Lead Product Designer (YouTrack)

About the Position

You see software development and team organization not as a rigid set of rules, but as a craft that deserves better tools. You want to design complex, data-rich productivity platforms where information architecture is a first-class problem, and you want to rethink how humans work alongside AI. If you are a designer who values hands-on craft, hates unnecessary bureaucracy, and wants the autonomy to build a team's design process from scratch, this role was built for you.

Responsibilities

• Shape a point of view on how project management and issue tracking evolve in an AI-native world and turn those concepts into tools people can actually use.
• Design how people work alongside AI capabilities in YouTrack, from conversational interfaces to inline assistance and background automation.
• Develop interaction patterns for unsettled problems, including surfacing AI confidence, making actions transparent, and keeping users in control.
• Prototype and test new concepts quickly, separating ideas that feel clever from those that genuinely reduce friction.
• Keep a large, deep product coherent so that boards, helpdesks, reports, and administration feel like a single cohesive engine.
• Partner with product management and engineering to shape roadmap priorities from a design perspective, influencing what gets built and why.

Requirements

• Successfully led the design of complex, data-rich productivity tools or software systems where information architecture is a primary challenge.
• Proven understanding of how modern AI systems operate beyond single-turn prompts, including agentic workflows and multi-step execution.
• Experience mentoring and leading other designers, giving clear feedback that lands and raises the bar.
• Ability to design unified experiences that cater to small startup teams and large enterprise customers simultaneously.
• A portfolio showing a range of work from precise micro-interactions to large-scale information architecture.

Nice to Have

• Design Leadership
• Collaboration
• Mentoring
• Complex Problem Solving
• Portfolio Development

We Offer

• Strong base salary
• Flexible work schedule
• Extra time off
• Learning and development opportunities
• Relocation support
• Free meals and snacks
• Health and wellness benefits
• Internal events

About the Company

We create intelligent software development tools for developers and teams. More than 15 million users, over 300,000 companies, and 88 of the Fortune Global Top 100 companies rely on our products to solve real, complex problems. Our mission is simple: make development teams more productive and AI adoptable at scale.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

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