AI-Native Staff Product Designer, AI + Compute

Temporal Technologies

19h • $153,600 - $252,000

About The Position

Temporal is seeking a technical, AI-native Staff Product Designer to shape how developers build, run, and scale AI agents on Temporal. The role spans agent platform and harness experiences through the compute and workers that execute workloads, with a focus on making complex infrastructure feel simple. The designer will own a focused domain while contributing across the broader developer experience, including product surfaces beyond the user interface.

The designer will use AI as part of their daily design practice and bring that perspective to products developers use to run AI in production. They will work closely with Product and Engineering from discovery through delivery, create prototypes that establish a future vision for Temporal's agent and compute experiences, and help extend the Design System for agentic use cases.

Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Temporal embraces and celebrates differences and diversity, and provides reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

Requirements

• 8+ years of Product Design experience, including senior- or staff-level ownership of complex, technical products and a record of influencing product direction through strong execution.
• Solid understanding of compute and infrastructure concepts such as workers, scaling, queues, and resource usage, with the ability to discuss them credibly with engineers.
• Portfolio demonstrating systems thinking and 0-to-1 work in developer tools, B2B or infrastructure products, dashboards, or similarly dense, data-heavy interfaces.
• Experience designing AI-powered products or agent experiences.
• Fluency with AI tools such as Claude or Codex in a design workflow, and comfort with GitHub and terminal environments.
• Hands-on experience with Figma.
• Experience partnering directly with Engineering on technically constrained problems, ideally in developer tools, cloud infrastructure, or platform products.
• Experience instrumenting and analyzing product usage to inform design decisions.
• A bias for building, with the ability to prototype quickly, often in code or with AI, and iterate through build, ship, learn, and improve cycles in days rather than weeks.

Nice To Haves

• Working knowledge of distributed systems, workflow orchestration, or durable execution concepts.
• Experience with serverless platforms, container orchestration, or cloud compute products.
• Familiarity with agentic AI patterns and the challenges of running agents in production.
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and comfort reading code.

Responsibilities

• Design experiences for developers to build, run, deploy, and observe agentic workloads across Agent Platform, Agent Harness, and Serverless Workers.
• Shape the end-to-end compute experience, including worker configuration and scaling, and helping users understand usage and cost.
• Create future-state prototypes that establish a vision for Temporal's agent and compute experiences and help Product and Engineering align roadmaps.
• Design across the surfaces where developers interact with Temporal, including the Cloud UI, CLI, SDKs, and documentation.
• Use AI daily to explore, prototype, and test ideas, and bring that perspective into product decisions.
• Partner with Product Managers and Engineers from discovery through delivery to define problems, validate direction, and ship products.
• Contribute to and extend Temporal's Design System for agentic use cases, maintaining consistency across the expanding product surface.
• Bring rigor to ambiguous, technical problem spaces and translate infrastructure complexity into simple, clear interfaces.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed