Senior Technical Product Manager (IntelliJ Kotlin Plugin)
Required skills
Has professional software development experience in Java or Kotlin, Has 5+ years of experience in technical product management or a comparable role in a complex technical domain, Is a hands-on product person who lives in the product, Has experience with AI coding tools and agents, Can define clear roadmaps with problem statements, success criteria, and explicit trade-offs, Has strong communication skills in English, Is ready to represent the product externally at conferences, in blog posts, and in community interactions
Preferred skills
Has experience developing IntelliJ plugins or working with the IntelliJ Platform SDK, Has built or contributed to evaluation pipelines, benchmarks, or quality measurement systems, Has given technical talks or published content aimed at developer audiences
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, Maintain and develop reference Kotlin projects, Build prototypes and proofs-of-concept using AI coding agents, Own and continuously adapt the plugin roadmap, Align plugin planning with Kotlin compiler releases, Make explicit trade-offs and say "no" when cost, risk, or maintenance burden outweighs user value, Define problem statements, success criteria, and scope for features, Represent core Kotlin personas, Run a consistent pipeline of monthly user interviews, Coordinate with Kotlin language team, Developer Advocates, framework partners, Marketing, and other JetBrains teams, Create external visibility through what's-new posts, Kotlin User Groups meetup talks, and feature previews at events like KotlinConf, Spring I/O, Devoxx and others
Seniority
Senior
Domain
Software development, Developer tools, Kotlin, IntelliJ IDEA, AI coding tools