Summary

Join our team as a Staff Product Manager for Agent Platform, where you'll define what it means to build and run AI agents on the most durable execution platform in the industry. In this role, you'll own the end-to-end product experience for developers building agents on Temporal.

This is a high-leverage, strategic role. Agents are Temporal's fastest-growing use case, and you'll shape how we serve this market. You'll take vague, ambitious questions - "how do we help teams at companies like Cursor, Lovable, and Stripe build more capable agents, faster?" - and turn them into concrete product bets, roadmap investments, and shipped experiences that developers love.

What You'll Do

• Own the product experience for developers building and running AI agents on Temporal
• Shape the strategy for internal agent platforms - companies standing up centralized teams to empower their orgs to build agents on Temporal
• Drive the multi-agent orchestration roadmap: agent-calls-agent patterns, handoff protocols, agent teams
• Establish success metrics and developer feedback loops for agent platform adoption and satisfaction
• Sequence the roadmap and frame investments across multiple work streams
• Partner closely with AI engineering
• Work cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, and Developer Relations to ensure developers succeed end-to-end

What You'll Bring

• 8+ years of product management experience
• Deep AI and agent domain knowledge - you're building with frontier models daily and have an opinionated view of where the industry is headed
• Developer empathy - deep understanding of how developers discover, adopt, and debug software
• Platform product thinking - experience designing APIs, primitives, or developer platforms, not just end-user features
• Experience shipping developer tools
• Distributed systems literacy - able to reason fluently about state, execution, fault tolerance, and observability with engineering partners
• Staff-level ownership - you take a vague strategic question and turn it into concrete product bets without heavy direction
• Comfort shaping strategy in a fast-moving, ambiguous domain

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with agent architectures - orchestration, tool use, memory, branching
• Temporal or workflow engine experience
• Open-source community experience

Compensation

About the role

Temporal is the durable execution platform that lets developers write code that survives any failure. Thousands of companies run mission-critical applications on Temporal — from payment processing to AI agent orchestration.

We're hiring a Staff Product Manager to own the developer lifecycle: the tools and experiences developers use to adopt Temporal, verify their code, and ship with confidence. You'll own the CLI, testing framework, deploy safety tooling, local development environment, and getting-started experience.

This is a high-ambiguity role. You'll define Temporal's testing strategy (do we own test servers or move to testcontainers?), deploy safety approach (replay-based, static analysis, or linting - and where does it run?), and the developer tooling vision that ties it all together. Several of these are open product questions with no obvious answer.

What you'll do

• Define and drive the strategy for developer tooling across Temporal's platform - not just ship features, but make opinionated bets on how developers should test, debug, and deploy durable applications
• Own the testing story end-to-end: make the strategic call on test infrastructure direction, define canonical patterns, and drive toward tests that developers actually trust
• Own the deploy safety story: determine the right approach for pre-deploy compatibility checking and drive it from concept to shipped product
• Unify the CLI into one coherent tool - for humans and AI agents - and define what the CLI becomes as AI-assisted development accelerates
• Collapse the getting-started experience so new developers reach a working project in minutes with production-realistic patterns
• Influence cross-SDK decisions - the tools you own work across Go, Java, TypeScript, Python, and .NET. You'll drive consistency without blocking SDK teams
• Define the developer-to-operator handoff - where "I'm shipping" ends and "it's being operated" begins
• Partner directly with engineering leadership to shape team priorities and technical direction
• Represent the developer tooling perspective in product-staff reviews and company-level planning

What you'll own

• Testing & verification - strategic direction for how Temporal code gets tested, canonical patterns, CI integration
• Deploy safety - the approach for pre-deploy compatibility checking and determinism detection
• Code evolution - how developers version, migrate, and evolve long-running applications over time
• CLI - the primary developer interface to Temporal, for humans and AI agents
• Getting started - first-run experience, scaffolding, templates that reflect real-world patterns
• Local development - dev server, project setup, and the path from zero to working project

