Staff Product Manager – Core Primitives

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the product strategy and roadmap for a dedicated Core Primitives initiative.

• Convert insights from customers, field teams, and the open-source community into strategic platform decisions, determining when to enhance an existing primitive, introduce a new abstraction, modify SDK/API behavior, develop an integration, enhance guidance, or create a more comprehensive product experience.

• Collaborate closely with engineering to deliver core behavior enhancements across servers, SDKs, and APIs, streamlining the modeling, operation, and reliability of Temporal in production environments.

• Establish developer experience objectives and success metrics prior to major investments, then validate, assess, and refine with technical users.

• Define explicit product boundaries and success criteria so that developers, internal teams, and adjacent product areas understand the usage and extension of Core Primitives.

• Craft the external narrative for your area through effective positioning, launch stories, documentation, examples, and strong collaboration with Developer Relations, Marketing, and field teams.

• Deliver enhancements alongside the necessary documentation, examples, migration guidance, and launch support to facilitate adoption.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of product management experience, particularly in platform, infrastructure, developer tools, or other technical products.

• Proven ability to transform ambiguous technical domains into a clear strategy, roadmap, success metrics, and delivered results.

• Strong technical fluency in distributed systems, workflow or orchestration systems, event-driven architectures, APIs/SDKs, or similar platform abstractions.

• Capability to analyze API semantics, failure modes, state management, reliability, scalability, and cost tradeoffs.

• High expectations for developer experience across APIs, SDKs, documentation, examples, onboarding processes, and production workflows.

• Demonstrated success in shipping technical products collaboratively with engineering, followed by measuring adoption, learning from users, and iterating on feedback.

• Ability to interpret emerging workload patterns, including AI agents and tool calling, into platform requirements for primitives, APIs, SDKs, and integrations.

• Skill in balancing open-source developer experience, cloud adoption, and enterprise production requirements.

• Strong storytelling skills for technical audiences, encompassing strategy, launch narratives, trade-offs, and developer-facing guidance.

🏝️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays.

• Full coverage of premiums for Medical, Dental, and Vision.

• AD&D, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available).

• Empower 401K Plan.

• Additional benefits 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.

• Extra perks for all international employees, including 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.