Lead Product Designer (YouTrack)

Responsibilities

• YouTrack handles serious complexity – agile boards, backlogs, knowledge bases, helpdesks, and deeply customizable workflows – across teams from two-person startups to global enterprises. We’re at a point where the category's oldest assumptions are worth reconsidering. Issue tracking has relied on the same foundational…
• Lead Product Designer to shape where project management goes next while keeping a massive, mature surface area coherent, legible, and a pleasant to use. In this role, you’ll lead a small design team of two designers, own the overall design quality bar across the product, and act as an individual contributor on our…
• Day to day, you will
• 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.
• Success means earning the trust of your team and peers through sound interaction choices and clear systemic improvements. You will establish a reliable critique rhythm and a structured way of working that helps your designers grow. Within your first few months, delivering clear patterns for our AI capabilities, paying…

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