April 10, 2026 Melissa Kashouh

Q-CTRL – Product Manager, Performance Management and Application Enablement

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● TALENT ONE MARKET INTELLIGENCE: Q-CTRL

🔥 TALENT LIQUIDITY:
Extremely low supply of PMs with both quantum literacy and enterprise software experience. 1:40 supply-to-demand ratio.

📈 ALPHA SIGNAL:
Quantum software is the next ‘Cloud’ transition. Securing a lead role here puts you in the top 0.1% of the compute stack, ensuring your mortgage is backed by the most significant technological shift of the decade.

EST. COMPENSATION
$190k – $240k Base + Equity Participation
SECTOR HEAT
85.9/100
CANDIDATE PROTOCOL: Do not lead with ‘product management’ buzzwords. Lead with your ability to translate complex hardware constraints (QEC, virtualization) into user-facing API/solver performance metrics.

Official Role Description: Q-CTRL

About the team
At Q-CTRL, the Product team is at the forefront of shaping the future of quantum technology, pioneering the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. We steward the product portfolio that transforms groundbreaking research into software solutions that drive real-world impact. The product team collaborates with brilliant minds across research, engineering, design, marketing, and sales, bringing disciplines together to achieve breakthroughs that make quantum technologies useful for our customers today.

About the role
This role thrives on exceptional ownership, adaptability, systems thinking, a figure-it-out mindset, a bias-to-action approach, and confident, decisive leadership—because there’s no playbook for what we’re building. If you’re excited about charting new territory and shaping a once-in-a-generation technology, we’d love to invite you to consider coming along for the journey.
 
Reporting to the Quantum Computing Product Lead, this role will own and launch new solvers that unlock applications and integrations, expanding Q-CTRL’s product portfolio. The role spans new product development across quantum hardware virtualization and abstraction, HPC and on-prem deployments, QEC architectures and primitives, new quantum functions, and innovative go-to-market models. You will also help guide the evolution and technical leadership of Fire Opal, partnering closely with teams across research, engineering, design, sales, and marketing.

Melissa Kashouh

Founder of Talent One I help enterprise leaders and investors forecast hiring surges, talent shortages, and market friction up to six weeks in advance using our patent-pending predictive intelligence platform. As the founder of Talent One AI (the intelligence layer of The Talent One), I built a system that turns lagging recruiting data into actionable foresight — helping companies reduce technical debt, protect employer brand, and hire ahead of the curve. Based in Providence, Rhode Island.
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