Staff Product Manager, Core Primitives

What you’ll do

• 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

What we’re looking for

• 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

Nice to have

• 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

Compensation

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.

U.S. 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!