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About the Role
As VP of Product Development, you will lead OQC's Product Development function, transforming validated customer needs, cutting-edge research and emerging market opportunities into scalable, commercially successful products. You'll shape how our product portfolio evolves, ensuring every investment delivers long-term customer value and supports OQC's ambitious growth strategy.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute OQC's Product Development strategy, ensuring alignment with company vision, commercial objectives and long-term growth.
- Own the Product Development roadmap and portfolio, making strategic investment, prioritisation and lifecycle decisions that maximise customer and business value.
- Partner with Research, Engineering and Architecture to transform breakthrough innovation into scalable, commercially deployable products.
- Collaborate with Product Discovery, Product Strategy and Client Solutions teams to identify opportunities to convert bespoke customer solutions into repeatable products and services.
- Establish world-class product development governance, delivery frameworks and performance metrics that enable predictable execution and informed investment decisions.
- Build, lead and develop a high-performing global Product Development organisation, driving capability growth, leadership development and organisational excellence.
- Represent OQC's product vision with executive stakeholders, customers, partners and investors while championing collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement across the business.
Requirements
- Significant experience developing and executing Product Development or Product Portfolio strategies within complex technology organisations.
- Proven track record of transforming customer requirements, research outcomes or emerging technologies into scalable commercial products.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary Product Development, Product Management or equivalent technical organisations.
- Strong background partnering with Research, Engineering and technical leadership to deliver commercially viable products.
- Demonstrated success influencing executive investment decisions and balancing commercial opportunity, customer value and technical feasibility.
- Experience establishing product governance, operating models and product management frameworks at scale.
- Strong commercial acumen, including portfolio management, budgeting, investment prioritisation and strategic planning.
- Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across technical and commercial audiences.
- Experience building high-performing teams through recruitment, coaching, succession planning and organisational development.
Skills
- Product Development strategy
- Product Portfolio strategy
- Product roadmap ownership
- Investment prioritisation
- Lifecycle management
- Commercial product development
- Product governance
- Delivery frameworks
- Performance metrics
- Team leadership
- Capability growth
- Leadership development
- Organisational excellence
- Executive communication
- Stakeholder management
- Commercial acumen
- Portfolio management
- Budgeting
- Strategic planning
- Quantum computing
- Advanced computing
- Deep technology sectors
- Enterprise technology product portfolios
- International organisations
- Distributed teams
- Executive customer engagement
- Investor engagement
- Strategic technology partner engagement
Experience Level
- 1-to-N type growth role
Education Level
- Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Business or a related discipline
- MBA, postgraduate qualification, Product Management certification or Agile certification
Salary/Compensations
- £260 million Series C funding round
Benefits
- Culture of bold innovation
- Chance to work with unique lab infrastructure
- Opportunity to redefine the limits of computation
- World-class team at the forefront of the next computational era
About the Company
- At OQC, we aren’t just theorising about the future; we’re building it.
- Born from a philosophy of bold innovation, we’ve successfully transitioned quantum computing from an academic dream into a commercial reality.
- We're just getting started and we’ve recently closed our £260 million Series C funding round – the largest fundraise ever completed by a quantum computing company in Europe.