Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

Summary

Join Discord's Design Systems team as a Design Systems Engineer and contribute to the creation and maintenance of the design system used by all product designers, engineers, and product managers. You will leverage your interaction, visual, and prototyping skills to create a coherent look and feel for our desktop and mobile experiences. This role requires experience contributing to systems projects, collaborating effectively with cross-functional partners, and communicating design decisions clearly. You will be responsible for maintaining components, patterns, and templates, collaborating with designers and engineers, and supporting the adoption of system elements. The ideal candidate possesses a systems mindset, a high craft bar, and a collaborative spirit. Discord offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years experience designing and shipping a web/app product for a variety of devices and platforms
• Experience working on design systems (creation, documentation & support)
• Highly proficient using Figma, using styles, variables and components
• Proficiency with technical UX writing
• Experience with inclusive design / WCAG
• Ownership mindset with a bias towards action, helping to drive projects and decisions forward
• High craft bar and attention to detail in user experience, visual design, interaction design, and prototyping
• Ability communicate complex problems and experiences simply, and to know when a user journey, wireframe, deck, prototype, or design specification will be most effective in doing so
• Experience designing for mature products — against visions, and through incremental improvements
• Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, cross-functional team

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and maintain components, patterns, and templates
• Collaborate with product designers & engineers to ensure successful contributions
• Support the adoption of system elements by sharing your work and presenting it cross-functionally
• Assist in migrating and deprecating legacy elements
• Develop clear, accessible documentation and tutorials to support and educate users of the system
• Provide support and guidance in customer support channels
• Create detailed mocks and prototypes to communicate your ideas effectively, leveraging user feedback and data to guide decisions
• Contribute fresh ideas and support the team in evolving the system towards next-generation experiences

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with version control and Github
• Technical writing experience, familiarity with markdown
• Experience creating Figma Tooling
• Casual or committed gamer

Benefits

• Equity
• Benefits