Discord is hiring a
Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join us in our mission to make Discord the best place to hang out online with friends! As a product designer, you will report to our growing Product Design team and be involved in the full end-to-end product development process. You'll use strategic thinking, product principles, systems design, and strong visual design skills to iterate and innovate on the Discord product.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years experience designing and shipping a web/app product for a variety of devices and platforms
• You have been the design lead for a squad, feature, initiative, or end-to-end project and are comfortable making design decisions, leading discussion, and communicating out to the wider organization
• You are an active design collaborator - giving feedback in critique, sharing knowledge, and supporting and empowering your design teammates
• You have strong product thinking and vision. You're more concerned with the 'why' than the 'how
• You’re excited to dig into experiment data to help inform design iterations and whether something should ship
• You have a high level of design craft, and are committed to maintaining a high bar for design implementation
• You have expert level experience with Figma

Responsibilities

• You will embed within a product squad and partner with engineers, product managers, researchers, and data scientists to oversee the user experience of a product from concept to launch — and then continue to improve it after release
• You will understand company and team goals focused on revenue generation and drive concepts and decisions in service of reaching those goals and milestones
• You will present your designs to the team and the greater organization to build consensus and drive alignment around your work
• You will create wire-frames, beautiful mockups, amazing prototypes, and help implement your designs to pixel perfection
• You will test, learn, and iterate on everything you do alongside partners
• You will help maintain and commit to our Design pattern library
• You will be an active, participatory member of the Discord Design team, and help foster a culture of design

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience or willingness to mentor other designers
• Experience building design systems
• Rich prototyping experience
• Casual or committed gamer
• Interface animation know-how
• CSS, JavaScript, or React skills