154K–252K USD / year
Staff AI-Native Product Designer, Product - Nexus
ProductRemote — United States, Canada
Published on 2026-11-10
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About this role
Lead the end-to-end design of Nexus, Temporal’s cross-namespace connectivity capabilities. Make complex distributed-system concepts clear and usable across product interfaces, developer workflows, APIs, and supporting documentation.
About the company
Temporal is a durable execution platform for running reliable workflows and long-running business processes. It helps engineering teams build fault-tolerant applications without custom state machines.
The team
Nexus, within Product and Design
What you'll do
- Lead Nexus design from problem framing through interaction design, validation, and delivery
- Design clear experiences for connectivity, configuration, workflow communication, and operational visibility
- Partner with Product and Engineering to define problems, explore solutions, and balance usability with technical constraints
- Create high-fidelity designs and prototypes covering workflows, errors, permissions, and recovery
- Develop reusable patterns and contribute to Temporal’s design system
- Use research, usability testing, customer feedback, and product data to guide decisions
- Mentor colleagues and raise product-design quality through critique and clear rationale
What we're looking for
- Significant product-design experience with complex technical products, developer tools, infrastructure, SaaS, or workflow applications
- Portfolio demonstrating interaction and visual design, information architecture, complex workflows, prototypes, and shipped products
- Ability to explain sophisticated technical concepts without losing important user needs or system behavior
- Experience partnering with Product and Engineering on ambiguous problems from discovery through implementation
- Strong systems thinking and attention to states, permissions, configuration, failure modes, accessibility, and operational context
- Strong communication and ability to influence product direction
- Available to work remotely from the United States or Canada and attend occasional in-person sessions
Nice to have
- Experience with distributed systems, workflow orchestration, cloud infrastructure, APIs, or developer platforms
- Familiarity with Temporal, durable execution, or cross-service workflows
- Experience designing for both technical builders and operators
- Knowledge of accessibility standards, responsive design, and design systems