Vice President, Corporate Development

Role Overview

Quantinuum is seeking a senior corporate development leader to shape and execute its external growth agenda. This position will focus on identifying, assessing, and delivering acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, and other growth initiatives that expand the company’s capabilities, scale, and market position across hardware, software, services, commercial, supply chain, and business functions. The role also requires a strong emphasis on disciplined value creation and smooth post-transaction integration.

What You Will Do

• Define and lead the company’s corporate development and external growth strategy, including the key themes that should guide future expansion.
• Evaluate value chain positioning and uncover opportunities for vertical integration, supply chain improvement, and broader capability expansion to strengthen competitive advantage.
• Track market trends, competitors, and emerging technologies to shape the M&A pipeline and identify potential acquisition or partnership targets.
• Create and run structured corporate development processes covering pipeline oversight, deal evaluation, due diligence, value assessment, value capture, and financial management.
• Manage the sourcing, qualification, and prioritization of the M&A funnel, with focus on both vertical and horizontal integration opportunities.
• Build investment cases that clearly explain strategic alignment, financial impact, and expected value creation from acquisitions and partnerships.
• Develop, govern, and grow strategic partnerships that produce measurable technical, commercial, strategic, and supply chain outcomes.
• Identify, structure, and execute joint ventures and alternative partnership models that open access to new markets, technologies, capabilities, and supply chain advantages.
• Lead transaction execution end to end with Finance and Legal partners, including diligence, structuring, negotiation, and closing.
• Own post-deal integration planning and delivery to realize synergies and align teams across hardware, software, commercial, business, and supply chain functions.
• Collaborate closely with Strategy, Product, Technical, Commercial, Finance, Legal, and Supply Chain teams to maintain alignment from strategic planning through execution and integration.
• Prepare investment papers, strategic recommendations, and board or executive updates with strong clarity, rigor, and decision value.

Requirements

• 10+ years of leadership experience in corporate development, external growth strategy, M&A, and partnerships within complex, R&D-driven environments such as quantum, AI, semiconductors, or advanced computing.
• Hands-on experience spanning the full deal lifecycle, including sourcing, diligence, structuring, negotiation, and integration.
• Strong financial and strategic judgment, including valuation work, financial modeling, and preparation of investment cases.
• Background in building strategic partnerships and joint ventures that generate measurable outcomes.
• Ability to assess value chains, supply chain dynamics, and competitive positioning to guide growth decisions.
• Proven track record of leading post-transaction integration and capturing synergies across multiple functions.
• Comfort working across hardware, software, commercial, business, and supply chain teams while influencing without direct authority.
• Executive presence and the ability to engage credibly with senior leaders and board-level stakeholders.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-changing markets and with long-term investment horizons.

Why Join Quantinuum

Quantinuum is a global leader in quantum computing, with high-performing quantum systems that set benchmarks across the industry. With more than 650 employees, including 400+ scientists and engineers across the US, UK, Germany, and Japan, the company is helping drive the quantum computing revolution.

Its full-stack approach combines best-in-class software with high-fidelity hardware to accelerate practical quantum computing and expand its impact across industries. Joining Quantinuum means working at the center of a transformative technological shift and helping shape the future of quantum computing.

Compensation and Benefits

This role is incentive eligible, and the stated pay range includes bonus target where applicable. The annual compensation range is $320,000 to $405,000, with actual pay depending on skills, education, experience, and other relevant qualifications.

• Competitive salary
• Flexible work schedule
• Employer-subsidized health, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) match for student loan repayment benefit
• Equity and 401(k) retirement savings plan
• 12 paid holidays
• Generous vacation and sick time
• Paid parental leave
• Employee discounts

Equal Opportunity and Hiring Notice

Quantinuum is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants without regard to protected characteristics such as age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, or veteran status.

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis, and there is no application deadline for this position.

The company may use artificial intelligence tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools support the recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are made by people. If more information is needed about data processing, applicants may contact the company.