Staff Product Manager, Core Primitives
Core
Own strategy and roadmap for Core Primitives to deliver capabilities and developer experience for modeling long-running work, coordinating across systems, handling failure, and operating production workloads with Temporal.
Role type
Staff Product Manager, Platform/Infrastructure
Builds
Temporal server, APIs, SDKs, and Cloud experience
Domain
Distributed systems, workflow orchestration, event-driven architectures
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Product strategy for platform/infrastructure, translating technical domains to strategy, distributed systems fluency, API semantics reasoning, developer experience definition, technical product shipping, AI agent workload patterns, open-source vs enterprise balance, technical storytelling
Preferred skills
Workflow engines/durable execution experience, multi-language SDK experience, AI agent platform experience, hands-on engineering experience
Technologies
Temporal server, APIs, SDKs, Cloud
Responsibilities
Own product strategy and roadmap for Core Primitives, translate customer/community signals into platform bets, partner with engineering to ship core behavior improvements, define developer experience goals and success metrics, set product boundaries and success criteria, shape external story through positioning and documentation, ship improvements with migration guidance and launch support
Seniority
Staff, strategy & mentorship
