Growth manager (JetBrains AI)

<p>At JetBrains, we’re building an AI-native platform for software development that connects developer workflows, team-level collaboration, and organizational control into a single coherent system. This platform will serve as the execution and governance layer for AI-driven development, deeply integrated with developer tools but designed to work across teams, products, and environments. This is a long-term strategic investment for JetBrains and a key pillar of our vision for the future of software development.</p> <p>We’re looking for a Growth Manager to own the acquisition, onboarding, and activation journey of JetBrains AI for teams and organizations.</p> <p>In this role, you’ll help users discover JetBrains AI through JetBrains product surfaces, clarify its value in their development workflows, and reach meaningful product usage as quickly as possible.</p> <p>You’ll work on product entry points, trial starts, demo and sandbox experiences, onboarding flows, setup journeys, guided education, and activation experiments that help the right audience become active JetBrains AI users.</p> <h3><strong>Key responsibilities:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Own the acquisition, onboarding, and activation journey of JetBrains AI for teams and organizations.</li> <li>Define, measure, and improve the path from relevant product entry points to meaningful product usage.</li> <li>Optimize acquisition flows across JetBrains entry points, including IDEs, desktop products, plugins, account flows, contextual prompts, and others.</li> <li>Create and improve self-service paths into JetBrains AI, including trial starts, guided demos, sandbox experiences, interactive walkthroughs, and setup flows.</li> <li>Design and iterate on onboarding, guided product education, first-run experiences, contextual prompts, empty states, and other moments that help users discover value.</li> <li>Identify friction points across entry, signup, setup, onboarding, trial, and first-use flows, and turn them into clear product opportunities.</li> <li>Lead experiments aimed at improving acquisition conversion, onboarding completion, trial-to-active conversion, activation, and early repeated usage.</li> <li>Partner with the Marketing department on acquisition journeys, campaign-to-product continuity, life cycle flows, and the transition from marketing touchpoints to product experience.</li> <li>Partner with monetization specialists on trial experience, upgrade prompts, usage limits, and commercial constraints.</li> <li>Work closely with design, engineering, analytics, research, marketing, monetization, and other product teams to ship measurable improvements to the early user journey.</li> <li>Establish clear growth hypotheses, prioritize experiments, analyze results, and turn learnings into product and business decisions.</li> </ul> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <h3><strong>We’ll be happy to have you on our team if you:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Have experience in onboarding, activation, and driving product-led growth in developer tools, SaaS, or AI products.</li> <li>Have worked on improving acquisition-to-activation funnels, product entry points, onboarding flows, trial experiences, or new-user experiences.</li> <li>Understand how to connect marketing touchpoints with product-side acquisition into a coherent user journey.</li> <li>Are comfortable using product analytics, funnels, cohorts, segmentation, and qualitative insights to understand user behavior.</li> <li>Have experience designing, running, and interpreting product experiments.</li> <li>Can translate ambiguous growth problems into focused hypotheses, product changes, and measurable outcomes.</li> <li>Understand how to help users reach value quickly without relying on heavy sales assistance or manual onboarding.</li> <li>Have strong UX judgment and care about reducing friction, clarifying value, and building trust with users.</li> <li>Can collaborate effectively with engineering, design, analytics, marketing, monetization, research, and other product teams.</li> <li>Communicate clearly and can align stakeholders around funnel insights, growth priorities, and experiment results.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>We’ll be especially thrilled if you:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Have experience with AI-powered products, developer tools, IDEs, DevOps platforms, or software engineering workflows.</li> <li>Have designed acquisition, onboarding, or activation experiences for complex technical products.</li> <li>Have worked on product-led acquisition from owned product surfaces, such as in-app prompts, contextual entry points, trial starts, demos, sandboxes, and interactive walkthroughs.</li> <li>Understand product-led growth in B2B or prosumer products, especially where individual users can influence wider adoption.</li> <li>Are familiar with behavioral analytics tools, experimentation platforms, funnel analysis, cohort analysis, and activation modeling.</li> <li>Have a strong intuition for developer audiences and understand their expectations around control, transparency, low friction, and practical value.</li> </ul> <h3><strong><br>Why join JetBrains?&nbsp;</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Strong base salary. We offer competitive pay that reflects your skills and experience.</li> <li>Flexible work location. Enjoy the freedom to work from home or from the office.</li> <li>Remote work. Spend up to 30 days per year working remotely from abroad.</li> <li>Extra time off. More days to relax, recharge, and do the things you love.</li> <li>Medical insurance allowance. Enjoy peace of mind for you and your family</li> <li>Learning and development opportunities. Access to conferences, courses, and language classes.</li> <li>Language classes. Pick up the local language or sharpen your English skills.</li> <li>Fuel your day. Enjoy a hot meal or receive a lunch allowance on workdays.</li> <li>Mental health support. To help you feel your best, we provide easy access to professional mental health services.</li> <li>Sports benefit. Enjoy an on-site gym or sports club stipend.</li> <li>Internal events. Join company-wide celebrations and team gatherings.</li> </ul> <p>*Some benefits may vary depending on location.</p> <p>x</p> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">#LI-KL1&nbsp;</span></p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>We are an equal opportunity employer</strong><br><br>We know great ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. That’s why we do our best to create an open and inclusive workplace – one that welcomes everyone regardless of their background, identity, religion, age, accessibility needs, or orientation.</p> <p><em data-stringify-type="italic">We process the data provided in your job application in accordance with the <a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/privacy/privacy-recruitment/">Recruitment Privacy Policy.</a></em></p></div>