Senior Technical Product Manager (Kotlin AI Value Stream)

At Kotlin, we have always wanted to create a pragmatic language that makes programming fun and productive. With the appearance of LLMs and coding agents, we have new ways to achieve our vision, and that means that AI tools of today and tomorrow should play natively with Kotlin.

We see a huge opportunity for Kotlin to win over programming ecosystems by leveraging AI. Kotlin is uniquely positioned to be the tool of choice for AI-generated apps. It is modern, type-safe, optimized for readability, and, most importantly, Multiplatform—targeting both Android and iOS, Web, Desktop, and backend use cases.

We are looking for a Senior Technical Product Manager who will guide the team on its journey to make Kotlin the language that plays best with AI tools, in the use cases where it is really demanded, and build the most efficient and cost-effective solutions.

This role is about more than building the tools itself; it’s about inspiring an ecosystem to evolve. You will lead research and experimentation efforts that enhance Kotlin’s presence in AI-driven workflows, ensuring it remains the language of choice for modern multiplatform and multitarget development.

There are many challenges on the way—ensuring that frontier models generate idiomatic Kotlin, presence in benchmarks and volume of code in datasets, integration with agentic tools, building MCPs, and evaluating how new language features affect the quality of code generation.

In this role, you will:

• Discover use cases for the benchmarks to be built
• Built a system of evaluations for the most important use cases and business-related metrics (e.g, quality of code, number of used tokens)
• Lead the continuous experimentation pipeline to define the most efficient ways to improve the quality of generated Kotlin in different use cases
• Own the prioritization process for benchmarks/evals and solution development
• Peer to peer collaborate with Kotlin Core teams to convert prototypes into high-quality solutions
• Negotiate with external partners
• Create internal and external visibility through blog posts, talks, and technical previews

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has previous experience in software development in any of the application development languages
• Possesses broad technical knowledge and knows how the backend and frontend development lifecycle is structured
• Knows how CI/CD infrastructure and AI/ML Evaluation pipelines are set up
• Have 5+ years of experience in technical product management, working on AI products or other complex technical domains (e.g., frameworks, languages)
• Have hands-on experience developing product metrics and making data-driven decisions
• Are comfortable reading/writing code, using the command line, and version control systems
• Is a hands-on leader who uses the technology, rather than directing from slides
• Can communicate persuasively to both technical peers and executives

We’d be especially thrilled if you have:

• Experience in writing own MCP servers and benchmarks for LLMs (personal projects are also considered)
• Hands-on experience in developing with Kotlin
• Degree in computer science and/or machine learning

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