Director, Product Marketing – Core Products

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Washington.

📋 Description

• Foster strong, lasting relationships with engineering leaders and engineers throughout Temporal.

• Maintain oversight of the Product and Engineering roadmap while evaluating capabilities in relation to customer needs, market opportunities, competition, and GTM significance.

• Determine whether capabilities necessitate research, positioning, technical proof, adoption guidance, a launch, or no external announcement.

• Develop and manage Temporal’s monthly and special-edition launch processes.

• Oversee product and portfolio positioning across open-source technology, Cloud, core primitives, SDKs, developer experience, production features, and AI capabilities.

• Articulate customer value concerning reliability, scalability, performance, availability, security, capacity, migration, and developer tooling.

• Compose and refine positioning and messaging for major products and launches.

• Lead customer interviews and the rotating case-study program.

• Recruit, develop, and prioritize Product Marketing Engineers.

• Direct Temporal’s technology ecosystem strategy and coordinate joint launches with partners.

• Engage with at least 3–4 customers each month.

• Support strategic sales initiatives and collaborate with sales stakeholders.

• Make trade-offs regarding launch and technical communication.

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Developer Relations, Documentation, Sales, Solutions Architecture, Business Development, and GTM leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive product marketing experience with developer tools, cloud infrastructure, open-source software, distributed systems, data infrastructure, or another highly technical product.

• Proven experience in leading and developing senior individual contributors while remaining actively involved in strategy, writing, and execution.

• Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with Engineering, translating technical work into effective positioning, launch decisions, and adoption programs.

• Technical proficiency with APIs, SDKs, distributed systems, reliability, performance, security, and cloud architecture.

• Exceptional skills in positioning and writing.

• Strong judgment regarding priorities and the ability to differentiate significant market moments from simple feature announcements.

• Experience collaborating with a large global sales organization and producing high-quality marketing assets.

• Familiarity with Command of Message.

• Possess the judgment and presence to work alongside senior Product and Engineering leaders as a peer.

• Adaptability to work in a growing company with a dynamic roadmap, market conditions, and organizational boundaries.

• Previous experience as a product manager, engineer, solutions architect, or other technical practitioner (preferred).

• Experience involving workflow orchestration, event-driven systems, microservices, cloud platforms, or AI infrastructure (preferred).

• Background in creating launch and product marketing systems within a scaling organization (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity.

• Equal opportunity employment.

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

• Option to opt-out of interview recording without affecting candidacy.