Senior Solutions Architect, Commercial - SF

Summary Temporal is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to support our Commercial Sales team in a consumption-based business where customer success drives revenue growth. You'll work across the full sales cycle, from initial technical evaluations with new prospects through helping existing customers expand their use of Temporal in production. The nature of our business means you'll spend significant time helping customers who've already adopted Temporal unlock more value by expanding into additional use cases, teams, and workloads. This is a high-velocity, technically deep role. You'll partner with developers, architects, and engineering leaders at fast-moving companies to help them understand how Temporal fits into their existing architecture and prove out value through hands-on technical work. You'll be working in a consumption model where usage grows over time, which means building strong technical relationships and staying engaged with accounts as they scale. As an early member of a growing team, you should be comfortable with ambiguity, frequent context switching, and creating leverage through reusable assets that help the broader team move faster. Must reside in San Francisco, CA What You'll Do - Partner with Account Executives throughout the sales cycle to qualify new opportunities, run technical evaluations, and expand production usage with existing customers - Lead technical conversations with developers, architects, and engineering leaders to understand their systems, constraints, and business objectives - Build tailored demos and proof-of-concepts that showcase how Temporal solves specific customer problems, including orchestration of AI and agentic workloads - Deliver enablement sessions that help customer engineering teams adopt Temporal effectively - Create reusable technical assets that accelerate deals and scale the team's impact - Enable the Commercial Sales team by educating AEs on Temporal fundamentals, common patterns, and opportunity qualif