Senior Product Marketing Engineer: Competitive Intelligence

Temporal; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Senior Staff Product Marketing Engineer to lead competitive benchmarking, positioning, and messaging. You’ll combine win-loss analysis, field evidence, pricing research, and reproducible benchmarks to improve positioning and guide product and GTM decisions.

This company-wide role lets you decide what to track, how findings are shared with the field, and which issues require executive input.

Qualifications

• Record of building or substantially improving a competitive intelligence program for a technical product.
• Hands-on knowledge of distributed systems, cloud platforms, application architecture, and production software tradeoffs.
• Ability to deploy and evaluate unfamiliar technology, read source code and docs, build a test harness, and troubleshoot results.
• Proficiency in Go, Java, TypeScript, Python, C#, or PHP, plus comfort with containers, cloud environments, and automation tools.
• Experience with performance or reliability testing and understanding latency, throughput, CPU, memory, storage, network, failure modes, and cost.
• Clear writing, executive briefing, and field guidance abilities.
• Independent execution across multiple workstreams; adapt quickly to changing priorities.
• Written technical white papers and presentations for conferences.

Responsibilities

• Co-build Temporal’s competitive intelligence program focusing on benchmarking and sales support.
• Install, configure, and evaluate competing products, understanding architecture, UX, operations, pricing, and packaging.
• Design and run fair, reproducible benchmarks and document methods, environment, results, and limitations.
• Translate evidence into positioning, battlecards, guides, demos, and internal/external content.
• Triage recurring technical questions from Sales and Solutions Architecture; define reusable field answers.
• Respond quickly to competitor launches and pricing changes; contribute to guidance the field can reuse.
• Build relationships across Sales, Solutions Architecture, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering; gather intelligence.
• Provide deal support and turn insights into thought leadership content.
• Publish monthly updates and lead quarterly exec reviews on changes and actions.
• Set a high evidence standard; state what is known, how known, and where evidence is incomplete.
• Partner with Enablement to turn intelligence into training and field guidance; measure impact.
• Take on adjacent technical work when priorities shift.
• Write technical white papers and deliver them at conferences.

Skills

Competitive intelligence

Product marketing

Strategic messaging

Win-loss analysis

Benchmarking

Evidence-based storytelling

Distributed systems knowledge

Go

Java

TypeScript

Python

C#

PHP

Executive communication

Public speaking

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Senior Staff Product Marketing Engineer to lead competitive benchmarking, positioning, and messaging. You’ll combine win-loss analysis, field evidence, pricing research, and reproducible benchmarks to improve positioning and guide product and GTM decisions.

This company-wide role lets you decide what to track, how findings are shared with the field, and which issues require executive input.