Senior Technical Product Manager (IntelliJ Kotlin Plugin)

JetBrains develops the Kotlin plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, used by hundreds of thousands of developers to write, navigate, refactor, and understand Kotlin code.

• Professional software development experience in Java or Kotlin.
• 5+ years of experience in technical product management or a comparable role in a complex technical domain.
• Hands-on product person who works directly with the product rather than only managing through reports and meetings.
• Experience with AI coding tools and agents, with curiosity about their impact on developer workflows.
• Ability to define clear roadmaps with problem statements, success criteria, and explicit trade-offs.
• Strong communication skills in English, both written and spoken, for technical peers and executive audiences.
• Willingness to represent the product externally at conferences, in blog posts, and community interactions.
• Personal commitment to developer experience, feeling it in daily workflow.

Nice to have:

• Experience developing IntelliJ plugins or working with the IntelliJ Platform SDK.
• Experience building or contributing to evaluation pipelines, benchmarks, or quality measurement systems.
• Experience giving technical talks or publishing content aimed at developer audiences.

• Own the product vision for the Kotlin plugin: fast, correct, and trustworthy IDE support that evolves with the language.
• Use IntelliJ IDEA with the Kotlin plugin daily to dogfood features, catch regressions, and validate the developer experience.
• Maintain and develop reference Kotlin projects as showcases, demo materials, and test beds for developer experience quality.
• Build prototypes and proofs-of-concept using AI coding agents to explore and validate new capabilities.
• Own and adapt the plugin roadmap across short-term releases, mid-term initiatives, and longer-term Kotlin ecosystem projects.
• Align plugin planning with Kotlin compiler releases, IntelliJ IDEA release trains, and Android Studio constraints.
• Make explicit trade-offs and say "no" when cost, risk, or maintenance burden outweighs user value.
• Define problem statements, success criteria, and scope for features, then collaborate with engineers to validate and refine.
• Represent core Kotlin personas and prioritize recurring pain points such as false positives, slow analysis, unreliable refactorings, onboarding pain points, and AI agents integrations.
• Run monthly user interviews to ground decisions in real workflows.
• Coordinate with Kotlin language team, Developer Advocates, framework partners, Marketing, and other JetBrains teams.
• Create external visibility through what's-new posts, Kotlin User Groups meetup talks, and feature previews at events like KotlinConf, Spring I/O, and Devoxx.

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