Figma · UI · Interaction Design
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 i