Product Lead / Entrepreneur in Residence (Project Bonsai)

📋 Description

• Own the product strategy and validate the strongest hypotheses.
• Run continuous discovery by talking to developers to map workflows.
• Define the initial scope, ICP, and top-priority scenarios.
• Track the ecosystem by watching adjacent tools and research.
• Collaborate with engineering to maintain focus in an early-stage setting.

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on product ownership or equivalent end-to-end discovery & delivery.
• Technical background with complex systems; production coding a plus.
• Comfort turning unclear problems into concrete plans.
• Zero-to-one exposure—early product discovery or first adoption.
• Developer-tools/IDE/workflow domain experience.
• Familiarity with AI agents and AI-driven tooling.

🎁 Benefits

• Foundational work at the intersection of programming languages and AI.
• Work on language design, tooling, and AI agents.
• Real ownership—own strategy, closer to a founder.
• JetBrains culture: startup autonomy with long-term mindset.