Staff Product Designer | JetBrains

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
• You decide what gets built. You turn a vague product direction into scope, a plan and a shipped surface, and you say no to the rest.
• Own how the design system evolves across web and desktop: what belongs in it, what stays local, how two surfaces stay one product.
• Vibe-code and use AI for prototyping when it helps move ide