Senior Technical Product Manager (IntelliJ Kotlin Plugin) (m/f/d)
Core
Own the end-to-end product vision and roadmap for the Kotlin plugin in IntelliJ IDEA, ensuring fast, correct, and trustworthy IDE support that evolves with the language.
Role type
Senior Technical Product Manager (Developer Tools)
Builds
IntelliJ IDEA with Kotlin plugin, reference projects, and AI-powered prototypes
Domain
Developer tools, IDEs, Kotlin language ecosystem
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
Professional software development in Java or Kotlin, hands-on product management in complex technical domains, experience with AI coding tools and agents, roadmap definition with trade-offs, stakeholder alignment, external community representation
Preferred skills
Experience developing IntelliJ plugins or using IntelliJ Platform SDK, building evaluation pipelines or benchmarks, giving technical talks to developer audiences
Technologies
IntelliJ IDEA, Kotlin, AI coding agents, IntelliJ Platform SDK
Responsibilities
Own the product vision and roadmap for the Kotlin plugin, use IntelliJ IDEA with the Kotlin plugin daily for dogfooding and regression testing, maintain and develop reference Kotlin projects, build prototypes and proofs-of-concept using AI coding agents, align plugin planning with Kotlin compiler and IntelliJ IDEA release trains, define problem statements and success criteria for features, represent core Kotlin personas and prioritize pain points, run monthly user interviews, coordinate with internal teams and external partners, create external visibility through posts, talks, and conference previews
