
Lead Product Designer (YouTrack)
JetBrains
Lead Product Designer (YouTrack)
JetBrains seeks a Lead Product Designer for YouTrack to shape the future of project management and issue tracking with AI. The role involves leading a small design team, owning design quality, and acting as an individual contributor on complex problems. Requires experience with data-rich productivity tools, AI systems, and mentoring designers.
Lead Product Designer (YouTrack)
JetBrains seeks a Lead Product Designer for YouTrack to shape the future of project management and issue tracking with AI. The role involves leading a small design team, owning design quality, and acting as an individual contributor on complex problems. Requires experience with data-rich productivity tools, AI systems, and mentoring designers.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Key Responsibilities
- 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.