Staff Product Manager, Core Primitives

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

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

• Convert insights from customers, field teams, and the open-source community into strategic platform decisions.

• Determine the appropriate times to enhance primitives, introduce abstractions, modify SDK/API behaviors, develop integrations, provide better guidance, or create a more comprehensive product experience.

• Collaborate with engineering to implement behavioral enhancements across Temporal’s server, SDKs, and APIs.

• Establish developer experience objectives and success metrics prior to making significant investments.

• Validate, assess, and refine solutions in collaboration with technical users.

• Set defined boundaries and success criteria for developers, internal teams, and related product areas.

• Influence external perception through launch narratives, documentation, examples, and partnerships with Developer Relations, Marketing, and field teams.

• Deliver documentation, examples, migration guidance, and launch support necessary for product adoption.

• Align the initiative with broader platform priorities alongside the product portfolio leader.

• Transform strategy into consistent behavior across Temporal’s server, APIs, SDKs, and Cloud experience.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in product management.

• Extensive background in platform, infrastructure, developer tools, or other technical products.

• Proven ability to convert ambiguous technical domains into clear strategies, roadmaps, success metrics, and deliverable outcomes.

• Strong technical proficiency 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 trade-offs.

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

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

• Ability to interpret emerging workload patterns, including AI agents and tool calling, into platform requirements.

• Aptitude for balancing open-source developer experience, Cloud adoption, and enterprise production needs.

• Strong ability to narrate product stories to technical audiences.

• Preferred experience with workflow engines, durable execution, job queues, data pipelines, scheduling systems, or event-driven platforms.

• Preferred experience in building products across various programming languages, SDKs, or platform surfaces.

• Preferred experience with AI agent platforms, tool calling, or durable execution for AI workloads.

• Hands-on engineering experience or significant background in building with infrastructure products is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• AI interview recording/transcription with the option to opt-out without affecting candidacy.