Director of Product Marketing - Core Cloud & SDKs

Temporal; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal is seeking a senior product marketing leader to drive product-facing marketing across Cloud, OSS, and AI. You will partner with Engineering, Product, and Sales to shape narratives, launches, and adoption programs, while directly guiding a team of Product Marketing Engineers.

You will own portfolio positioning, lead customer interviews, and set priorities across the portfolio, balancing roadmap influence with market impact.

Qualifications

• Significant product marketing experience with developer tools, cloud infrastructure, open-source software, or deeply technical products.
• Experience leading and developing senior individual contributors while remaining hands-on with strategy, writing, and execution.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with Engineering and translate technical work into positioning, launches, and adoption programs.
• Fluency to discuss APIs, SDKs, distributed systems, reliability, performance, security, and cloud architecture with senior engineers.
• Excellent positioning and writing skills for developers, architects, and executives.
• Good prioritization skills to focus the organization on major market moments over feature announcements.
• Experience working with a large global sales organization and producing high-quality assets.

Responsibilities

• Build direct, durable relationships with engineering leaders and engineers across Temporal.
• Maintain a clear view of the Product and Engineering roadmap and decide what requires research, positioning, proof, adoption guidance, or a launch.
• Lead Temporal's launch process, including tiering, calendar, audience, narratives, and cross-functional ownership.
• Own product and portfolio positioning across Temporal's OSS, Cloud, core primitives, SDKs, and AI capabilities.
• Explain customer value of reliability, scalability, performance, availability, security, capacity, migration, and developer tooling.
• Write and edit positioning and messaging for top products and launches; set quality bar for narratives.
• Capture customer interviews and evidence to support launches, adoption programs, and product feedback.
• Hire, develop, and direct Product Marketing Engineers to investigate technical questions and produce proof and guidance.
• Own ecosystem strategy, partner categories, integrations, and coordinated launches with stakeholders.
• Meet customers regularly (3–4 per month) and support strategic sales deals.
• Decide launch scope and timing to balance full company motion and targeted technical communications.

Skills

Product marketing leadership

Strategic writing

Technical fluency

Engineering collaboration

Open-source / cloud experience

Sales enablement with global teams

Job description

Temporal is seeking a senior product marketing leader to drive product-facing marketing across Cloud, OSS, and AI. You will partner with Engineering, Product, and Sales to shape narratives, launches, and adoption programs, while directly guiding a team of Product Marketing Engineers.

You will own portfolio positioning, lead customer interviews, and set priorities across the portfolio, balancing roadmap influence with market impact.