Staff Product Manager, Developer Lifecycle & Tooling

Temporal Technologies is hiring a Staff Product Manager to lead the strategy and roadmap for its developer lifecycle and tooling. The role focuses on improving onboarding, local development, testing, replay, code evolution, deploy safety, and CLI workflows while partnering with engineering, SDK, Developer Relations, Marketing, and field teams.

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