Staff Product Manager, Observability
Job Summary
Job Description
Temporal is seeking a Staff Product Manager for Observability to lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution of observability, visibility, and analytics capabilities for Temporal Cloud. This role involves close collaboration with engineering, design, go-to-market teams, and customers to provide insights for monitoring, troubleshooting, optimization, and growth. The primary goal is to deliver impactful observability features and drive revenue through telemetry. Responsibilities include developing a comprehensive observability roadmap across Temporal Cloud and OSS offerings, defining and launching new product lines, enhancing audit logging for compliance, creating a seamless workflow history export, and aligning observability goals with the company strategy.
Must have:
- Deep expertise with observability platforms
- Familiarity with distributed systems telemetry
- Understanding of observability operational challenges
- Proven track record delivering developer tools
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Customer-obsessed product management style
Good to have:
- Experience with monitoring systems and analytics products
- Knowledge of metrics visualization and trace data
- Understanding of cost considerations in observability
- Experience influencing engineering and go-to-market teams
Perks:
- Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
- 100% Premium Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
- AD&D, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability, and Life Insurance
- Empower 401K Plan
- Learning & Development Support
- Lifestyle Spending Account
- In-Home Office Setup
- Professional Memberships
- Work From Home Meals
- Internet Stipend
- Calm App Subscription
5 skills required
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
As a Staff Product Manager, Observability, you will own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for Temporal Cloud’s observability, visibility, and analytics capabilities. You’ll work closely with engineering, design, go-to-market, and customers to deliver actionable insights that help customers monitor, troubleshoot, optimize, and grow their use of Temporal. Success in this role means delivering powerful new observability features and creating new revenue opportunities by turning telemetry into value.
What You’ll Do
- Develop a holistic observability roadmap across all of Temporal’s Cloud and OSS offerings—spanning accounts, namespaces, Nexus, workflows, task queues, and workers.
- Drive the definition, validation, and launch of new observability-based product lines and features that contribute directly to revenue growth.
- Enhance audit logging capabilities to meet enterprise compliance requirements and improve transparency for customers.
- Create a seamless workflow history export experience that enables customers to easily analyze and archive data at scale.
- Partner closely with engineering, design, sales, and support to deliver a delightful product experience and align observability goals with Temporal’s company strategy.
- Gather customer feedback and telemetry data to inform product decisions and measure success.
What You Bring
- Deep expertise with observability platforms, monitoring systems, and analytics products at significant scale.
- Familiarity with distributed systems telemetry, logging, metrics visualization, and trace data.
- Understanding of operational challenges, cost considerations, and compliance requirements in observability.
- Proven track record of delivering developer- and operator-focused tools that customers love.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills; able to influence engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to drive outcomes.
- Bias for action and an analytical, customer-obsessed product management style.
Compensation
- The estimated pay range for this role is $190,000 - $250,000.
- 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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