Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Xanadu is building useful and accessible quantum computers through quantum software and hardware innovation. The Director / Senior Principal Product Manager, Technical will own the roadmap, execution, developer experience, adoption, and go-to-market strategy for PennyLane, an open-source framework for quantum machine learning and quantum computing. The role partners with engineering, research, and product teams while leading product managers as the organization expands.
Responsibilities
- Roadmap & Strategy Execution: Partner directly with engineering, research, and product leadership to translate a defined product vision into a sequenced, measurable roadmap aligned with developer and market needs. Decompose strategy into workstreams, specs, and milestones, and run the weekly execution cadence that keeps teams shipping
- Developer Experience & Adoption: Own developer experience and adoption end to end, from onboarding and activation through retention and growth, along with the metrics behind them
- Technical Architecture Alignment: Drive the technical direction of the framework alongside engineering, shaping APIs, developer ergonomics, and integrations across the quantum stack
- Go-To-Market & Community Growth: Lead go-to-market for PennyLane—launches, positioning, documentation, tutorials, and community releases—to attract new developers, students, and industry scientists
- Phased Rollouts: Plan and manage controlled, phased rollouts—betas, staged releases, and feature-gated launches—to de-risk delivery and gather user feedback before general availability
- Metrics & Leadership Reporting: Measure and report on adoption, developer engagement, and roadmap progress, delivering clear product and business updates to leadership on a regular cadence
- Team Leadership: Hire, coach, and lead a team of product managers as scope expands
Skills
- 8+ years in technical product management, developer product management, or a closely related technical role within open-source software, cloud computing, AI/ML, or deep tech
- Bachelor's or Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Demonstrated experience taking an existing product vision and operationalizing it: decomposing, sequencing, and shipping against a roadmap
- Proven track record of owning go-to-market for a technical or developer product and driving measurable adoption
- Demonstrated experience partnering with software engineering teams on roadmap, technical tradeoffs, and product strategy
- Experience operating in both large organizations and fast-moving growth-stage companies
- Strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional project management skills
- Experience launching and scaling open-source developer tooling, SDKs, or enterprise deep-tech platforms
- People-management experience leading a product team (Director / Group PM track)
- Background or familiarity with quantum computing concepts, PennyLane, or classical ML frameworks
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
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