Your mission

Qblox is seeking a Project Manager to join us in our mission to accelerate our customers in the worldwide race towards building scalable quantum computers – we do this by providing them with the world’s best quantum control stacks. 

For this particular Project Manager vacancy with us, we need someone who has some understanding of quantum technology / computing.  You will need to be comfortable in an academic and research setting, talking to grant bearers in some detail about our products.  Our Program Manager and the rest of the team can help you with the project management stuff, but a keen interest and and ability to understand our quantum tech is something you will need to bring yourself. 

The Grant Project Manager is responsible for the successful execution of Qblox’ deliverables for grants and co-development projects. Operating as part of a larger Solutions Program, the candidate will work both internally and externally with teams of R&D domain experts and other Project Managers to establish and manage deadlines, define attackable units of work, and ensure cross-domain communications. A portion of this role will also work with our Partners and Roadmap teams on tracking grant proposal progress and externally reporting out on project progress and controls. To be effective in this position candidates must possess strong interpersonal skills, with the organizational skills to enable planning, executing, and accounting for project work. 

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Proactively work with project team members to plan, estimate, and sequence logical units of work to ensure project success from ideation through proposal and execution. Finding logical divisions of work inside domain functions.

• Active management of communications to grant and co-development partners, establishing clear and concise expectations and obligations, maintaining a constant eye towards agreed upon scopes of work and protecting Qblox’s intellectual property.

• Manage the project team resources assigned to the project to deliver success on time and on budget.

• Work with the Program Manager and other project team members to identify relevant project deliverables, adding or removing as is necessary for project success.

• Work with the Roadmap Leaders and Partnerships team to align on external stakeholder management and long term planning.

• Help identify risks, known unknowns, and develop risk mitigation strategies during the project cycle.

• Ensure that product and technical requirements are maintained as the “truths” of the project.

• Manage Jira boards, Confluence spaces, Slack channels and other communication and documentation tools as related to the project.

• Communicate openly and often, do not be afraid to ask questions, do not be afraid to convey bad (or good) news.

• Accurately report on the status of the project, including spending and people months, resource effectiveness and utilization, at the program and executive levels.

Your profile

Enough about us, what about you?

If you are organised, like talking to people and building relationships, you have an understanding and interest in quantum technology or physics, and you can take a methodical approach to large tasks – don’t worry about not having a Project Management Certification.  Don’t let imposter syndrome get in the way of applying for ​something that might be right for you. 

To enjoy this role, we anticipate that you will have some of the following:

Skills and competencies

• Some understanding of quantum technology / computing

• Comfortable in an academic / research setting

• Ability to work across technical and functional boundaries, influence, and inspire team members to succeed.

• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills, pursuing positive ideas and questioning assumptions.

• Excellent time management skills.

• Ability to establish expectations and hold team members accountable for those expectations in a professional manner.

• Effective written and verbal communications.

• Know when to maintain decision making authority and when to escalate problems.

• Ability to take criticism and ownership of failure, while praising others for success.

• You are a self-starter and active contributor to moving the project forward, find the gaps and fill the gaps to allow work to proceed.

Education and experience

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or business. Master’s degree is a plus.

• Minimum 4 years of project management experience with extra consideration given for managing grant development and progress

• In-depth knowledge of project and reporting related tools, Jira, Confluence, Excel, etc.

• Proven track record of success in delivering complicated projects.

• Project management qualifications preferred.