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Senior Product Designer
Q-CTRL
Product, Design
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Posted on Sep 11, 2025
About us
Founded in 2017, Q-CTRL has grown to become the global leader in quantum. We’re using control to solve the hardest problems facing quantum technology, improving hardware performance and accelerating pathways to useful quantum computers and other technologies. As a product-led company, we bring together diverse teams such as product, design, engineering and research to help achieve our mission of making quantum technology useful. Join us to help shape the quantum future.
As one of the fastest growing companies in the quantum sector, we’ve had a number of key milestones:
- In November 2023, we announced an industry-first partnership with IBM Quantum Services, natively integrating our performance management software with all IBM quantum computers. Building off of this relationship, in September 2024 we started offering two services via IBM’s new Qiskit Functions Catalog as an inaugural partner.
- Designed and moved our Global HQ offices and lab space into the first purpose-built (and award winning) commercial and research facility for a quantum technology company in Australia.
- Continued to deliver real world outcomes across the quantum sectors, with our work with Australian Defence on software-ruggedized quantum sensing for navigation without GPS, as featured in the New York Times.
- In October 2024, we announced our record breaking expansion of our Series B funding round to USD $113M, with $59M USD of new capital.
- Grew our global presence to include Los Angeles, Berlin, and Oxford - as well as the recently announced office in San Francisco.
From educating the workforce on how quantum computing works, to building the next generation of quantum sensors, to delivering massive performance gains for end-users, it all starts with hiring the right talent. If you want to help us build the Quantum future, read on.
About the role
At Q-CTRL, design shapes how people experience quantum technology. We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to help us redefine how researchers, engineers, and developers interact with one of the most impactful technologies of our time.
You’ll join a collaborative design team working across brand, product, and industrial design, reporting to the Head of Design. In this role you’ll lead the design of Boulder Opal, our AI-powered quantum control software, transforming advanced physics and AI into intuitive, empowering experiences.
This is a chance to apply your craft to a new design frontier. You’ll translate deeply technical workflows into experiences that feel clear and usable, helping quantum teams unlock the full potential of their hardware.
What you'll do:
- Contribute to the overall design and product direction of Q-CTRL’s products
- Design and deliver high-quality experiences, from early concepts to polished solutions
- Partner with engineering, product, and research to define long-term strategy and short-term tactics
- Conduct user research and testing to better understand our users and refine our products
- Refine our design system to drive consistency and scalability
- Foster a culture of design excellence, mentoring and supporting the team
- Other duties within the Employee's skills and experience, or with reasonable training.
Ideally you'll have:
- 5+ years of product design experience (complex workflows, enterprise/B2B SaaS, developer tools, or API products preferred)
- A portfolio that shows strong UX, UI, and interaction design skills with a focus on quality and craft
- Proven ability to deliver end-to-end on large, complex products
- Skill in turning ambiguous problems into clear, actionable design direction
- Strong communication and storytelling skills to align stakeholders
- Experience building and scaling design systems across products
- A collaborative mindset with ease moving between discovery, prototyping, and execution
- A focus on quality and the drive to help shape a high-performing design team
Why Q-CTRL?
Flexibility: We embrace workplace flexibility so you worry more about your impact vs a rigid work schedule.
Attractive salary: You’ll get to have the start-up impact without the start-up wages.
Equity: We want people to have a sense of ownership in what they do and offer the potential for equity share and annual bonuses.
Cash bonus: We recognize exceptional performance and impact by offering annual discretionary cash bonuses.
Resources: We are well funded by the world’s best technology investors, letting us chase our ambitions with minimal constraints.
Parental support: We offer paid parental leave to support you and your loved ones.
Diversity: We’re an equal opportunity employer and actively support initiatives like the ‘Global Women in Quantum’ program to help expand the quantum workforce.
Unique culture: You’ll be surrounded by some of the world’s leading physicists, engineers, product, marketing and design people (to name a few!) with a strong desire to learn and transfer knowledge.
Meaningful values: You’ll work with an incredibly supportive team who work consistently to deliver our core values to be real, be trusted, be just and to be revered.
Personal development: We provide you with a personal development and wellness budget.
Make a dent: Last but not least you’ll have the unique opportunity to help set the direction for this revolutionary technology and truly make an impact that matters!
Q-CTRL aims to bring together cross-functional teams from many different backgrounds to help achieve our goals - we strongly encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements mentioned in the job posting.
Please be advised that our communications will only come from the @q-ctrl.com domain. All our active job postings are available on our company website.
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