Staff Product Designer — AI-Driven Dev Tools (Remote)

Digitailor; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal is seeking a Staff Product Designer to shape the user experience for Nexus, Temporal's cross-namespace connectivity features. You will translate distributed-system concepts into clear, approachable interfaces for developers and operators.

You'll lead end-to-end design, partner with Product and Engineering, contribute to design-system evolution, and help define usability, reliability, and scalability across Temporal Cloud surfaces and APIs.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading product design for complex technical products, developer tools, infrastructure, SaaS, or workflow-oriented applications.
• Strong interaction and visual design skills, with a portfolio showing thoughtful information architecture, complex workflows, prototypes, and shipped product experiences.
• Ability to make sophisticated technical concepts understandable without oversimplifying the underlying user needs or system behavior.
• Experience partnering closely with Product and Engineering on ambiguous, cross-functional problems from discovery through implementation.
• Strong systems thinking and attention to detail across states, permissions, configuration, failure modes, accessibility, and operational context.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to influence product direction through customer insight, design rationale, and collaborative decision-making.
• Remote-first availability in the United States or Canada, with the ability to participate in occasional in-person immersion sessions and team offsites.
• This role has no on-call requirement.

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

Systems thinking

UI/UX design

Cross-functional collaboration

Prototyping

Tools

Figma

InVision

Job description

Temporal is seeking a Staff Product Designer to shape the user experience for Nexus, Temporal's cross-namespace connectivity features. You will translate distributed-system concepts into clear, approachable interfaces for developers and operators.

You'll lead end-to-end design, partner with Product and Engineering, contribute to design-system evolution, and help define usability, reliability, and scalability across Temporal Cloud surfaces and APIs.