Senior Staff Product Manager, AI

2 Months ago • All levels • Product Management • $240,000 PA - $290,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As the Senior Staff Product Manager, AI, you will be responsible for the product strategy and execution for Temporal in the AI space. You will develop the roadmap for the AI space, drive go-to-market strategies, and identify platform gaps and market opportunities. You will also provide execution strategies to solve distributed systems challenges for AI customers, partnering with engineering teams. You will empower AI customers to build agentic apps on Temporal, and work closely with customers to understand their specific challenges and design solutions.
Must have:
  • Thrive in building products from scratch.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems.
  • In-depth knowledge of the AI landscape.
  • Experience with SDK design.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Demonstrated success in strategic thinking and prioritization.
Perks:
  • Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
  • 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
  • AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance
  • Empower 401K Plan
  • Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
  • $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
  • $500 / Year Professional Memberships
  • $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
  • Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness

Job Details

Who We Are
 
Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. Our amazing user community provides us with real-time feedback and contributions to improve the developer experience everywhere.
 
Backed by top VC firms, we have built a team of professionals from various successful start-ups and well-known technology companies. Together, we collaborate cross-functionally, engage with and support our users to improve the developer experience, deliver world-class open-source software, and enhance our commercial SaaS platform.
 
Temporal is growing and working towards building the best community. We are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for helping developer communities, open-source software, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!

Summary

Temporal already sits at the core of many AI workloads. As the Senior Staff Product Manager, AI, you will be responsible for the product strategy and execution for Temporal in the AI space. This role requires deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and a strong understanding of AI and distributed systems to identify and address the needs of AI-focused customers. You will work cross-functionally with engineering, design, marketing, field teams, and customer success teams to deliver features and capabilities that empower AI customers to thrive on the Temporal platform.

Responsibilities

Shape the AI Vertical Strategy:

  • 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.

Identify Platform Gaps and Market Opportunities:

  • 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 Temporal’s offerings are best-in-class for AI customer needs.
  • Identify areas for partnership and develop partnerships strategy.

Drive Execution in AI-Focused Distributed Systems:

  • Provide durable execution strategies to solve distributed systems challenges for AI customers, leveraging Temporal’s core strengths.
  • Partner with engineering teams to address scalability, reliability, and latency issues specific to AI use cases.

Empower AI Customers to Build Agentic Apps on Temporal:

  • 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.

Requirements

Product Leadership in Greenfield Initiatives:

  • Thrive in building products from scratch and navigating undefined spaces with ambiguity.
  • Demonstrated success in defining and executing strategies for new verticals or markets.

Technical Expertise in Distributed Systems:

  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, workflow orchestration, and the challenges involved in scaling complex systems.
  • Experience working with Temporal or similar orchestration frameworks is a strong plus.

AI Industry Expertise:

  • 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.

Hands on Experience with SDK Design:

  • 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.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

  • 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.

Strategic Thinking and Prioritization:

  • Demonstrated success in balancing long-term strategic goals with short-term execution priorities.
  • Analytical mindset to evaluate trade-offs and make data-driven decisions.

Compensation

  • The estimated pay range for this role is $240,000 - $290,000.
  • Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process.
 
Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded. 
 
U.S. 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!
International Benefits
  • 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.
Additional Perks 
  • $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
Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.
 
Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.
 
We are not working with external recruitment agencies, thanks.

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