Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join Discord's Core Product team as a Product Designer and contribute to the evolution of our platform used by over 200 million people monthly. You will be part of the "Diamond" team, focusing on improving existing features and user experiences. This role involves the entire product development lifecycle, from ideation to launch and beyond. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and researchers to create intuitive and engaging designs. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of experience in consumer product design across multiple platforms and a passion for gaming. This is a remote position.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience developing and leading design on central end-to-end consumer products across a variety of platforms (mobile, desktop, console, etc)
• Additionally, you have been the design lead for a squad, feature, initiative, and team and are comfortable making design decisions, leading discussion, and communicating out to the wider organization
• A passion for video games and gaming experiences
• Expert-level experience with Figma and some high-fidelity prototyping tool (ex: Protopie, Framer, Origami, etc)
• Strong product thinking and strategic vision, with the ability to translate complex business requirements into intuitive user experiences
• Adept at articulating the rationale behind design decisions and their alignment with broader product goals
• Mastery of design craft, including typography, color theory, layout principles, and interaction design
• Committed to pixel-perfect execution and have a keen eye for subtle details that enhance user experience
• You have a high level of skill at crafting high quality visual designs and have an eye for creating delight in every product experience
• Compelling storytelling skills across multiple mediums with consistent experience pitching and influencing design decisions across peers, immediate team members and organization leadership
• Strong, pro-active communication skills, forming ideas and presenting them to your cross-functional team to develop product strategy and roadmaps
• A desire to deeply understand the "why" before defining the "how" and use it to develop a strategic product perspective, and vision
• Proficiency in data analysis and interpretation, with the ability to leverage quantitative and qualitative data to inform design decisions and measure the impact of design changes on key metrics
• Experience working with, and actively contributing to a design system with components of sub-system languages

Responsibilities

• 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
• Create wire-frames, beautiful mockups, amazing prototypes, and help implement your designs to pixel perfection
• Quality check all of your work as it is built, ensuring it reflects your vision perfectly
• Own the bar for craft, execution and production quality for your immediate product team, and proactively identify opportunities to uplevel the quality of your work in production as you playtest
• Actively influence your team’s roadmap with a deep understanding of the product space, acting as a thought leader with your XFN leads in defining the “how” of the product strategy
• Present your designs to the team and the greater organization to build consensus and drive alignment around your work
• Identify gaps or improvements for our design system and contribute UX and design patterns that address design debt, and are adopted across the design organization
• Be an active peer and participant in your organization’s design team and culture, sharing/contributing often and proactively in critiques and in general channels to encourage a culture of open feedback and active support

Benefits

• The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,000 + equity + benefits
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