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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.

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.

Design, build, test, document, and operate core backend features for highly scalable, multi-tenant distributed services. The role focuses on concurrency, reliability, latency, scale, multi-region failover, availability, production observability, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks. Staff Engineers also contribute to enterprise on-premise and cloud offerings, improve team velocity, and provide technical leadership across backend systems.

Leads and scales Temporal’s global technical support organization for complex developer and infrastructure issues. Establishes support operations, SLAs, triage, escalation, incident response, RCA, quality, staffing, and performance systems. Develops technical talent, reduces avoidable Engineering escalations, improves customer communications, and partners cross-functionally to convert support insights into product and documentation improvements. Represents Temporal in strategic escalations, critical incidents, enterprise support discussions, and executive readouts.

Own customer production readiness and activation for Temporal platforms, driving initial workflows into stable, scalable production. Establish reliability, observability, alerting, governance, and operational standards; resolve complex technical issues; manage technical risks, migrations, and architectural debt. Lead KPI-driven success plans, cross-functional delivery, technical reviews, training, and customer enablement while supporting adoption, renewals, and growth.

Owns month-end close, corporate reporting, variance and flux analysis, board materials, and consolidated three-statement financial modeling. Maintains cash forecasts, long-range plans, workforce reporting, and headcount forecasts. Supports Pigment planning-platform administration, improves finance processes and data integrity, and delivers ad hoc analysis for finance leadership. Partners cross-functionally in a high-growth, pre-IPO technology environment.

Own and expand Temporal’s strategic relationship with a Fortune 15 financial services customer. Drive adoption across lines of business, develop multi-year account strategies, engage technical and executive stakeholders, and convert successful production deployments into expanded consumption. Partner with solutions architecture, customer success, developer success, and product teams to ensure use cases reach production and deliver measurable outcomes. Navigate complex enterprise decision-making while consistently achieving growth goals.