Staff Product Manager, Temporal Technologies

• 8+ years of product management experience, with significant time on platform, infrastructure, or developer-facing products
• Track record of generating area-level strategy - framing the problem space, making bets, connecting investments into a thesis. Strong execution on individual features isn't sufficient signal for this role
• You've defined what a platform area becomes, not just shipped what was on the roadmap
• You can hold a coherent vision across multiple primitives that ship on different timelines to different language ecosystems
• You've driven complex cross-team delivery - shipping features across multiple SDKs or client libraries, coordinating without direct authority
• You can go deep on technical behavior - you understand the difference between a timeout and a cancellation, and why it matters for the developer
• You're rigorous about customer evidence - you don't prioritize based on intuition when data exists
• You've partnered with engineering leadership, not just engineering teams - you influence technical direction, not just product requirements
• Experience with workflow engines, orchestration platforms, or durable execution
• Familiarity with the competitive landscape: Restate, Inngest, Durable Objects, Step Functions

Desirable

• Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer’s toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen
• Our values guide us —they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We’re curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble
• Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
• Temporal is the durable execution platform that lets developers write code that survives any failure. Thousands of companies run mission-critical applications on Temporal - from payment processing to AI agent orchestration
• We're hiring a Staff Product Manager to own the core primitives: the building blocks developers use to express durable patterns. You'll own Workflows, Activities, Timers, Signals & Updates, Child Workflows, Schedules, Batch, and Nexus connectivity. Over time, scope expands to include Solutions implementation
• Jessica (portfolio lead) provides portfolio direction. You frame problems and generate strategy for your area - deciding what expands, what stays maintenance-mode, and how primitives connect into a coherent platform story
• Generate the area strategy that connects primitives, connectivity, and composition into a coherent thesis - what expands, why, and how investments compound
• Frame the problem space and make bets - which primitives need investment, which are mature, and where the next leverage point is
• Drive 1-pagers and PRDs for primitive improvements and new capabilities
• Own cross-SDK delivery for each primitive - coordinate with SDK teams to ensure consistent behavior across Go, Java, TypeScript, Python, and .NET
• Run customer validation - identify who's hitting primitive gaps, gather evidence, and use it to prioritize
• Drive primitive correctness - defaults, error messages, silent failures, cancellation, timeouts
• Act as domain lead for the primitives area; could take on Senior PMs as the area matures
• Partner with engineering leadership to shape technical direction, not just product requirements
• Represent the primitives perspective in product-staff reviews and company-level planning
• What you'll own:
• Primitives: Workflows, Activities (standalone, local), Timers, Signals & Updates, Child Workflows, Schedules, Batch (new), Nexus
• Cross-cutting: Primitive defaults & error handling, composition patterns, Solutions implementation (over time)