Staff Product Manager, Agent Primitives

Role Summary We're at an inflection point. We started with core durable execution and are now evolving with the world as it transitions to AI. What it takes to get from where we are today to a world where Temporal underpins all software – including and especially agents – is going to be different. It will require unprecedented speed, iteration, market and customer focus, and invention. As an Agent Primitives PM, you’ll help the world makes its transition to AI on Temporal. Without any effort, the market has already identified Temporal as a good substrate for agent workloads. Now we need to make it great by going beyond workflow and activities, and building agent-specific primitives and patterns. You’ll identify the highest leverage areas for us to invest in new primitives, and work closely with the engineering team to get them to market. What You’ll Do Deeply understand problems faced by agent builders and identify opportunities where our products can make building agents faster, more intuitive, more reliable, and more powerful. Define and build what’s next for Temporal. Own strategy and roadmap for agent primitives. Turn ambiguous signals into clear product theses. Do we need a higher-level abstraction for the agent loop? How do we evolve our durability primitives to fit a new range of agent use cases that have difference constraints on latency, cost, and durability? Perform up-front discovery and translate customer, field, and open-source community signals into small tweaks, brand new abstractions, or platform bets. Help engineers and designers deeply understand user needs, empowering them to make great product decisions. Craft messaging around upcoming features that resonates with users. Enable sales and marketing teams to effectively communicate with and win customers. You’ll build new things with a massive tailwind behind you: a proven technology, a large and growing customer base, and a market moving toward problems Temporal is uniquely equipped to solve. The opportunity is to turn that momentum into what comes next—not simply scale what already works. You’ll be expected to move fast, work across boundaries, and do what it takes to make it happen. Who You Are You're ambitious. You want to win big. You don’t need someone else to set the pace. You get impatient when good ideas stay in slide decks, Slack, or meetings. You're an owner. You are accountable to results over the process. You’re less focused on your swim lane and more focused on making the company successful. You have exceptional product and operational judgement. You're resilient. Building at a high-growth company in 2026 is not for the faint of heart. You see the challenges and change as not just normal, but actually desirable. You want to grow, and help others grow. You self-reflect often. You give feedback, and you seek it out. You have shameless curiosity and a propensity to question things deeply. You prioritize the customer above all else. You want to understand our users' wo