Staff Product Manager, Core Primitives

Temporal; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Staff Product Manager, Core Primitives, to own the strategy and roadmap for a focused Core Primitives charter. The role defines developer experience, coordinates across server, APIs, and SDKs, and partners with engineering to deliver easier modeling of long-running work and resilient production systems.

You'll translate signals into platform bets, ship core behavior improvements, and define success metrics before major investments, ensuring clear boundaries for

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience in platform or developer-focused products.
• Experience turning ambiguous technical domains into clear strategy, roadmap, and success metrics.
• Strong fluency with distributed systems, APIs/SDKs, and developer tooling.
• Ability to reason about API semantics, failure modes, state management, and cost tradeoffs.
• High standards for developer experience across docs, guides, and onboarding.
• Track record shipping technical products with engineering and measuring adoption.
• Ability to translate workload patterns (incl. AI agents) into primitives, APIs, and integrations.
• Balancing open-source UX with Cloud and enterprise production needs.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for a focused Core Primitives charter.
• Translate signals into platform bets and determine when to improve primitives or APIs.
• Collaborate with engineering to ship core behavior improvements across server, SDKs, and APIs.
• Define developer experience goals and success metrics before investments and iterate with users.
• Set clear product boundaries and success criteria for usage and extensions.
• Shape external narrative through positioning, docs, examples, and partner teams.
• Ship improvements with migration guidance and adoption support.

Skills

Platform product management

Distributed systems

APIs & SDKs

Developer experience

Strategy & roadmaps

Cross-functional leadership

Adoption measurement

AI workloads

Job description

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Staff Product Manager, Core Primitives, to own the strategy and roadmap for a focused Core Primitives charter. The role defines developer experience, coordinates across server, APIs, and SDKs, and partners with engineering to deliver easier modeling of long-running work and resilient production systems.

You'll translate signals into platform bets, ship core behavior improvements, and define success metrics before major investments, ensuring clear boundaries for