Senior/Staff Product Designer
- Role
- Design
- Experience
- Staff
- Employment
- Full-time
- Company size
- Enterprise
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No BS summary
Senior/Staff product designer with 5+ years of product design experience. Needs strong Figma/design systems skills, experience using AI tools in design workflows, and ability to own ambiguous product work through shipping. Developer tools or AI-native interface experience is a plus.
Core skills
Optional skills
ABOUT JETBRAINS AIR
JetBrains has been building developer tools since 2000 — including IntelliJ IDEA, Kotlin, TeamCity, and more, now trusted by 15M+ developers at 287K companies worldwide. The company is 100% private, profitable, and driven by a single thesis: great tools make developers better.
Air is what JetBrains is building next: an agentic development environment where multiple AI agents run tasks in parallel while the developer stays in control. It’s a genuinely new kind of developer tool — spanning a native desktop app, an expanding web experience, and cloud-based automations. It’s the next frontier after IDEs: not just helping developers write code, but helping them orchestrate it.
The Air design team is two people now — and you’d be the third. Your primary focus will be the web surface and the automations sub-team: an emerging part of the product that is ready for dedicated design ownership, with a real opportunity to raise the bar and shape the experience from the ground up.
WHAT YOU’LL BE WORKING ON
- Design the web interface for Air: team management, automation setup, and a results overview
- Shape the design process for the automations sub-team, working directly with developers to establish review and handoff practices
- Take features from ambiguous briefs to shipped interfaces
- Contribute to the shared design system: add and maintain components in Figma as the product grows
- Vibe-code and use AI for prototyping when it helps move ideas forward faster
- Participate in cross-team demos and quarterly planning, bringing a design perspective to where Air should go next
WHAT YOU NEED
- 5+ years of product design experience, with great examples of delivering results that impact the business.
- Ownership instinct. You see features through from design to production. Delivery is part of your definition of done.
- Excellent cross-team project delivery. You can work with limited context, clarify what matters, define the scope, and move projects forward across teams without needing constant hand-holding.
- Active AI user. You use AI tools in your design workflow. You’ve experimented with building or prototyping with Cursor, Claude, or similar. This market moves weekly; you should too.
- Solid Figma skills. Proficient with components, tokens/variables, and design systems — you can navigate an existing UI kit, understand how it works, and contribute new components as the product grows.
Nice to have:
- Experience with developer-focused products or technical tooling (IDEs, dashboards, data tools)
- Experience with vibe-coding, design engineering, or code-level prototypes
- Familiarity with agentic or AI-native interface patterns — trust signals, human-in-the-loop, error handling at scale
WHAT YOU GET
- Rare product scope. Work on a product that could define the next generation of developer tooling — small team, direct impact, decisions that ship fast.
- JetBrains’ culture. Engineering-first, quality-focused, 100% private. No VC pressure, no artificial growth targets.
- Competitive compensation and benefits — location-dependent, with a full breakdown available on request.
What you'll do
- Design the web interface for Air: team management, automation setup, and a results overview
- Shape the design process for the automations sub-team, working directly with developers to establish review and handoff practices
- Take features from ambiguous briefs to shipped interfaces
- Contribute to the shared design system: add and maintain components in Figma as the product grows
- Vibe-code and use AI for prototyping when it helps move ideas forward faster
- Participate in cross-team demos and quarterly planning, bringing a design perspective to where Air should go next
What they require
- 5+ years of product design experience, with great examples of delivering results that impact the business.
- Ownership instinct. You see features through from design to production. Delivery is part of your definition of done.
- Excellent cross-team project delivery. You can work with limited context, clarify what matters, define the scope, and move projects forward across teams without needing constant hand-holding.
- Active AI user. You use AI tools in your design workflow. You’ve experimented with building or prototyping with Cursor, Claude, or similar. This market moves weekly; you should too.
- Solid Figma skills. Proficient with components, tokens/variables, and design systems — you can navigate an existing UI kit, understand how it works, and contribute new components as the product grows.
- Preferred: Experience with developer-focused products or technical tooling (IDEs, dashboards, data tools)
- Preferred: Experience with vibe-coding, design engineering, or code-level prototypes
- Preferred: Familiarity with agentic or AI-native interface patterns — trust signals, human-in-the-loop, error handling at scale
Benefits
- Rare product scope. Work on a product that could define the next generation of developer tooling — small team, direct impact, decisions that ship fast.
- JetBrains’ culture. Engineering-first, quality-focused, 100% private. No VC pressure, no artificial growth targets.
- Competitive compensation and benefits — location-dependent, with a full breakdown available on request.
Software Development