Staff Product Manager, Developer Lifecycle & Tooling

Temporal Technologies is an open-source programming model company on a mission to enhance developers' experiences and reliability. They are seeking a Staff Product Manager to own the strategy and roadmap for the developer lifecycle, focusing on onboarding, local development, testing, and deployment safety.

Responsibilities:

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for Temporal’s developer lifecycle and tooling charter
• Define developer experience goals for onboarding, local development, testing, replay, code evolution, deploy safety, and CLI workflows, then measure progress against them
• Translate customer, field, support, and open-source community signals into tooling bets that make Temporal easier to start with, test, debug, evolve, and deploy
• Partner deeply with engineering and SDK teams to ship tooling across the CLI, local development environment, testing infrastructure, replay workflows, and deploy safety tools
• Make opinionated product calls about where Temporal should provide built-in tooling, where we should integrate with existing developer workflows, and where documentation, templates, or examples are the right answer
• Shape a coherent cross-SDK experience across Go, Java, TypeScript, Python, .NET, and other supported languages without blocking language-specific ergonomics
• Define the external story for Temporal’s developer lifecycle through positioning, documentation, examples, launch narratives, and close partnership with Developer Relations, Marketing, and field teams
• Ship improvements with the templates, migration guidance, examples, and adoption support developers need to use them successfully

Requirements:

• 8+ years of product management experience, with significant time on developer tools, SDKs, CLIs, testing infrastructure, CI/CD, or developer platforms
• Experience turning ambiguous developer workflow problems into clear strategy, roadmap, success measures, and shipped outcomes
• Strong technical fluency in software delivery workflows, testing, CI/CD, SDKs, CLIs, local development, or distributed systems
• High standards for developer experience across CLIs, SDKs, APIs, documentation, examples, onboarding paths, and production workflows
• Ability to translate emerging developer workflows, including AI-assisted coding and agentic tools, into requirements for CLIs, testing, deploy safety, and documentation
• Ability to balance open-source developer experience, Temporal Cloud adoption, and enterprise production needs
• Strong product storytelling for technical audiences, with the ability to explain not just what changed, but how developers should use it and why it matters
• Hands-on experience building or contributing to a CLI, testing framework, CI/CD system, SDK, or developer tool
• Experience with distributed systems, workflow engines, durable execution, or event-driven platforms
• Experience building developer tools across multiple programming languages, SDKs, or runtime environments
• Familiarity with adjacent developer platforms, orchestration tools, CI/CD systems, or modern developer automation