Temporal Technologies - Staff Product Manager, Core Primitives
Requirements
• 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 • You've worked on cross-language or cross-platform products • Familiarity with the competitive landscape: Restate, Inngest, Durable Objects, Step Functions • You've personally built or contributed to distributed systems"
Responsibilities
• 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 • Primitives: • Cross-cutting: Primitive defaults & error handling, composition patterns, Solutions implementation (over time) • Cross-cutting:
Benefits
• The estimated salary range for this role is $185,000 - $260,000, based on experience and location. • Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan. • Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays • 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision • AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available) • Empower 401K Plan • Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more! • Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com. Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness. • Travel • Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together. • $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals • $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships) • $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account • $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you) • $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet • Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
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