product manager for AI coding agents

HireHi; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work location

Remote work abroad up to 30 days/yr

Medical insurance allowance

Conferences and courses

Lunch allowance

Gym or club stipend

Company celebrations and gatherings

Job summary

JetBrains Context — продукт для разработчиков и команд. Ваша задача — определить цель продукта, целевую аудиторию и направление развития Context; определить метрики успеха и рабочую дорожную карту.

Будете взаимодействовать с командами ML, инженерии и маркетинга, формировать требования и этапы реализации, а также представлять контент внешним сообществам. Анализ конкурентов и обеспечение качества retrieval/агентских поверхностей входит в обязанности.

Qualifications

• Наличие впечатляющего опыта владения сложным продуктом для разработчиков/платформы от идеи до релиза.
• Знакомство с современными инструментами ИИ и рабочими процессами агентов.
• Умение работать напрямую с инженерной командой по поведению извлечения, API и моделям данных.
• Опыт коммуникации продукта внешне: тексты, доклады или участие в сообществе.

Responsibilities

• Определять цель context‑продукта, целевых пользователей и направление развития.
• Ставить и измерять метрики успеха, разрабатывать дорожную карту и набор задач.
• Работать с командами ML и инфраструктуры, согласовывать архитектуру и API surfaces.
• Представлять продукт внешним аудиториям и сообществу, анализировать конкурентов.

Skills

Product ownership

AI tooling familiarity

Metrics & evaluation

Communication skills

Job description

Описание:

JetBrains creates intelligent software development tools for developers and teams. Its products help more than 15 million users and over 300,000 companies solve complex problems, with a mission to make development teams more productive and AI adoptable at scale.

Задачи:

Own JetBrains Context as a product by defining its purpose, target users, success measures, and future direction; Build and maintain a deep understanding of chunking, embeddings, index freshness, retrieval, reranking, and agent-facing surfaces; Define and defend the product vision, target audiences, use cases, and key success metrics; Translate product strategy into problem statements, priorities, plans, and milestones with clear definitions of “done”; Communicate product direction to engineering, leadership, cross-functional stakeholders, customers, and prospects; Analyze competing context and code-search products through direct use to identify differentiators and gaps; Define operational and product metrics for index freshness, retrieval quality, agent task outcomes, adoption, retention, and unit economics; Represent the product externally by sharing roadmaps, publishing updates, speaking to developer audiences, and gathering community feedback; Partner with ML teams on model evaluation and platform teams on service scale, reliability, and cost; Collaborate with engineering and ML teams on indexing pipelines and retrieval quality; Work with Air, IDE, and Junie teams on integrations; Partner with marketing, developer advocacy, sales, and customer success on positioning and adoption; Define problem statements, set explicit trade-offs, and balance cost, latency, and freshness across the platform; Form and share a clear thesis for JetBrains Context, establish metrics and a roadmap, and document competitor evaluations; Help make JetBrains Context a deliberate choice for developers and organizations, improve agent answers, support enterprise governance and scale, and communicate its unique value.

Требования:

Have proven experience owning a complex developer, platform, or infrastructure product end to end, including strategy and roadmap; Be familiar with modern AI coding tools and agent workflows; Be able to work directly with engineering on retrieval behavior, APIs, data models, and integration surfaces; Be able to define metrics for quality-sensitive products and establish evaluation practices that maintain product standards; Have experience communicating a product externally through written content, talks, or community engagement; Have a well-argued point of view on the future of AI-first development and what agents need from a context layer; Be comfortable with technical depth across embeddings, retrieval quality, sub-agents, tool-calling, indexing costs, and API design; Use the product being built daily alongside competitors’ tools; Adapt communication to audiences ranging from staff engineers and enterprise architects to conference attendees; Take a data-informed approach combining telemetry, evaluation results, customer conversations, and market signals; Be comfortable with ambiguity and prefer defining a new category over copying an existing one; Nice to have: practical experience with search, retrieval, RAG, developer search, or static analysis at scale.

Условия:

Strong base salary; competitive pay reflecting skills and experience; Flexible work location, with the option to work from home or the office; Remote work abroad for up to 30 days per year; Extra time off; Medical insurance allowance for the candidate and family; Access to conferences, courses, and language classes; A hot meal or lunch allowance on workdays; Access to professional mental health services; On-site gym or sports club stipend; Company-wide celebrations and team gatherings; Some benefits may vary depending on location; Relocation possibilities can be discussed for candidates not based in the listed locations.