Senior Staff Product Designer

Summary

Join Discord's Platform Ecosystems team as a Staff Designer and contribute to the evolution of our product. You will define design quality, collaborate with various teams (UXR, Product Managers, Engineers, Data Scientists), and craft intuitive experiences for app developers and users. Lead vision-setting initiatives, influence the product roadmap, and mentor junior designers. Share your work, identify design system improvements, and simplify user experiences. Partner with the Design Director to foster a culture of open communication. This role requires 7+ years of experience designing consumer-facing products and leading design teams.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience designing consumer-facing products
• Experience in leading designers or teams at an initiative level
• Confidence in your ability to execute, and coach others in making design decisions, leading discussions, and communicating out to the wider organization
• Compelling storytelling skills across multiple mediums with consistent experience pitching and influencing design decisions across all levels (ie. executives)
• 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
• A high level of design craft, and a commitment to maintaining a high bar for design implementation as you see work through from design iterations to detailed documentation, and QA
• A portfolio of work on which you were the primary designer leading large-scale, high impact projects for both desktop and mobile
• Experience working with, and contributing to a design system

Responsibilities

• Craft the standard for visual caliber and quality on Platform Ecosystems; own execution and production quality, and proactively identify opportunities to uplevel the quality of your work in production as you playtest
• Partner with the Platform Ecosystems Design Director to lead vision-setting initiatives on Platform Ecosystems, bringing diverse product ideas into one cohesive vision with tactical design deliverables, and regularly present and communicate your designs to peers and executives to gain alignment
• Define and influence Platform Ecosystem’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
• Proactively share your work with the broader design organization, developing and advocating for new ways of working, as well as creating workshops and spaces to learn new skill sets
• 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
• Simplify the user experience of playing an Activity, using wire-frames, user journeys, prototypes to deliver intuitive product experiences that lead to higher Activity trial and re-engagement
• Partner with the Platform Ecosystems Design Director to influence your team’s culture of communication through respectfully open and honest feedback, and encouraging others to be heard and understood

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience and passion for improving developer experiences
• Casual or committed gamer

Benefits

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $205,000 to $225,500+ equity + benefits