research-heavy roadmap into a shippable product with clear scope, sequencing, and success criteria.

• Run discovery with users, design partners, and hardware companies; convert their real constraints into requirements and credible resource-estimation deliverables.

• Own prioritization and trade-offs across a broad surface area (research bets vs. near-term delivery, depth vs. breadth of architecture support).

• Build, manage, and grow a product team; set the bar for product craft, writing, and decision-making.

• Drive the business side: partnership scoping, positioning, packaging, and the narrative that makes Classiq the default FT software layer.

• Keep execution honest: track delivery, surface risk early, and close the loop between roadmap commitments and what ships.

Who You Are

• 7+ years in product management, including experience leading or mentoring PMs, in a deeply technical product (developer tools, compilers, EDA, HPC, ML infrastructure, scientific computing, or similar).

• PhD or MSc in Quantum Information, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related technical field.

• Strong systems thinking: comfortable reasoning about compilation, optimization, resource trade-offs, and complex constrained problems.

• A track record of owning ambiguous, research-adjacent roadmaps and turning them into shipped products.

• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to earn credibility with PhD-level researchers and with commercial partners in the same week.

• Business instinct: you can shape partnerships, positioning, and packaging, not just backlog.

• Ability to ramp fast on a hard new domain and enjoy doing so.

Bonus points

• Background in quantum computing, quantum error correction, or fault tolerance (surface codes, lattice surgery, decoding, resource estimation).

• Prior experience working directly with hardware companies or research labs as partners or customers.

• Technical fluency (able to read code, specs, and research papers and hold your own in a design review).