Staff Product Manager, Self-Hosted and Connected Temporal

Role overview Set product strategy for customer use cases that run outside a managed cloud service, including self-hosted, hybrid, and restricted environments. You’ll investigate why customers choose these setups, decide which needs merit investment, and guide selected offerings from business case through launch and adoption while helping sustain a strong open-source product.

Responsibilities - Research where and why customers run the platform outside the managed cloud, distinguishing technical, regulatory, operational, and commercial drivers. - Turn customer evidence into useful market segments and recommend which needs to address, which belong in the cloud service, and which to leave unmet. - Establish a clear boundary between open-source improvements and paid products or support. - Work with leadership, Sales, and Finance on packaging, pricing, and the economics of products operated outside company infrastructure. - Coordinate with product peers to make cloud adoption compelling where it fits, including a clear value and total-cost-of-ownership case. - Align engineering, security, customer-facing, and go-to-market teams, then measure outcomes such as adoption, revenue, and retention.

Requirements - Experience setting product strategy, identifying an offering or market opportunity, building the case, and carrying it through to revenue. - Background with infrastructure or platform products customers operate themselves, such as open-source, on-premises, or hybrid systems. - Commercial judgment connecting customer needs to willingness to pay, pricing, and delivery and support costs. - Technical depth in distributed systems and operations, including areas such as Kubernetes, databases, replication, upgrades, and failure recovery. - Ability to make evidence-based product choices, revise them when evidence changes, and explain recommendations clearly in writing.

Nice to have - Experience commercializing open-source or open-core products. - Familiarity with air-gapped, regulated, sovereign-cloud, or bring-your-own-cloud environments. - Experience selling to enterprise platform teams or AI companies.