What we're looking for

• 8+ years of product management experience, with significant time on developer tools, SDKs, CLIs, or developer infrastructure
• You've defined and driven a tooling strategy, not just executed one - you made opinionated bets about how developers should work and shipped them
• You've made build-vs-buy or keep-vs-deprecate decisions on developer-facing infrastructure and can articulate the tradeoffs years later
• You can hold a coherent vision across multiple tools that ship on different timelines to different language ecosystems
• You're comfortable operating in ambiguity - several of the biggest questions in this role don't have obvious answers yet
• You write clearly, decide quickly, and change your mind when the evidence says to
• You've partnered with engineering leadership, not just engineering teams - you influence technical direction, not just product requirements
• You understand the difference between developer tooling and production operations, and you set that boundary clearly

Nice to have

• You've personally built or contributed to a CLI, testing framework, CI pipeline, or developer tool
• Experience with distributed systems, workflow engines, or durable execution concepts
• You've worked on cross-language or cross-platform developer tools
• Familiarity with the competitive landscape: Restate, Inngest, Durable Objects, Step Functions

Compensation

About the role

Temporal is the durable execution platform that lets developers write code that survives any failure. Thousands of companies run mission-critical applications on Temporal - from payment processing to AI agent orchestration.

We're hiring a Staff Product Manager to own the core primitives: the building blocks developers use to express durable patterns. You'll own Workflows, Activities, Timers, Signals & Updates, Child Workflows, Schedules, Batch, and Nexus connectivity. Over time, scope expands to include Solutions implementation.

Jessica (portfolio lead) provides portfolio direction. You frame problems and generate strategy for your area - deciding what expands, what stays maintenance-mode, and how primitives connect into a coherent platform story.

What you'll do

• Generate the area strategy that connects primitives, connectivity, and composition into a coherent thesis - what expands, why, and how investments compound
• Frame the problem space and make bets - which primitives need investment, which are mature, and where the next leverage point is
• Drive 1-pagers and PRDs for primitive improvements and new capabilities
• Own cross-SDK delivery for each primitive - coordinate with SDK teams to ensure consistent behavior across Go, Java, TypeScript, Python, and .NET
• Run customer validation - identify who's hitting primitive gaps, gather evidence, and use it to prioritize
• Drive primitive correctness - defaults, error messages, silent failures, cancellation, timeouts
• Act as domain lead for the primitives area; could take on Senior PMs as the area matures
• Partner with engineering leadership to shape technical direction, not just product requirements
• Represent the primitives perspective in product-staff reviews and company-level planning

What you'll own

• Primitives: Workflows, Activities (standalone, local), Timers, Signals & Updates, Child Workflows, Schedules, Batch (new), Nexus
• Cross-cutting: Primitive defaults & error handling, composition patterns, Solutions implementation (over time)

What we're looking for

• 8+ years of product management experience, with significant time on platform, infrastructure, or developer-facing products
• Track record of generating area-level strategy - framing the problem space, making bets, connecting investments into a thesis. Strong execution on individual features isn't sufficient signal for this role
• You've defined what a platform area becomes, not just shipped what was on the roadmap
• You can hold a coherent vision across multiple primitives that ship on different timelines to different language ecosystems
• You've driven complex cross-team delivery - shipping features across multiple SDKs or client libraries, coordinating without direct authority
• You can go deep on technical behavior - you understand the difference between a timeout and a cancellation, and why it matters for the developer
• You're rigorous about customer evidence - you don't prioritize based on intuition when data exists
• You've partnered with engineering leadership, not just engineering teams - you influence technical direction, not just product requirements

Nice to have

• Experience with workflow engines, orchestration platforms, or durable execution
• You've worked on cross-language or cross-platform products
• Familiarity with the competitive landscape: Restate, Inngest, Durable Objects, Step Functions
• You've personally built or contributed to distributed systems"

Compensation