AI-Native Staff Product Designer, AI + Compute

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

ROLE SUMMARY

As AI agents move into production, they need a foundation that keeps them running through failures, retries, and long waits. Temporal is that foundation, and building AI-native experiences on top of it is paramount to where we are headed. We're looking for a technical, AI-native Staff Product Designer to shape how developers build, run, and scale agents on Temporal, from the agent platform and harness down to the compute and workers that execute them.

You'll design with AI and for AI. You use AI as a core part of how you work, and you bring that fluency to the products developers use to run AI in production. You're comfortable going deep on how workers execute tasks, how compute scales, and what it costs, and you turn that depth into experiences that feel simple. This role owns a focused domain while spanning the full developer experience, well beyond our UI.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Design the experiences developers use to build, run, deploy, and observe agentic workloads on Temporal, across Agent Platform, Agent Harness, and Serverless Workers.
• Shape the compute experience end to end, from configuring and scaling workers to understanding usage and cost.
• Create future state prototypes with your design leadership that show where Temporal's agent and compute experiences are headed, giving Product and Engineering a concrete vision to align roadmaps around.
• Work across the surfaces where developers meet Temporal, including the Cloud UI, CLI, SDKs, and documentation.
• Design with AI as a daily practice, using it to explore, prototype, and test ideas faster, and bring that perspective into product decisions.
• Partner with PMs and Engineers from discovery through delivery to define problems, validate direction, and ship at Temporal's pace and scale.
• Contribute to and extend Temporal's Design System for agentic use cases, keeping our expanding product surface consistent.
• Bring rigor to ambiguous, technical problem spaces, translating infrastructure complexity into interfaces that feel simple and clear.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

• 8+ years of Product Design experience, including senior or staff-level ownership of complex, technical products, with a track record of influencing product direction through strong execution.
• A solid understanding of compute and infrastructure concepts such as workers, scaling, queues, and resource usage, and the ability to discuss them credibly with engineers.
• A portfolio that shows systems thinking and 0→1 work in developer tools, B2B or infrastructure products, dashboards, or similarly dense, data-heavy interfaces.
• Experience designing AI-powered products or agent experiences.
• Fluency with AI tools like Claude or Codex in your own design workflow, along with comfort in GitHub and terminal environments.
• Hands-on experience with Figma.
• Experience partnering directly with Engineering on technically constrained problems, ideally in developer tools, cloud infrastructure, or platform products.
• Experience instrumenting and analyzing product usage to inform design decisions.
• A bias for building. You prototype quickly, often in code or with AI, and you move through build, ship, learn, and iterate cycles in days rather than weeks.

NICE TO HAVE

• Working knowledge of distributed systems, workflow orchestration, or durable execution concepts.
• Experience with serverless platforms, container orchestration, or cloud compute products.
• Familiarity with agentic AI patterns and the challenges of running agents in production.
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and comfort reading code.

Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.

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