Senior Program Manager - Talent & Workforce Strategy

Location: This position can be onsite, hybrid from one of our US offices, or fully remote.
Travel: Up to 10% domestically. 
Job ID:  1649

The Role: 

We are looking for a Senior Program Manager, Talent & Workforce Strategy to join our People Team. As a Senior Program Manager, Talent & Workforce Strategy, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world’s best quantum computers to solve the world’s most complex problems. We're also building the People Team to match. We're at an inflection point. Multiple acquisitions, rapid global growth, and a clear mandate to create one consistent, world class employee experience across all of IonQ.

This role sits at the center of that work. You're our program architect for talent and workforce strategy. The person who takes ambiguity and turns it into frameworks, playbooks, and programs the whole company runs on. You won't inherit a finished playbook. You'll write it.

Responsibilities:

• Build, evolve, and operationalize IonQ’s core talent and workforce programs, including learning, development, trainings, and performance.
• Own the end to end program management of key People initiatives, including program design, stakeholder alignment, timelines, communications, implementation, adoption tracking, and continuous improvement.
• Design scalable learning and development programs that translate IonQ’s talent philosophy into clear expectations, practical manager tools, and measurable employee growth.
• Develop and continuously refine learning pathways for individual contributors, managers, and leaders that build the skills, behaviors, and judgment needed to perform, grow, and lead effectively at IonQ.
• Build and manage compliance training programs that are simple to complete, easy to track, and aligned to legal, regulatory, and business requirements across IonQ’s teams and geographies.
• Partner with People Business Partners, Total Rewards, Legal, Compliance, and senior leaders to ensure talent and workforce programs are consistent, credible, and aligned to evolving business needs across every IonQ company and geography.
• Use data, feedback, and program insights to measure adoption, identify gaps, and continuously improve the learning, compliance, performance, and talent programs we build.
• Create clear communications, enablement materials, and change management plans that help managers and employees understand what is changing, why it matters, and how to take action.
• Establish repeatable processes, templates, and operating rhythms that make talent and workforce programs simple, trusted, and scalable as IonQ grows.
• Bring a strong program management mindset to learning and talent work by balancing strategic design with hands on execution, operational rigor, and a bias for action.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in talent management, learning and development, organizational development, people programs, compliance training, or workforce strategy, with a clear track record of building scalable programs from scratch.
• Strong systems thinker who can turn complex, ambiguous problems into clean frameworks, processes, and tools that scale across a global company.
• Strong program manager who can move work from strategy to execution by managing stakeholders, timelines, dependencies, risks, communications, and adoption.
• Exceptional writer and communicator who can make complicated ideas simple and build resources people actually want to use.
• Comfortable operating without a perfect playbook, across competing priorities, and with cross functional stakeholders you need to influence without formal authority.
• Business first mindset. You see the business as your customer, and everything you build should help the company move faster, raise the talent bar, and create a more consistent employee experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a high-growth or post-acquisition environment. 
• Exposure to Workday. 
• Background in organizational effectiveness or leadership development.

The approximate base salary range for this position is $111,692 - $145,649. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site.