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Salary: USD 188,000 - 282,000 / annual
IonQ, Inc. (NYSE: IONQ) is the world's leading quantum computing platform and merchant supplier, delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. The company serves major customers including Amazon Web Services and AstraZeneca, and achieved a world record in quantum computing performance in 2025 with 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity. IonQ is headquartered in College Park, Maryland, with operations across the US and internationally.
This role reports directly to the Deputy General Counsel and Chief IP Counsel and will lead the Transactions function, building and scaling a transactions practice to support development, partnerships, supply chain, commercial, and government engagements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead agreement drafting and negotiations on business-critical transactions with complex IP, technology, business, and regulatory issues
- Develop agreement templates, negotiation standards, playbooks, processes, and risk frameworks to enable high-quality work while supporting business speed and appropriate risk management
- Partner cross-functionally on company-wide initiatives to standardize the deal process from initial discussions through contract signing
- Collaborate with legal subject-matter experts to ensure contract templates and positions reflect current company objectives and legal obligations
- Serve as an embedded member of business teams, providing timely guidance, education, and commercially oriented counsel
- Manage a high-volume, fast-moving transactional workload in a deadline-driven environment
- Provide oversight of transactional work performed by other attorneys, including workload allocation, prioritization, and training
- Act as a senior escalation point for complex or high-value transactions
The ideal candidate is a business-driven senior attorney who combines strong technical transactional expertise with exceptional client-management skills and business judgment. This role is well-suited for someone who enjoys building the function and improving how work gets done, rather than simply managing people, and who can bring structure, accountability, and consistency to a rapidly evolving transactions environment.
Travel: Up to 20%
Requirements:
- J.D. and admission in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar
- 10+ years of experience negotiating complex commercial contracts, including significant in-house experience at fast-paced, mid- to large-sized companies
- Significant experience handling complex technology and commercial transactions in a sophisticated corporate or law firm environment
- Strong transactional judgment and ability to operate effectively in a high-intensity, sales-driven business environment
- Exceptional relationship-building and client management skills with ability to establish credibility and trust with demanding business stakeholders
- Strong business acumen and ability to understand business objectives and translate them into practical legal solutions
- Demonstrated ability to structure and improve legal functions, workflows, and processes
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills with high degree of accountability for managing competing demands
- Capacity to think big, bias for action, and willingness to take ownership of complex matters and broader functional initiatives
- Growth mindset focused on continuous operational improvement, efficiency, and service excellence
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and issue-spotting skills
- Ability to balance speed and commercial objectives with sound legal judgment and risk management
- Comfortable operating with significant autonomy and ambiguity
- Strong understanding of IP and Trade & Regulatory issues relevant to a global business
