Staff AI-Native Product Designer, Product - Nexus
About The Position
Temporal is seeking a Staff Product Designer to shape the user experience for Nexus, its cross-namespace connectivity capabilities. The role focuses on making complex distributed-system concepts understandable and approachable for developers and operators, and on creating coherent experiences across product surfaces, workflows, and supporting documentation. It combines UI and interaction design with systems thinking, product strategy, and close collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Developer Experience. The designer will lead Nexus design from problem framing through interaction design, validation, and delivery; partner with Product and Engineering to define problems and weigh usability, reliability, scalability, and technical constraints; and design cohesive experiences across Temporal Cloud interfaces, developer workflows, APIs, and other product surfaces. The role also contributes to design-system evolution, represents user needs in roadmap and architecture discussions, and raises design quality through critique, mentorship, and clear rationale. This is a remote-first role for someone based in the United States or Canada. Occasional in-person immersion sessions and team offsites may be required. There is no on-call requirement. 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 accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, services, programs, and activities. Candidates needing accommodation should notify their recruiter.
Requirements
- Significant experience leading product design for complex technical products, developer tools, infrastructure, SaaS, or workflow-oriented applications.
- Strong interaction and visual design skills, supported by a portfolio showing thoughtful information architecture, complex workflows, prototypes, and shipped product experiences.
- Ability to make sophisticated technical concepts understandable without oversimplifying user needs or system behavior.
- Experience partnering closely with Product and Engineering on ambiguous, cross-functional problems from discovery through implementation.
- Strong systems thinking and attention to detail across states, permissions, configuration, failure modes, accessibility, and operational context.
- Clear communication skills and ability to influence product direction through customer insight, design rationale, and collaborative decision-making.
- Remote-first availability in the United States or Canada, with ability to participate in occasional in-person immersion sessions and team offsites.
Nice To Haves
- Experience designing products for distributed systems, workflow orchestration, cloud infrastructure, APIs, or developer platforms.
- Familiarity with Temporal, durable execution, cross-service workflows, or related developer concepts.
- Experience designing for both technical builders and operators responsible for reliability, governance, and troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with accessibility standards, responsive design, and design-system practices for complex web applications.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end design direction for Nexus, from early problem framing through detailed interaction design, validation, and delivery.
- Make concepts such as cross-namespace connectivity, workflow communication, configuration, and operational visibility clear and intuitive for users.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to define user problems, explore solutions, clarify requirements, and make tradeoffs involving usability, reliability, scalability, and technical constraints.
- Design cohesive experiences across Temporal Cloud interfaces, developer-facing workflows, APIs, and other surfaces that help users understand and adopt Nexus.
- Create high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and interaction models covering happy paths, edge cases, errors, permissions, and recovery scenarios.
- Establish reusable patterns and contribute to design-system evolution so Nexus experiences are consistent, accessible, and scalable across Temporal products.
- Represent user needs in roadmap and architecture discussions, using research, usability testing, customer feedback, and product data to guide decisions.
- Improve product design quality across the organization through critique, mentorship, and clear design rationale.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
