Staff AI-Native Product Designer, Product - Nexus

About the role

Role Summary

We’re seeking a Staff Product Designer to shape the user experience for Nexus, Temporal’s cross-namespace connectivity capabilities. You’ll make complex distributed-system concepts understandable and approachable for developers and operators, designing coherent experiences across product surfaces, workflows, and supporting documentation. This role combines strong UI and interaction design with systems thinking, product strategy, and close partnership across Product, Engineering, and Developer Experience.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the end-to-end design direction for Nexus experiences, from early problem framing through detailed interaction design, validation, and delivery.

• Turn complex concepts such as cross-namespace connectivity, workflow communication, configuration, and operational visibility into clear, intuitive user experiences.

• Partner with Product and Engineering to define user problems, explore solutions, clarify requirements, and make thoughtful tradeoffs across 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 that communicate behavior across happy paths, edge cases, errors, permissions, and recovery scenarios.

• Establish reusable patterns and contribute to design-system evolution so Nexus experiences feel 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.

• Raise the quality of product design across the organization through critique, mentorship, and clear design rationale.

What You’ll Bring

• Significant experience leading product design for complex technical products, developer tools, infrastructure, SaaS, or workflow-oriented applications.

• Strong interaction and visual design skills, with a portfolio showing thoughtful information architecture, complex workflows, prototypes, and shipped product experiences.

• Ability to make sophisticated technical concepts understandable without oversimplifying the underlying 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 the ability to influence product direction through customer insight, design rationale, and collaborative decision-making.

• Remote-first availability in the United States or Canada, with the ability to participate in occasional in-person immersion sessions and team offsites. This role has no on-call requirement.

Nice to Have

• 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 the operators responsible for reliability, governance, and troubleshooting.

• Familiarity with accessibility standards, responsive design, and design-system practices for complex web applications.

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