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Own technical product marketing for Temporal’s Core, SDKs, APIs, Nexus, and developer experience. Build working demos, sample applications, tutorials, reference implementations, launch content, and technical guidance. Partner with engineering, product, documentation, developer relations, sales, solutions architecture, and customers to identify adoption barriers, shape positioning, support launches, answer technical questions, and recommend product improvements based on hands-on developer testing and customer evidence.

Develop and improve Temporal Proxy, an extensible open-source solution for Temporal Cloud and customers. Implement request handling, configuration, authentication and authorization integrations, encryption hooks, observability, testing, documentation, and production debugging. Collaborate with security, infrastructure, server, and engineering teams to deliver reliable proxy capabilities and improve developer experience.

Own Temporal Nexus strategy, roadmap, execution, customer discovery, adoption, and cross-functional enablement. Drive delivery of developer experience, operator controls, connector foundations, identity, rate limits, and encryption while shaping future capabilities such as the Connector Ecosystem, Service Hub, and Agentic Communication Fabric. Partner with engineering, customers, field teams, and GTM to prioritize work, define success metrics, launch effectively, and establish Nexus as a durable connectivity layer for distributed systems and AI infrastructure.

Own expansion opportunities across a portfolio of existing customers, increasing Temporal adoption and revenue. Develop account plans, engage technical and executive stakeholders, translate technical capabilities into business value, and manage complex, multi-threaded sales cycles. Build long-term customer relationships, identify growth signals, and collaborate with Solutions Architecture, Customer Success, Product, and Marketing. The role requires strong software sales performance, technical curiosity, value-based selling, discovery, negotiation, and cross-functional collaboration.

Serve as the primary customer-facing technical leader for major accounts in the Western U.S. Guide prospects and customers through technical evaluations, distributed-system architecture, prototypes, implementation, and production adoption. Partner with Account Executives on new business and expansion opportunities, develop account plans, assess technical risks, and advise on cloud, security, reliability, performance, and cost considerations. The role requires strong technical communication, architectural expertise, experience with a major cloud provider, and 25–50% travel.

Leads Temporal’s M&A strategy and builds a strategic seed investment program for companies developing on its platform. Responsibilities include sourcing and executing acquisitions and investments, conducting diligence, negotiating terms, developing financial models and valuations, aligning opportunities with product strategy, managing ecosystem relationships, and establishing governance and scalable processes. The role partners with Product, Engineering, executives, board members, investors, bankers, lawyers, and founders.

Build and operate foundational infrastructure for Temporal Cloud, focusing on high availability, disaster recovery, control-plane automation, database performance, deployment systems, and CI/CD. Design scalable multi-tenant SaaS systems, improve reliability and resilience, optimize PostgreSQL and related data platforms, and develop infrastructure tools, APIs, and operational automation for safer, faster releases.

Own Temporal’s AI ecosystem integrations and partnerships portfolio, including roadmap strategy, partner experiences, reference architectures, positioning, launches, enablement, and adoption. Engage customers and track the AI tooling market to prioritize investments. Collaborate with Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Solutions Architecture, DevRel, and external partners to launch integrations, establish KPIs, and drive ecosystem momentum.

Own the external communications and social presence of Temporal’s co-founders and CEO/CTO. Ghostwrite technical essays, posts, bylines, and executive messaging; prepare founders for keynotes, customer meetings, podcasts, and media engagements; and partner with Product Marketing and Media Relations. The role requires strong developer communications experience, technical fluency, independent judgment, and frequent travel for in-person collaboration.

Deliver production-ready Temporal implementations with customer and partner engineering teams. Design reliable workflow patterns, deploy and operate Temporal Server in cloud or self-hosted environments, establish scaling and observability standards, and resolve complex technical issues. Create runbooks, templates, documentation, workshops, and training to enable independent customer operations. Provide implementation feedback to product and engineering teams while reducing escalations.