Your mission
Qblox is a deep tech scaleup company with the mission to accelerate our customers in the worldwide race towards building practical quantum computers by providing the world's best quantum control stacks.
Qblox provides turnkey control stacks that speed up and simplify the operation of quantum computers. Our solutions serve the global quantum computing and quantum network markets through a qubit agnostic approach, allowing us to enable R&D labs working on the various qubit modalities (superconducting, spin, NV-centres, cold atoms).To enable our customers, we develop control stacks that combine unlevelled noise and drift performance, a low-latency arbitrary control flow and scalability up to 1000s of qubits. The control stack generates the analog electrical pulses (from DC - 18 GHz) needed for the control and readout of qubits. These analog signals are generated from 1000s of parallel channels and driven by our proprietary sequence processor technology.
The head of product manages the Product Roadmap team (now 3 fte) and reports directly to the CEO. The Product Roadmap team is responsible for the product management and product marketing management functions in the company. You'll play a pivotal role in shaping our company's product roadmap and drive us towards continued success in the market. If you're ready to lead, innovate, and make a significant impact, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.Your Mission
In this role, you will own the comprehensive product strategy from product definition, business plan, development plan, roll-out plan to product roadmap extensions through end of life. You are expected to be a central resource; collaborating closely with R&D teams, program management office, sales and quantum success teams as the product moves through its lifecycle.
This extends from increasing the profitability of our existing product lines to developing new products. In this role, you will develop business plans for new applications and drive the product generation process through market research, use case studies, competitive analysis, feasibility studies, customer engagements, product ideation, pricing, and business planning.
In this position, collaboration will be key as you and your team work closely with other department heads to coordinate activities and foster synergy across teams. You will be working closely with our sales and quantum success teams in order to translate customer needs to market requirements, product requirements, market trends and product roadmap. You need to lead the cross-functional product life cycle across all the departments within Qblox: R&D, Marketing, Sales and Operations, Strategy & Roadmap. This requires a highly motivated, talented and flexible individual who quickly adapts technical and business knowledge, with excellent communication and presentation skills, and strong organizational and management capabilities.
As part of your responsibilities, you'll have the opportunity to expand our current Product Roadmap team. You have strong people management skills, with the ability to create a working environment in which team members feel challenged, motivated, and develop and grow further. You lead by example, giving people the feeling and freedom to take ownership and accountability. You and your team grow together with our company towards the future.
Moreover, you'll have profit and loss responsibility for the Strategy & Roadmap department's budget, requiring strategic financial management to support our objectives effectively.You are leading, growing and inspiring the current Product Roadmap team (now 3fte) making sure it adequately meets its roles and responsibilities:
- Monitoring of market developments to build market roadmaps for key target markets
- Build up use case documentation that effectively communicates market needs within the company
- Perform product ideation in collaboration with other stakeholders in the company with products that efficiently and effectively meet market needs
- Develop and execute product business plans by analyzing business development opportunities and s. Use sales forecasting and strategic planning to ensure sales and profitability of our products
- Build product roadmaps that secures our disruptive and competitive position in the market
- Identify areas for company growth and drive market and product definition, product development, customer engagement, and roadmap extensions;
- Acquire deep customer knowledge through customer and conference visits. Interact with our sales and quantum success teams to gain understanding of their usecases and requirements and effectively translate these into the product roadmap and engagement strategies;
- Be an expert with respect to the competition including competitive analysis and positioning.
- Collaborates cross-functionally on competitive selling, pricing and market development solutions.
- Own product requirements, market validation and product roadmaps. Deliver product requirement documents with business cases and market feasibility and validation plans;
- Define feature priorities and decide detailed release scope working with the R&D team leads and architects;
- Evaluate the financial aspects of product development such as budgets, expenditures, research and development appropriations, return-on-investment and profit-loss projections;
- Define product roll-out and customer engagement plans working with engineering and our sales and marketing teams; support and supervise the Development of marketing materials, sale collaterals and market communication plans including launch materials, customer presentations and sales training materials;
