Senior Product Designer, Engagement

Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we're focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.

As a Senior Product Designer, Engagement, you'll be part of a multi-faceted team flexing across surface area ownership, and acting as a guardian on our core foundations.

You'll be involved with the full end-to-end product development process, from brainstorming to launch, using a balance of strategic thinking, product principles, systems design, and strong visual design skills to iterate and innovate on the Discord product.

Responsibilities:

• 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 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.
• 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 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.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience designing modern consumer-focused products, and have been the design lead of multiple product teams.
• Highly proficient using Figma and some high-fidelity prototyping tool (ex: Protopie, Framer, Origami, etc).
• A working understanding and curiosity of AI-assisted design workflows.
• A portfolio of work on which you were the primary designer contributing to projects for at least both desktop and mobile.
• Frequent personal use of Discord, with preference towards those with direct use of the gaming space/experience.
• You proactively form ideas and can communicate them with others through varying formats.
• 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.
• You have experience working with a design system/library.

Benefits: The US base salary range for this full-time position is $188,000 to $211,500 + equity + benefits.