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Staff Product Manager, Core Primitives
TemporalUnited States - Remote Opportunity · Remote · full time · Staff
$185,000 – $260,000
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What this role is
This role leads product strategy for Temporal's core workflow primitives, working across engineering and SDK teams to simplify how developers model long-running systems and handle failure. It suits experienced product managers with deep technical fluency in distributed systems who can balance developer experience with infrastructure constraints across multiple platforms.
Our summary, not Temporal’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
What they ask for
Required
- 8+ years product management experience on technical products
- Experience turning technical domains into strategy and shipped outcomes
- Strong technical fluency in distributed systems, workflow orchestration, or platform abstractions
- Ability to reason about API semantics, failure modes, and reliability tradeoffs
- High standards for developer experience across APIs, SDKs, and documentation
- Track record shipping technical products and measuring adoption
- Ability to translate AI workload patterns into platform requirements
- Balance open-source, Cloud, and enterprise needs
- Product storytelling for technical audiences
Nice to have
- Experience with workflow engines, durable execution, or job queues
- Experience building across multiple SDKs or platform surfaces
- Experience with AI agent platforms or durable execution for AI
- Hands-on engineering experience or infrastructure product background