Remote Staff Product Designer — Nexus Cross‑Namespace UX

Temporal Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal is seeking a Staff Product Designer to shape Nexus experiences across Temporal Cloud and developer workflows. You will translate complex distributed-system concepts into clear UX, collaborate with product and engineering, and design cohesive surfaces including APIs and tools used by developers and operators.

The role emphasizes high-fidelity prototypes, reusable design patterns, accessibility, and scalable design-system contributions, with remote-first collaboration across the US/Canada.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading product design for complex technical products and developer tools.
• Strong interaction and visual design skills with a portfolio of complex workflows.
• Ability to translate complex distributed system concepts into approachable UX.
• Experience partnering with Product and Engineering from discovery to implementation.
• Attention to accessibility, scalability, and clear design rationale.
• Remote-first availability in the United States or Canada with occasional in-person sessions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design direction for Nexus experiences, from early problem framing through detailed interaction design, validation, and delivery.
• Turn complex concepts such as cross-namespace connectivity, workflow communication, configuration, and operational visibility into clear, intuitive user experiences.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to define user problems, explore solutions, clarify requirements, and make thoughtful tradeoffs across usability, reliability, scalability, and technical constraints.
• Design cohesive experiences across Temporal Cloud interfaces, developer-facing workflows, APIs, and other surfaces that help users understand and adopt Nexus.
• Create high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and interaction models that communicate behavior across happy paths, edge cases, errors, permissions, and recovery scenarios.
• Establish reusable patterns and contribute to design-system evolution so Nexus experiences feel consistent, accessible, and scalable across Temporal products.
• Represent user needs in roadmap and architecture discussions, using research, usability testing, customer feedback, and product data to guide decisions.
• Raise the quality of product design across the organization through critique, mentorship, and clear design rationale.

Skills

Product design leadership

UX design

Information architecture

Prototype development

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Figma

Figjam

Design systems

Job description

Temporal is seeking a Staff Product Designer to shape Nexus experiences across Temporal Cloud and developer workflows. You will translate complex distributed-system concepts into clear UX, collaborate with product and engineering, and design cohesive surfaces including APIs and tools used by developers and operators.

The role emphasizes high-fidelity prototypes, reusable design patterns, accessibility, and scalable design-system contributions, with remote-first collaboration across the US/Canada.