Product Designer - Core Product

Employment Type: [Not Specified] Location Type: San Francisco-based only (San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate) Salary: [Not Specified]

Position Overview

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.

Our mission on Core Product is to improve both the quality and depth of Discord’s core product value - which is to make Discord the best place to hang out online and play games with friends. Millions of people use Discord every day to find belonging, create connections, and talk… and we are the center of this.

Our work on Core Product focuses on improving and simplifying the foundations of the Discord experience at large. This could be streamlining how users customize their settings, to the way they express themselves over text, voice, and video. You’ll be part of a multi-faceted team flexing across surface area ownership, and acting as a guardian on our core foundations.

As a product designer, you'll be involved with the full end-to-end product development process, from brainstorming to launch. You'll use a balance of strategic thinking, product principles, systems design, and strong visual design skills to iterate and innovate on the Discord product. 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 join us.

Responsibilities

• Be a design lead without a cross-functional product team, partnering with engineers, product managers, and other cross-functional peers to oversee the user experience from idea to market.
• Form part of our growing and “EPAD” Organization that includes Engineering, Product, Analytics, and Design functions.
• Create wire-frames, beautiful mockups, amazing prototypes, and help implement your designs to pixel perfection.
• Act as the quality leader within your team, checking all of your work as it is built and ensuring it reflects your vision perfectly.
• Manage your own timelines/deliverables and exercise solid judgment in your own priorities.
• Be considered a leader within your immediate team, actively influencing the strategy and scope of your work.
• Collaborate with designers across organizations in sprints to ensure scalable and consistent user experiences.
• Proactively present and communicate your designs to organizational leadership, your immediate team, and your design peers to garner feedback and build consensus around your concepts.
• Routinely share work with the design discipline and executive leadership, acting as the domain expert over your product area.
• Test, learn, and iterate on everything you do alongside product peers.
• Meaningfully use, maintain, and routinely contribute components towards our Design System library.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience designing modern consumer-focused products.
• Experience as the design lead of multiple product teams.
• Highly proficient using Figma.
• Proficiency with a high-fidelity prototyping tool (e.g., Protopie, Framer, Origami).
• High level of skill at crafting high-quality visual designs with an eye for creating delight in every product experience.
• A portfolio of work where you were the primary designer contributing to projects for at least both desktop and mobile.
• Frequent personal use of Discord.

Application Instructions

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Company Information

Discord is a communication platform used by over 200 million people monthly, with a strong focus on gaming. Our mission is to make Discord the best place to hang out online and play games with friends. We are a growing company focused on improving the core product experience for millions of users worldwide.