Staff Product Manager, Agent Connectivity

Temporal Technologies•Seattle, WA

About The Position

Temporal is evolving from core durable execution toward supporting AI-powered software and agents. The Staff Product Manager, Agent Connectivity will help shape how Temporal supports agent builders by expanding Nexus, Temporal’s connectivity layer, with foundational capabilities and agent-specific features and integrations such as an MCP connector and tool registry. The role identifies high-leverage product investments and works closely with the founder/CTO and engineering team to bring them to market. The position owns Nexus strategy and roadmap, turns ambiguous customer and market signals into product theses, and leads discovery with customers, field teams, and the open-source community. It requires technical depth in distributed systems, workflow orchestration, service-to-service communication, APIs, SDKs, identity, and authorization, along with experience in developer platforms and technical products. Nexus is past general availability and entering a phase of broader adoption. The product manager will advance its developer experience, connector foundations, operator controls, and future opportunities such as a connector ecosystem, Service Hub, and Agentic Communication Fabric. The role also includes defining success measures and enabling company teams to explain, sell, deploy, and support Nexus. Temporal describes the work environment as fast-moving, cross-functional, and focused on ownership, customer needs, and company results. Temporal Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. The company embraces diversity and provides reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities; applicants who need an accommodation are asked to inform their recruiter.

Requirements

At least 8 years of product management experience.
Technical depth and experience working on platform, infrastructure, developer tools, or other technical products.
Experience at a startup, high-growth company, or in a similarly intense and ambiguous environment.
Ability to reason about distributed systems, workflow orchestration, service-to-service communication, APIs, SDKs, identity, and authorization.
Developer-platform experience, such as work with infrastructure, platforms, integrations, APIs, SDKs, service mesh, API gateways, or cloud developer products.
Strong product and operational judgment, ownership, resilience, curiosity, and a customer-first approach.

Responsibilities

Own the product strategy and roadmap for agent connectivity and Nexus.
Prioritize capabilities that make Nexus a durable connectivity layer across teams, namespaces, services, and AI systems.
Drive completion of in-flight work, including the Nexus developer experience, Standalone Nexus Operations, connector foundations, caller identity, rate limits, and payload encryption.
Conduct customer discovery and stay close to design partners and strategic customers, including Netflix, Duolingo, and Miro.
Translate customer, field, and open-source community signals into product changes, new abstractions, and platform investments.
Balance SDK ergonomics, schema-first contracts, code generation, service discovery, security, visibility, and control-plane needs.
Help engineers and designers understand user needs and make effective product decisions.
Craft messaging for upcoming features and enable sales and marketing teams to communicate with and win customers.
Coordinate cross-functional launch and enablement so company teams understand Nexus and can sell, deploy, and support it.
Define success measures, including activated accounts, completed Nexus operations, shared-service usage, SDK coverage, design-partner progress, and field readiness.
Identify and prioritize agent-specific features and integrations, such as an MCP connector and tool registry.