temporal - Staff Product Manager, Core Primitives
Requirements
• 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 • Strong technical fluency in distributed systems, workflow or orchestration systems, event-driven architectures, APIs/SDKs, or comparable platform abstractions • 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 • Track record shipping technical products with engineering, then measuring adoption, learning from users, and iterating • 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 • Strong product storytelling for technical audiences, including strategy, launch narratives, tradeoffs, and developer-facing guidance • Experience with workflow engines, durable execution, job queues, data pipelines, scheduling systems, or event-driven platforms • Experience building products across multiple programming languages, SDKs, or platform surfaces • Experience with AI agent platforms, tool calling, or durable execution for AI workloads • Hands-on engineering experience or meaningful experience building with infrastructure products
Responsibilities
• 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 • Set clear product boundaries and success criteria so developers, internal teams, and adjacent product areas know how Core Primitives should be used and extended • Shape the external story for your area through positioning, launch narratives, documentation, examples, and close partnership with Developer Relations, Marketing, and field teams • Ship improvements with the documentation, examples, migration guidance, and launch support needed for adoption
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