Staff Product Manager – Core Primitives

Temporal Technologies

Staff Product Manager for Temporal focused on improving developer experience for core primitives. Collaborating with engineering, defining product strategy and roadmap for critical developer tools.

Posted 6/30/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $185,000 - $260,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Product StrategyRoadmap DevelopmentAPI SemanticsEvent-Driven ArchitecturesWorkflow OrchestrationState ManagementReliability EngineeringScalability AnalysisTechnical Product ShippingSuccess Metrics Definition

Soft Skills

CollaborationCommunicationStrategic ThinkingUser-Centric IterationStorytelling