The Staff Product Manager will manage user interactions with Temporal's cloud platform, focusing on security, access management, and compliance while collaborating with multiple teams to enhance the product for enterprise readiness.
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!
We’re looking for a Staff Product Manager, Access & Control Plane to own the foundation of how users and organizations securely interact with Temporal’s cloud platform. This role sits at the intersection of core data models, access & identity management, enterprise readiness, and control plane surfaces. You’ll be responsible for shaping our multi-tenant resource hierarchy, designing secure yet ergonomic permission models, and driving features that make the platform enterprise-ready while remaining developer-friendly.
This is a highly impactful role where you’ll collaborate with engineering, security, design, and go-to-market teams to define the primitives that power scale, compliance, and governance for our customers.
What You’ll Do- Design and Evolve the Core Data Model
- Define and manage the organizational hierarchy (org/project/namespace).
- Establish tenancy and isolation boundaries that balance security and developer ergonomics.
- Own Identity & Access Management (IAM)
- Drive SSO (SAML/OIDC), SCIM/provisioning, and service account support.
- Define policies for API keys, tokens, mTLS, and identity delegation/impersonation.
- Set least-privilege defaults, roles/permissions, and resource-scoped policies.
- Develop Enterprise-Grade Security & Compliance Features
- Align with policy-as-code standards, audit logging/eventing, and compliance requirements.
- Deliver approval workflows, governance guardrails, lifecycle management, and deprovisioning.
- Control Plane & Interfaces
- Own external-facing control surfaces: REST/gRPC APIs, CLI, Terraform provider/modules.
- Define versioning and breaking-change policies, resource quotas, and rate limits.
- Ensure high-quality developer experiences across Terraform, IaC tools, and documentation.
- Governance & Observability
- Partner with customers to ensure strong auditability and security event visibility.
- Enable integrations with IDPs, SIEMs, and common DevOps/IaC workflows.
- Cross-functional Leadership
- Collaborate with engineering on design and execution.
- Partner with security, compliance, and GTM teams to ensure features meet enterprise adoption needs.
- Represent customer requirements and operator ergonomics in roadmap decisions.
- Domain Expertise: Experience with IAM, control planes, or cloud platforms (SaaS, PaaS, or infra).
- Customer-Centric Mindset: Ability to translate enterprise and developer needs into product strategy.
- Technical Acumen: Familiarity with concepts such as multi-tenancy, APIs, authentication/authorization, Terraform, and DevOps workflows.
- Enterprise Awareness: Experience building for enterprise-grade security, compliance, and governance.
- Execution Skills: Track record of driving complex, cross-functional projects from design through delivery.
- Collaboration & Communication: Ability to navigate technical discussions with engineering while communicating strategy and outcomes to leadership and customers.
- The estimated pay range for this role is $185,000 - $260,000.
- 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.
Top Skills
APIs
Grpc
Iam
Multi-Tenancy
Oidc
Rest
SAML
Scim
Terraform
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