Staff Product Designer
Job Description
Discord is your place to talk. Whether you’re part of a school club, gaming group, worldwide art community, or just a handful of friends that want to spend time together, millions of people use Discord every day to create connections, hang out, and talk.
As a product designer, you’ll be involved with the full product development process from end-to-end, from brainstorming to launch. You’ll use a balance of product, interaction, and visual design skills within the area of Discord that you will end up building. If you’re interested in joining a passionate team of designers that are designing features that will be used by millions of people across the world, come help us do that.
What you’ll be doing
- You will form part of our growing and matrixed EPAD Organization that includes Engineering, Product, Analytics and Design function.
- You will partner with engineers, product managers and other cross-functional peers to oversee the user experience from idea to market.
- You will present and communicate your designs to the team and the greater organization to build consensus around your concepts.
- 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 product peers.
- You will meaningfully contribute, maintain and commit to our Design System library.
Bonus Points
- Interface animation know-how.
- Experience with, or deep knowledge of CSS, JavaScript, or React.
- Experience working on, or even marketing SAAS style products. #buildbelonging #LI-SC1
- New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $175,000/year + equity and benefits
Skills Needed
- You have 8+ years of experience designing modern consumer-focused products.
- A portfolio of work on which you were the primary designer leading large-scale, high impact projects for both desktop and mobile.
- You have meaningfully worked on, or with a design system.
- You proactively form ideas and present them to your cross-functional team to develop strategy and roadmaps.
- You are seen as a mentor for other designers and provide feedback and find ways to improve their work.
- You use your years of experience to quickly move projects forward, applying domain expertise, establishing principles, and occasionally conducting research.
- You collaboratively guide the vision for the product and achieve it through design explorations, documentation, and presentations.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures)
- Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
- 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
- Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
- Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
- Volunteer time off
- A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
- Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees
*Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $140,000/year + equity and benefits
*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).
