AI-Native Platform Designer for Scalable Agent Workloads

Temporal Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal is seeking a Staff Product Designer to shape how developers build, run, and scale AI agents on Temporal, from the agent platform to compute and workers.

You will design with AI, collaborate with PMs and engineers, extend the Design System, and translate complex infrastructure into clear interfaces. Strong systems thinking and experience with developer tools are required. This is a hands-on, end-to-end ownership role with rapid prototyping.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product design of complex, technical products.
• Solid understanding of compute/infrastructure concepts (workers, scaling, queues).
• Portfolio showing systems thinking and 0→1 work in developer tools or data-heavy interfaces.
• Experience designing AI-powered products or agent experiences.
• Fluency with AI tools and comfort with GitHub/terminal environments.
• Hands-on experience with Figma.

Responsibilities

• Design experiences for building, running, deploying, and observing agentic workloads on Temporal across surfaces.
• Shape the compute experience end-to-end, including worker configuration, scaling, and cost understanding.
• Create future state prototypes with design leadership to align roadmaps.
• Collaborate across Cloud UI, CLI, SDKs, and documentation.
• Design with AI as a daily practice and bring AI perspective to product decisions.
• Partner with PMs and Engineers from discovery through delivery to ship at Temporal pace and scale.
• Contribute to and extend Temporal's Design System for agentic use cases.

Skills

Product design

Systems thinking

AI experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Figma

GitHub

Terminal

Design System

Job description

Temporal is seeking a Staff Product Designer to shape how developers build, run, and scale AI agents on Temporal, from the agent platform to compute and workers.

You will design with AI, collaborate with PMs and engineers, extend the Design System, and translate complex infrastructure into clear interfaces. Strong systems thinking and experience with developer tools are required. This is a hands-on, end-to-end ownership role with rapid prototyping.