Staff Product Manager – Core Primitives

🕒 June 30

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $185k - $260k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Temporal Technologies

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

☁️ SaaS

💰 $75M Series B on 2023-02

Software • SaaS • Cloud Computing

Temporal Technologies is a company that provides a platform for durable execution, helping developers build resilient applications by managing failures, network outages, and long-running processes. Their technology abstracts away the complexity of building scalable distributed systems, allowing developers to focus on delivering reliable systems faster. Temporal simplifies code by eliminating recovery logic, callbacks, and timers, making software more durable and fault tolerant. The platform supports a wide variety of applications, from transaction processing to applied AI, and is favored by developers for its ease of use and reliability. Temporal is open-source and offers both self-hosted and managed cloud services in multiple regions, enabling scalable, serverless application development.

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 • Additional perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup, professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.