What you’ll bring
- A deep commitment to craft ownership, holding yourself and your team to high standards without creating bottlenecks.
- Comfort building clear, lightweight processes, without turning them into restrictive bureaucracy.
- The generosity to share knowledge openly and collaborate across a broad, global design community.
- Clarity in your writing and reasoning, with the ability to explain complex design decisions in plain words.
- Comfort with ambiguity and a healthy appetite for finding the right questions before designing the answers.
- Strong opinions, loosely held, with a clear understanding of when to follow platform conventions and when to break them.
What you’ll need
- Successfully led the design of complex, data-rich productivity tools or software systems where information architecture is a primary challenge.
- Proven understanding of how modern AI systems operate beyond single-turn prompts, including agentic workflows and multi-step execution.
- Experience mentoring and leading other designers, giving clear feedback that lands and raises the bar.
- Ability to design unified experiences that cater to small startup teams and large enterprise customers simultaneously.
- A portfolio showing a range of work from precise micro-interactions to large-scale information architecture.
What success looks like
Success means earning the trust of your team and peers through sound interaction choices and clear systemic improvements. You will establish a reliable critique rhythm and a structured way of working that helps your designers grow. Within your first few months, delivering clear patterns for our AI capabilities, paying down accumulated UX debt, and ensuring YouTrack remains both deep and remarkably quick on its feet.
Why join JetBrains?
- Strong base salary. We offer competitive pay that reflects your skills and experience.
- Flexible work schedule. Enjoy the freedom to work from home or from the office.
- Extra time off. More days to relax, recharge, and do the things you love.
- Learning and development opportunities. Access to conferences, courses, and language classes.
- Relocation support. Assistance to help make your move as smooth and stress-free as possible.
- Free meals and snacks. Lunch and refreshments provided to keep you fueled.
- Health and wellness. On-site gyms or sports club stipends.
- Internal events. Company-wide celebrations and team gatherings.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.
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