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As a Staff Product Manager, you will own the vision and roadmap for developing robust workflow systems, defining primitives and APIs, and ensuring platform reliability and developer experience at scale.
About Us
Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer’s toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen.
Our values guide us —they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We’re curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.
Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
Summary
As the Staff Product Manager for the Workflow Platform, you will own the vision and roadmap for how developers build and run workflows—spanning long-running processes, messaging, synchronous interactions, and platform-level reliability.
You’ll define the primitives, APIs, and developer experience that make Temporal the best platform for everything from AI agents to low-latency apps to large-scale automation.
What You’ll Own
- Long-running & Entity Workflows - Define how developers build durable, stateful, human-in-the-loop workflows. Make Temporal the easiest and most robust platform for agents, campaigns, approvals, and multi-step business processes.
- Messaging & Interactivity - Own signals, updates, and queries. Ensure developers can build interactive, event-driven systems with predictable semantics and great UX.
- Low-latency, Synchronous Actions - Partner with engineering to deliver fast, responsive workflows that support real-time user interactions without compromising durability.
- Interoperability & Composability - Drive coherence across Temporal’s primitives so workflows, activities, and messaging feel like parts of one operating system for distributed apps.
- Reliability as a Core Experience - Champion “workflows don’t fail.” Shape retry behavior, recovery tools, changelists, and operational controls that make durable execution intuitive.
- Cost & Efficiency - Steer strategy for scalable, predictable workload economics, including batching, resource usage, and scheduling efficiency.
- Global Scheduling & Batch - Define Temporal’s scheduling model for orchestrating millions of workflows and large collections at scale.
What You’ll Do
- Set product vision and roadmap for Temporal’s core workflow platform
- Translate customer needs into clear APIs, semantics, and developer experiences
- Work closely with engineering on performance, reliability, and cost tradeoffs
- Lead discovery with developers building agents, workflow-driven systems, and interactive apps
- Drive alignment across SDK, cloud, and runtime teams
- Represent the product to customers and internal stakeholders
What Success Looks Like
- Developers immediately understand when and how to use workflows, signals, updates, and synchronous operations
- Temporal becomes the default platform for long-running, interactive, and durable applications
- Workflows feel resilient, predictable, and easy to reason about
- The platform scales efficiently with strong cost controls and a clear scheduling model
- The estimated pay range for this role is $185,000 - $260,000.
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process.
Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded.
U.S. Benefits
- Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
- 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
- AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
- Empower 401K Plan
- Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
International Benefits
Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com. Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
Travel
Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
Additional Perks
- $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
- $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning
- $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
- $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
- $500 / Year Professional Memberships
- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.
Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.
We are not working with external recruitment agencies, thanks.
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