Temporal Technologies

Staff Product Manager, Core Primitives

United States · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$185k-$260kDetected 84 days ago

Distributed SystemsTemporalData EngineeringAgentic AIProduct ManagementProduct Strategy

About the role

This role is not about shipping isolated features.
It is about delivering the capabilities and developer experience that make it easier to model long-running work, coordinate across systems, handle failure, and operate production workloads with Temporal.

Own the product strategy and roadmap for a focused Core Primitives charter
Translate customer, field, and open-source community signals into platform bets, deciding when to improve an existing primitive, introduce a new abstraction, change SDK/API behavior, build an integration, improve guidance, or create a more complete product experience
Partner deeply with engineering to ship core behavior improvements across server, SDKs, and APIs, making Temporal easier to model with, operate, and trust in production
Define developer experience goals and success metrics before major investments, then validate, measure, and iterate with technical users
Ship improvements with the documentation, examples, migration guidance, and launch support needed for adoption

8+ years of product management experience, with significant time on platform, infrastructure, developer tools, or other technical products
Experience turning ambiguous technical domains into clear strategy, roadmap, success measures, and shipped outcomes
Ability to reason about API semantics, failure modes, state management, reliability, scalability, and cost tradeoffs
High standards for developer experience across APIs, SDKs, documentation, examples, onboarding paths, and production workflows
Ability to translate emerging workload patterns, including AI agents and tool calling, into platform requirements for primitives, APIs, SDKs, and integrations
Ability to balance open-source developer experience, Cloud adoption, and enterprise production needs

Experience with workflow engines, durable execution, job queues, data pipelines, scheduling systems, or event-driven platforms
Experience with AI agent platforms, tool calling, or durable execution for AI workloads

The estimated salary range for this role is $185,000 - $260,000, based on experience and location.

Track record shipping technical products with engineering, then measuring adoption, learning from users, and iterating
Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.

Customers use Temporal's core primitives to build critical systems, but too much of the experience still depends on custom patterns, deep Temporal expertise, and careful operational work.

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