Technical Executive Communications, Senior Manager

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San Francisco, CA, USA
Hybrid
173K-284K Annually
Senior level
Software
The Role
Own the external communications and social presence of Temporal’s co-founders and CEO/CTO. Ghostwrite technical essays, posts, bylines, and executive messaging; prepare founders for keynotes, customer meetings, podcasts, and media engagements; and partner with Product Marketing and Media Relations. The role requires strong developer communications experience, technical fluency, independent judgment, and frequent travel for in-person collaboration.
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Role summary

We're looking for a technical storyteller to own the external voice of our co-founder and CEO, Samar Abbas, and our co-founder and CTO, Maxim Fateev. You come out of developer relations, technical communications, or technical product marketing, turning technical depth into content developers respect, and you'll bring that craft to how both founders show up on stage, in print, and on their own feeds.

You can think alongside Samar and Maxim without a translation layer, and write in a way that earns a developer audience instead of talking past it. Part of the job is connective: you chase down the substance and positioning that feed their voice from across the company, then turn it into something worth reading.

This role reports to the Senior Director of Brand Communications, and it's built to grow. The person who does it well will shape how executive communications works at Temporal as the company and its founders' presence scale.

What You'll Do

  • Run their social and short-form voice: own the day-to-day presence, drafting posts, reactions, and takes in each founder's actual voice, knowing the difference between something that lands with developers on X or Hacker News and something that gets ratioed, and building their following as a channel you're accountable for.

  • Keep each of them sounding like themselves: learn how Samar and Maxim each think, well enough to surface what's genuinely theirs and keep a house voice from creeping in over it.

  • Ghostwrite their long-form: turn a rough voice memo or a whiteboard sketch of an argument into the essays, bylines, and technical posts that carry their thinking, finished enough to read like they wrote it themselves.

  • Prepare them to speak: build the narratives, talk tracks, and supporting material for Replay keynotes, customer meetings, fireside chats, and briefings, partnering with Product Marketing on the technical story and positioning, and running the prep so they walk in knowing the material cold.

  • Partner with Media Relations on earned credibility: work alongside the media team to translate the founders' point of view into press that lands, bringing the technical fluency to get their thinking right while they bring the reporters and the craft.

  • Travel: Maxim and Samar prefer frequent in-person collaboration, so travel is expected for this role.

What Success Looks Like

  • Samar and Maxim have strong, distinctive presences in their own voice, with followings that grow month over month among the developers and technical leaders who matter.

  • The longer you work with them, the more they sound like themselves, sharper and more distinct, and less like anyone media-trained them.

  • Their long-form lands with engineers and sparks real conversation, published on a steady cadence.

  • They're speaking at the conferences and on the podcasts you'd want them at, and they walk in fully prepared.

  • Inbound builds: podcasts, conference organizers, and reporters come looking for them.

  • Across social, stage, long-form, and press, the founders come through as the same sharp, credible people, and their reach compounds because of it.

What You'll Bring

  • Your background is in developer relations, technical communications, or technical product marketing, and you've made technical material that developers actually read. This part can't be faked.

  • You've run social for a company, a founder, or an executive, and you know the culture well enough to feel which posts land before you hit send.

  • You've written for or as a technical voice, and you know the difference between prose that reads well and words a specific person can actually say out loud as their own.

  • You're technically fluent. You can hold your own with an engineer and call out when an argument doesn't hold up.

  • You bring your own point of view and a backlog of ideas, and you don't wait to be handed a brief.

  • You live in this world, close enough to AI, infrastructure, and developer culture to know which conversations to pull the founders into and where things are heading next.

  • You move fast, take the ball, and keep pace with two founders who think out loud.

  • Familiarity with durable execution, workflow orchestration, or distributed systems is a real plus.

Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.

Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.

Skills Required

  • Background in developer relations, technical communications, or technical product marketing
  • Created technical content that developers read and respect
  • Experience running social media for a company, founder, or executive
  • Experience writing as or for a technical voice, including ghostwriting
  • Technical fluency sufficient to collaborate with engineers and evaluate technical arguments
  • Independent point of view, initiative, and a backlog of communication ideas
  • Knowledge of AI, infrastructure, and developer culture
  • Ability to work quickly and keep pace with fast-moving founders
  • Familiarity with durable execution, workflow orchestration, or distributed systems

Temporal Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Temporal Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Temporal Technologies.

  • Healthcare Strength Healthcare coverage is described as 100% employer-paid for medical, dental, and vision, with AD&D, short- and long-term disability, and life insurance included. Feedback suggests this breadth and cost coverage is a strong differentiator for a remote-first employer.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time off includes unlimited PTO alongside 12 standard holidays and 2 floating holidays. Feedback suggests this structure supports rest and recharge across teams.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Wellbeing and remote-work support include a home office stipend, internet reimbursement, WFH meals, Calm app access, a lifestyle spending account, and learning/professional membership budgets. Feedback suggests these perks enhance overall total rewards beyond base pay.

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The Company
HQ: Bellevue, Washington
501 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Temporal develops and distributes the world's leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple. Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair. More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industry's most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.

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