Staff Product Designer | JetBrains

<h2><strong>About JetBrains Air</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Air</strong> 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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">The Air design team is two people now — and you’d be the third. Your primary focus will be the <strong>web surface</strong> and the <strong>automations sub-team</strong>: 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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>What you’ll be working on</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design the web interface for Air: team management, automation setup, and a results overview</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Shape the design process for the automations sub-team, working directly with developers to establish review and handoff practices</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own how the design system evolves across web and desktop: what belongs in it, what stays local, how two surfaces stay one product.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Vibe-code and use AI for prototyping when it helps move ideas forward faster</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Participate in cross-team demos and quarterly planning, bringing a design perspective to where Air should go next</p></li></ul><h2><strong>What you need</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>7+ years</strong> of product design experience, with great examples of delivering results that impact the business.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Ownership instinct.</strong> You see features through from design to production. Delivery is part of your definition of done.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Excellent cross-team project delivery.</strong> You can work with limited context, clarify what matters, define the scope, and move projects forward across teams without needing constant hand-holding.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Active AI user.</strong> 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.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Solid Figma skills.</strong> 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.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Nice to have:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with developer-focused products or technical tooling (IDEs, dashboards, data tools)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with vibe-coding, design engineering, or code-level prototypes</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Familiarity with agentic or AI-native interface patterns — trust signals, human-in-the-loop, error handling at scale</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p></li></ul><h2><strong>What you get</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Rare product scope.</strong> Work on a product that could define the next generation of developer tooling — small team, direct impact, decisions that ship fast.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>JetBrains’ culture.</strong> Engineering-first, quality-focused, 100% private. No VC pressure, no artificial growth targets.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Competitive compensation and benefits</strong> — location-dependent, with a full breakdown available on request.</p></li></ul><p>Find <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.co.uk">Jobs in United Kingdom</a> on Arbeitnow</a>