Senior Technical Product Manager (IntelliJ Kotlin Plugin)
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
The Kotlin plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, serving hundreds of thousands of developers writing, navigating, and refactoring Kotlin code.
Domain
Developer tools, IDEs, Kotlin programming language ecosystem
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
Professional software development experience in Java or Kotlin, hands-on product management in complex technical domains, experience with AI coding tools and agents, roadmap definition with problem statements and trade-offs, external community representation
Preferred skills
Experience developing IntelliJ plugins or working with the IntelliJ Platform SDK, building evaluation pipelines or benchmarks, giving technical talks or publishing developer content
Technologies
IntelliJ IDEA, Kotlin, AI coding agents, IntelliJ Platform SDK
Responsibilities
Own the product vision for the Kotlin plugin, use IntelliJ IDEA with the Kotlin plugin daily for dogfooding, 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, represent core Kotlin personas and prioritize pain points, run monthly user interviews, coordinate with internal teams and external partners, create external visibility through posts and conference talks
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC