Senior Product Designer (Engagement)

• Our work on Engagement focuses on improving and simplifying the foundations of the Discord experience at large. This could be streamlining how users customize their settings, to the way they express themselves over text, voice, and video
• You’ll be part of a multi-faceted team flexing across surface area ownership, and acting as a guardian on our core foundations
• As a product designer, you’ll be involved with the full end-to-end product development process, from brainstorming to launch
• You’ll use a balance of strategic thinking, product principles, systems design, and strong visual design skills to iterate and innovate on the Discord product
• You will be a design lead without a cross-functional product team, partnering with engineers, product managers and other cross-functional peers to oversee the user experience from idea to market
• You will form part of our growing and “EPAD” Organization that includes Engineering, Product, Analytics and Design functions
• You will create wire-frames, beautiful mockups, amazing prototypes, and help implement your designs to pixel perfection. You will be considered the quality leader within your team, checking all of your work as it it built and ensuring it reflects your vision perfectly
• You will manage your own timelines/deliverables and exercise solid judgment in your own priorities
• You’ll be considered a leader within your immediate team, actively influencing the strategy and scope of your work
• You will be collaborating with designers across organizations in sprints to ensure scalable and consistent user experiences (that isn’t shipping an org chart)
• You will proactively present and communicate your designs to organizational leadership, your immediate team and your design peers to garner feedback and build consensus around your concepts. You’ll also routinely share work with the design discipline and executive leadership – acting as the domain expert over your product area
• You will test, learn, and iterate on everything you do alongside product peers
• You will meaningfully use, maintain and routinely contribute components towards our Design System library

Benefits

• Discord HQ: At Discord, we believe great work can happen anywhere, whether in person or virtually. Our flexible work model empowers our people to choose where they work best: at home, in one of our offices like our San Francisco HQ, or a mix of both.
• Grow together: Look forward to developing both professionally and personally alongside your colleagues at Discord. All of our managers go through a leadership program, and we offer enriching trainings for everyone. No matter what your interests or skills are, there’s a place on our platform for you to find and build belonging.
• Money matters: Discord strives to offer fair and competitive compensation packages, including equity. You’ll have room to grow and be rewarded based on your contributions and impact at the company. Take advantage of our retirement offerings (including 401k matching in the US) to meet your financial goals.
• Health benefits; At Discord, we health-care about you! We offer medical, dental, vision, reproductive, gender-affirming, and mental healthcare to our employees.
• Family support: Spend some quality time with the next generation with 12+ weeks parental leave, as well as fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.
• R&R: Stay refreshed with four weeks of PTO, 16 paid holidays each year including a week off for the winter holidays, and flexible sick time (which includes mental health days).
• Wellness on us: Take advantage of a $375 quarterly stipend for your gym membership or other activities to keep you feeling great.
• Giving back: Whatever social cause you’re passionate about, take a day (or two) off to make an impact. While you’re at it, take advantage of $1,000/year in donation matching to charitable organizations!- You collaboratively guide the vision for the product and achieve it through design explorations, documentation, and presentations
• Ownership mindset with a bias towards action, helping to drive projects and decisions forward. Maintains low ego with a focus on progress and growth
• You have experience working with a design system/library
• Highly proficient using Figma and some high-fidelity prototyping tool (ex: Protopie, Framer, Origami, etc). You have a high level of skill at crafting high quality visual designs and have an eye for creating delight in every product experience
• A portfolio of work on which you were the primary designer contributing to projects for at least both desktop and mobile
• A working understanding and curiosity of AI-assisted design workflows — from ideation and prototyping to generative UI — and the design judgment to know when AI output needs a human hand before it ships
• You proactively form ideas and can communicate them with others through varying formats (documents, prototypes, presentations)
• Frequent personal use of Discord, with preference towards those with direct use of the gaming space/experience
• 5+ years of experience designing modern consumer-focused products, and have been the design lead of multiple product teams