Temporal Technologies
Staff Product Manager, Core Primitives
$160K–$262K
United States (Remote) +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Location
- United States (Remote)
Canada (Remote) - Experience
- 8+ years of product management experience.
About the job
Own the strategy and roadmap for Temporal’s Core Primitives, improving how developers model, coordinate, and operate long-running production workloads.
What you'll do
- Set the charter’s strategy, roadmap, and success measures using customer, field, and community input.
- Partner with engineering and SDK leads to ship improvements across Temporal’s server, APIs, and SDKs.
- Support adoption through positioning, documentation, examples, migration guidance, and launch work.
What they ask 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 strategy, roadmaps, success measures, and shipped outcomes.
- Strong technical fluency in distributed systems, workflow or orchestration systems, event-driven architectures, APIs/SDKs, or comparable platform abstractions.
- Track record shipping technical products with engineering, measuring adoption, learning from users, and iterating.
Nice to have
- Experience with workflow engines, durable execution, job queues, data pipelines, scheduling systems, or event-driven platforms.
- Experience with AI agent platforms, tool calling, or durable execution for AI workloads.
Pay
$160K – $262.5K USD base salary
Tools
Temporal, server, APIs, SDKs, Cloud
AI focus
Translate emerging workload patterns, including AI agents and tool calling, into platform requirements for primitives, APIs, SDKs, and integrations.
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