Staff Product Manager, Core Primitives Platform

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Staff Product Manager, Core Primitives, to own strategy and roadmap for a focused charter. This role focuses on delivering capabilities and developer experience to model long-running work, coordinate across systems, handle failure, and operate production workloads.

You will partner with engineering and SDK leads to align strategy across server, APIs, and cloud experiences, aiming for a clear strategy and shipped improvements in the first year.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience in platform, infrastructure, developer tools, or technical products.
• Experience turning ambiguous technical domains into clear strategy, roadmaps, success measures, and shipped outcomes.
• Strong fluency in distributed systems, workflow/orchestration, APIs/SDKs, or comparable platform abstractions.
• Ability to reason about API semantics, failure modes, state management, reliability, scalability, and cost tradeoffs.
• High standards for developer experience across APIs, SDKs, documentation, onboarding, and production workflows.
• Track record shipping technical products with engineering, then measuring adoption and iterating.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for a focused Core Primitives charter.
• Translate signals into platform bets and decide when to improve primitives or introduce new abstractions.
• Partner with engineering to ship core behavior across server, SDKs, and APIs.
• Define developer experience goals and success metrics before major investments and iterate with technical users.
• Set clear boundaries for Core Primitives usage and extension by developers and internal teams.
• Shape external storytelling with positioning, launch narratives, documentation, and developer relations collaboration.
• Ship improvements with documentation, examples, migration guidance, and launch support.

Skills

Product management

Platform/infrastructure experience

Developer tools

APIs/SDKs

Distributed systems

Technical strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

APIs

SDKs

Job description

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Staff Product Manager, Core Primitives, to own strategy and roadmap for a focused charter. This role focuses on delivering capabilities and developer experience to model long-running work, coordinate across systems, handle failure, and operate production workloads.

You will partner with engineering and SDK leads to align strategy across server, APIs, and cloud experiences, aiming for a clear strategy and shipped improvements in the first year.