Senior Staff Product Manager, AI

Temporal
Summary
Join Temporal as a Senior Staff Product Manager, AI, and lead the product strategy and execution for Temporal's AI initiatives. Develop and own the AI roadmap, aligning it with company goals and customer priorities. Drive go-to-market strategies and support marketing and sales efforts targeting AI-specific use cases. Identify and address platform gaps relevant to AI customers, prioritizing features based on value and cost. Conduct competitive analyses to ensure Temporal's offerings are best-in-class. Develop and execute strategies to solve distributed systems challenges for AI customers. Partner with engineering to address scalability, reliability, and latency issues. Empower AI customers to build agentic apps on Temporal by identifying and developing necessary features and working closely with customers. This role requires deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and a strong understanding of AI and distributed systems.
Requirements
- Thrive in building products from scratch and navigating undefined spaces with ambiguity
- Demonstrated success in defining and executing strategies for new verticals or markets
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, workflow orchestration, and the challenges involved in scaling complex systems
- In-depth knowledge of the AI landscape, particularly around Large Language Models (LLMs), intelligent agents, and associated tools
- Familiarity with the unique challenges and needs of AI-driven organizations
- Familiarity with agentic apps and frameworks
- Ability to engage deeply with customers to uncover pain points, identify opportunities, and deliver impactful SDK constructs and idioms
- Proficient in at least one programming language and familiar with multiple
- Strong ability to work collaboratively across engineering, design, marketing, and other teams
- Excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Demonstrated success in balancing long-term strategic goals with short-term execution priorities
- Analytical mindset to evaluate trade-offs and make data-driven decisions
Responsibilities
- Develop and own the roadmap for the AI space, aligning it with company goals and customer priorities
- Drive go-to-market strategies and support marketing and sales efforts to target AI-specific use cases
- Discover and address gaps in the Temporal platform relevant to AI customers
- Sequence features and map them to different market segments, prioritizing based on value and cost of implementation
- Conduct competitive analyses to ensure Temporalโs offerings are best-in-class for AI customer needs
- Identify areas for partnership and develop partnerships strategy
- Provide durable execution strategies to solve distributed systems challenges for AI customers, leveraging Temporalโs core strengths
- Partner with engineering teams to address scalability, reliability, and latency issues specific to AI use cases
- Identify and develop the features needed to enable AI customers to write and deploy intelligent agents on Temporal
- Work closely with customers to understand their specific challenges and design solutions that meet their needs
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working with Temporal or similar orchestration frameworks is a strong plus
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
- 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
- AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
- Empower 401K Plan
- Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com
- Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness
- $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
- $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning
- $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
- $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
- $500 / Year Professional Memberships
- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
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