Staff Product Manager, Access & Control Plane
Summary
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.
What You Bring
- 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.
Compensation
- The estimated pay range for this role is $185,000 - $260,000.
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
- 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!
- 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.
- $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
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