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Salary: USD 160,000 - 240,000 / annual
IonQ is the world's leading quantum computing platform and merchant supplier, delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. The company is headquartered in College Park, Maryland, with operations across the US and internationally, and serves customers including Amazon Web Services and AstraZeneca.
As Associate General Counsel, Product, you will report to the Head of Product Legal and serve as a trusted legal partner to IonQ's product, research, engineering, and go-to-market teams. This is a foundational role in building a dedicated product legal function designed to scale with the business. Your impact will be defined not by practice area but by your ability to shape how IonQ's products are designed, built, and brought to market.
Key responsibilities include:
- Counsel product and research teams with practical, business-calibrated legal guidance across the full product lifecycle, with regulatory compliance and strategic transactions as core expertise areas
- Lead regulatory compliance efforts for the manufacture, distribution, and sale of IonQ's products in the United States and abroad
- Draft, negotiate, and execute complex technology-driven transactions including strategic partnerships, licensing, joint development, and supply and manufacturing arrangements
- Shape the playbooks, processes, and infrastructure of the new product legal function
- Collaborate closely with product, research, engineering, finance, privacy, compliance, trade, and other cross-functional stakeholders
- Translate complex legal concepts into clear, actionable guidance for non-lawyers, and render business strategy in terms that sharpen product legal's advice
Travel up to 10% is expected. The role offers flexibility to work fully remote or hybrid from US offices.
REQUIREMENTS:
- J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar (or eligibility for in-house/registered counsel status)
- 8+ years of relevant experience at a leading law firm and/or in-house legal department
- Substantial experience advising on regulatory compliance for the manufacturing, distribution, and sale of technology products, both in the US and abroad
- Proven track record of drafting, negotiating, and executing complex technology transactions with direct impact on business or product strategy
- Demonstrated versatility to move between regulatory and transactional matters, with mindset to build skills on matters outside core practice areas
- Appetite for novel legal questions, judgment to advise confidently amid ambiguity, and drive to work where technology is unprecedented and legal frameworks are still being written
- Desire to become a force-multiplier for the team, uncovering opportunities for speed and efficiency, including leveraging AI tools
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- In-house legal experience with a mature US technology company
- Experience specific to hardware products or hardware-focused businesses
- Experience supporting post-acquisition integration of products, technologies, or businesses
- Proficiency with multiple languages
