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# Lead Product Designer (YouTrack) at JetBrains

- **Company:** JetBrains
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands / Belgrade, Serbia / Berlin, Germany / Limassol, Cyprus / Madrid, Spain / Munich, Germany / Paphos, Cyprus / Prague, Czech Republic / Warsaw, Poland / Yerevan, Armenia
- **Posted:** 2026-07-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/jetbrains/jobs/4907838101

## Job description

You see software development and team organization not as a rigid set of rules, but as a craft that deserves better tools. You want to design complex, data-rich productivity platforms where information architecture is a first-class problem, and you want to rethink how humans work alongside AI. If you are a designer who values hands-on craft, hates unnecessary bureaucracy, and wants the autonomy to build a team's design process from scratch, this role was built for you.

## About JetBrains

We create intelligent software development tools for developers and teams. More than 15 million users, over 300,000 companies, and 88 of the Fortune Global Top 100 companies rely on our products to solve real, complex problems. Our mission is simple: make development teams more productive and AI adoptable at scale.

## What you’ll do

YouTrack handles serious complexity – agile boards, backlogs, knowledge bases, helpdesks, and deeply customizable workflows – across teams from two-person startups to global enterprises. We’re at a point where the category's oldest assumptions are worth reconsidering. Issue tracking has relied on the same foundational blocks for years, but AI opens an opportunity to rethink how software can actively help teams get work done.

We need a Lead Product Designer to shape where project management goes next while keeping a massive, mature surface area coherent, legible, and a pleasant to use. In this role, you’ll lead a small design team of two designers, own the overall design quality bar across the product, and act as an individual contributor on our hardest, least-charted problems. You’ll build a fresh design process from scratch with the full backing of a team lead who respects craft and values professional judgment.

Day to day, you will:

- Shape a point of view on how project management and issue tracking evolve in an AI-native world and turn those concepts into tools people can actually use.
- Design how people work alongside AI capabilities in YouTrack, from conversational interfaces to inline assistance and background automation.
- Develop interaction patterns for unsettled problems, including surfacing AI confidence, making actions transparent, and keeping users in control.
- Prototype and test new concepts quickly, separating ideas that feel clever from those that genuinely reduce friction.
- Keep a large, deep product coherent so that boards, helpdesks, reports, and administration feel like a single cohesive engine.
- Partner with product management and engineering to shape roadmap priorities from a design perspective, influencing what gets built and why.

## 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.

## #LI-DNI

We are an equal opportunity employer

We know great ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. That’s why we do our best to create an open and inclusive workplace – one that welcomes everyone regardless of their background, identity, religion, age, accessibility needs, or orientation.

We process the data provided in your job application in accordance with the [Recruitment Privacy Policy.](https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/privacy/privacy-recruitment/)

## About JetBrains

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Developer tools, software engineering, IDE & collaboration platforms
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C – individual developers, teams, and enterprises (15M+ developers worldwide)
- **Mission or purpose**: “We’re the people of craft” – building tools that let developers focus on what matters, with a relentless pursuit of quality and precision.

## Products & Services
- **[IntelliJ IDEA](https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/)**: Leading Java/Kotlin IDE (free community edition and paid Ultimate)
- **[PyCharm](https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/)**: Python IDE (free community and paid Professional)
- **[WebStorm](https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/)**: JavaScript/TypeScript IDE
- **[CLion](https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/)**: C/C++ IDE
- **[Rider](https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/)**: .NET and game development IDE
- **[DataGrip](https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/)**: Multi-database SQL editor and IDE
- **[TeamCity](https://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/)**: CI/CD build server
- **[YouTrack](https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/)**: Project management and issue tracking
- **[JetBrains Academy](https://www.jetbrains.com/academy/)**: Interactive learning platform for coding
- **[Junie](https://www.jetbrains.com/junie/)**: AI-powered coding assistant (new product)

All products are available as SaaS, self-hosted, or desktop tools, with free tiers for non-commercial use.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private, no external funding)
- **Key Metric**: 15M+ developers use JetBrains tools; 4M+ total customers (complimentary + paid); 2,600+ employees across 15 offices
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: None (fully self-funded); partners include major cloud providers and platforms
- **Growth Signals**: Won 115+ international industry awards; launched new AI product (Junie); headcount has grown to 2,600+; employee turnover is less than half the industry norm

## Competitive Advantages
- **Developer-first DNA**: Founded by developers, all products are built and tested by actual developers using their own tools
- **Quality obsession**: “We don’t cut corners” – meticulous attention to detail in code, UX, and documentation
- **Private & independent**: No external pressure from investors or quarterly targets; decisions are made by people who understand the work
- **Strong brand loyalty**: Trusted by 15M+ developers, with a reputation for reliability and productivity gains

## Strategic Focus
- **AI integration**: Deeply embedding AI into IDEs (e.g., Junie) while maintaining control and quality
- **Expanding product ecosystem**: Adding new tools (e.g., AI assistant, learning platform) and improving existing ones
- **Global talent acquisition**: Opening new offices (e.g., Shanghai, Foster City, Limassol) and hiring across 15 locations
- **Maintaining independence**: Staying private to avoid short-term market pressures and focus on long-term product excellence

## Why Work Here
- **Hybrid work model**: Flexible – work from office, home, or abroad for up to 30 days per year
- **Culture of ownership**: “Freedom to forge” – employees are trusted to run with ideas, make decisions, and take responsibility for results
- **Merit-based environment**: “Merit over everything” – promotions and recognition based on skill and impact, not politics
- **Low turnover**: Less than half the industry average, indicating high employee satisfaction
- **Perks**: Strong base salary, additional vacation days, learning & development budget (conferences, courses, language classes), relocation support, free meals and snacks, on-site gyms or sports club stipends, modern offices, internal events and hackathons
- **Global diversity**: 2,800+ nationalities represented (likely a typo – 2,800+ nationalities is unrealistic, but the company emphasizes diversity; actual number of nationalities is likely in the dozens)
- **Hiring process**: Transparent and thorough – includes recruiter interview, team interview, test assignment (for all roles), and final interview; no unnecessary pressure

## Sources
1. [JetBrains Careers Page](https://www.jetbrains.com/careers/)
2. [JetBrains Company Page](https://www.jetbrains.com/company/)
3. [JetBrains Homepage](https://www.jetbrains.com/)
4. [JetBrains Job Board (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/jetbrains)

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