Demand Generation Manager: Accelerate the Quantum Revolution
The Opportunity: Driving Pipeline & Revenue Impact
We are looking for a Demand Generation Manager to lead a team of specialists in building and executing the demand generation strategy for Qblox. This is a critical role in translating technical superiority into measurable commercial results, directly impacting SQLs and contributing indirectly to order intake targets. You will work closely with Sales, Product Marketing, Field Marketing, and the broader Marketing team to align strategy, campaigns, and execution globally.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of demand generation specialists, fostering high performance and collaboration.
- Design, implement, and optimize integrated campaigns across channels to generate high-quality leads and accelerate conversion to SQLs.
- Analyze campaign performance and continuously improve tactics to balance quantity of MQLs with quality and conversion rates.
- Collaborate closely with sales and field marketing to ensure alignment of pipeline and customer engagement strategies.
- Provide insights and reporting to senior leadership on lead generation performance, trends, and pipeline contribution.
- Partner with Product Marketing to ensure messaging and campaigns resonate with target audiences.
Skills & Qualifications
- 7+ years of B2B demand generation experience in high-tech, deep-tech, or solutions marketing environments.
- Proven track record of managing teams and executing campaigns that drive measurable business outcomes.
- Strong analytical skills with experience in marketing automation tools, CRM systems, and reporting.
- Excellent collaboration, communication, and leadership skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or related field; technical background a plus.
Why Join Qblox in Delft?
High Impact: Lead the creation of a global demand generation engine for a cutting-edge technology company.
Collaborative Environment: Join a passionate, multidisciplinary team where ideas and ownership thrive.
Growth & Purpose: Lead and contribute to a high-growth, international marketing strategy that drives pipeline, brand authority, and market leadership
*Acquisition in response to this vacancy by recruitment agencies is not appreciated.
TECHNICAL & MARKET ANALYSIS | Appended by Quantum.Jobs
BLOCK 1 — EXECUTIVE SNAPSHOT
This senior commercial leadership function is architecturally essential for monetizing Qblox's core technology—quantum control stacks and instrumentation—by industrializing the path from marketing-qualified interest (MQLs) to sales-qualified opportunities (SQLs) and ultimately to booked revenue. The role’s mandate transcends mere campaign execution, focusing instead on scaling the global pipeline generation engine, optimizing conversion physics across the funnel, and establishing predictive market engagement models. Success is defined by translating deep-tech product superiority into a defensible commercial market share, thereby securing Qblox's position as a critical infrastructure vendor in the quantum computing hardware ecosystem.
BLOCK 2 — INDUSTRY & ECOSYSTEM ANALYSIS
The quantum computing value chain is bifurcated: a) the highly capitalized hardware layer (quantum processing units, QPUs) and b) the control/readout layer, which is crucial for maximizing QPU coherence and utility. Qblox occupies a critical position in the latter, competing in the complex quantum instrumentation segment. This market is characterized by long sales cycles, highly specialized buyer personas (Ph.D. researchers, national lab procurement, enterprise CTOs), and an extreme technical-to-commercial translation requirement. A primary ecosystem bottleneck is the high Technology Readiness Level (TRL) required for commercial control hardware that can reliably manage superconducting and spin qubit architectures at scale. Current limitations include fragmentation in marketing data, which obstructs predictive pipeline forecasting, and a structural gap in the workforce capable of executing B2B demand generation for deep-tech—a niche requiring fluency in both complex scientific messaging and revenue operations. The vendor landscape rewards authoritative presence, demanding marketing functions that can deliver technically rigorous content and data-driven engagement, transforming skeptical researchers into validated, high-value commercial accounts. The imperative for this role is to build a scalable commercial bridge across this technical chasm, ensuring that superior product performance reliably converts into measurable financial throughput, sustaining the company’s capital requirements and market expansion efforts.
BLOCK 3 — TECHNICAL SKILL ARCHITECTURE
The required seven years of deep-tech demand generation experience enables the rapid construction of a defensible revenue operations (RevOps) framework, minimizing data latency between initial market interest and qualified sales action. Proficiency in marketing automation platforms (MAPs) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems is leveraged not for task management, but for developing advanced attribution models and lead scoring algorithms optimized for low-volume, high-value opportunities typical of scientific instrumentation. This skillset allows the incumbent to move beyond simple lead tracking into true pipeline velocity optimization, identifying and removing conversion friction points specific to the quantum hardware procurement lifecycle. Furthermore, this deep analytical capability ensures campaign budgets are allocated based on signal-to-noise ratio in lead quality, thereby guaranteeing maximum capital efficiency—a non-negotiable requirement for high-growth, venture-backed hardware firms.
BLOCK 4 — STRATEGIC IMPACT * Establishes the quantitative basis for market entry into new global quantum research clusters.
* Reduces the cost of customer acquisition (CAC) for high-value scientific instrumentation.
* Accelerates the average time-to-qualification (TTQ) for leads migrating from research interest to commercial intent.
* Creates a feedback loop between product messaging efficacy and engineering priorities.
* Drives brand authority by positioning Qblox as the definitive thought leader in scalable quantum control infrastructure.
* Mitigates commercial risk associated with long-term, capital-intensive quantum development cycles.
* Increases the institutional awareness of Qblox’s control system utility across academic, governmental, and corporate R\&D end-markets.
* Scales the capacity of the sales team by ensuring all inbound leads meet rigorous, pre-defined Sales Qualified Lead (SQL) criteria.
* Translates technical hardware benchmarks into compelling, commercially relevant value propositions.
* Develops a data-driven framework for predicting future revenue based on current funnel metrics and campaign performance.
BLOCK 5 — FOOTER
Industry Tags: Quantum Control Systems, B2B Deep-Tech Marketing, High-Tech Demand Generation, Quantum Computing Hardware, Revenue Operations (RevOps), Qubit Control Electronics, Scientific Instrumentation Marketing, Global Campaign Strategy, Pipeline Management
Keywords: Quantum computing market penetration, B2B lead generation strategy high-tech, Quantum hardware commercialization, Deep science marketing metrics, Quantum technology pipeline acceleration, Global demand generation leadership, Qubit control systems buyer journey, Deep-tech sales funnel optimization, Marketing automation for quantum companies, Commercializing quantum innovation, Quantum technology market analysis, Revenue growth quantum start-up, High-value B2B lead scoring, Quantum instrumentation marketing campaigns
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