Staff Product Designer

Summary

Join Discord's Ventures team as a Staff Product Designer and play a key leadership role in shaping the future of talking and playing on the platform. You will craft experiences showcasing new growth opportunities, partner with the Head of Design on vision-setting initiatives, define and prototype future interactions, proactively share your work, identify design system improvements, and lead a culture of open communication. This role requires 7+ years of experience designing consumer-facing products, a passion for gaming, strong communication and storytelling skills, and a portfolio showcasing leadership on large-scale projects. The position offers a competitive salary, equity, and benefits. Discord is a multiplatform, multigenerational, and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen friendships around games and shared interests.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience designing consumer-facing products
• A passion for communication, media and gaming experiences
• Confidence in your ability to execute, 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 prototypes
• A desire to deeply understand the "why" before defining the "how" and use it to develop a strategic product perspective, and vision
• A portfolio of work on which you were the primary designer leading large-scale, high impact projects across devices, and experience in leading designers or teams at an initiative level
• Experience working with, and contributing to a design system

Responsibilities

• Craft the experiences that show new opportunities of growth, owning the execution and production quality, and up-level the quality of your work as you playtest with users
• Partner with the Head of Design to lead vision-setting initiatives for the team, 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 prototype the future with a deep understanding of the users and product space, acting as a thought leader in defining the product UX 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
• Partner lead the team’s culture of communication through respectfully open and honest feedback, and encouraging others to be heard and understood

Benefits

• Equity
• Benefits