Product Manager, Discord
Core Product
$160-180k
+ Equity
Voice, video and text communication platform
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Voice, video and text communication platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$160-180k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of product management experience building and shipping consumer products
- Curiosity and empathy for Discord users, with a deep understanding of gaming culture and online communities
- Strong ability to gather & interpret data, make tradeoffs, and measure impact using both quantitative and qualitative signals
- Experience with A/B testing and experimentation frameworks
- Demonstrated technical proficiency and effectiveness working closely with engineers on user-facing products at high scale
- Experience collaborating with multiple internal partners at once and effectively balancing competing needs, priorities, and constraints
Desirable
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience building and growing consumer products, especially gaming, messaging, community, or social networking products
- Entrepreneurial experience
What the job involves
- The Core Product team at Discord is responsible for creating exceptional experiences that drive deeper engagement with our users and provide a strong product foundation for other teams to build upon
- We’re looking for a Product Manager to join the Core Product organization and lead our Diamond initiative
- This track focuses on improving the usability, cohesiveness, and effectiveness of Discord’s core experiences and systems to support multiple company strategic objectives (including growth, user retention, and monetization)
- Guide the product philosophy, vision, and roadmap for Diamond, covering shared surfaces and systems like voice, messaging, settings, app architecture, and more
- Lead cross-functional execution with a team of Engineering, Design, and Data Science to ship impactful improvements to Discord’s core systems and surfaces
- Partner with other product teams across Discord to align on priorities and ensure foundational improvements drive higher-quality user experiences and more efficient product development
- Independently make decisions for your product area, gain buy-in from leadership, and act as a momentum catalyst for your execution team
- Clearly communicate roadmaps, priorities, experiments and decisions across a wide spectrum of audiences from partner teams to executive levels
- Define and own performance against key engagement metrics
Our take
Discord is an industry giant in the chat app space. The free platform has rapidly become one of the most popular services in the sector since being founded in 2015. It counts over 200M active users in 19M communities, successfully expanding beyond its original focus on video game players to become a broader social networking app and public forum.
Discord's userbase has grown rapidly as remote work has become the norm and a new generation of internet users has come online, attracted to its youthful presentation and plethora of gaming and social tools. It has since fended off takeover bids from Microsoft and interest from other giants such as Amazon and X, and has grown into a profitable company, funded by optional subscription fees and commissions from sales through the platform.
Discord’s remarkable growth, however, is not without obstacles. The company faces competition from deep-pocketed giants like Facebook, and regulatory concerns from those worried about the platform’s relatively light chat moderation. However, the company has the resources and expertise to adapt. For example, the acquisition of harassment detection software company Sentropy will go a long way towards placating the concerns of critics, as will the 2024 acquisition of teen app Gas used to give anonymous compliments to friends. All of these purchases are part of Discord's move to expand out of its mostly gaming-focused customer base.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Sep 2021
$500m
SERIES H
Dec 2020
$100m
SERIES H
Total funding: $979.3m
Company HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Stanislav Vishnevskiy
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer at Casamba and then Kabam. Also worked as a Lead Software Engineer at GREE International, and founded social network Guildwork.com in 2009.
Humam Sakhnini
(CEO)Humam joined the Discord team in 2025 as CEO. Prior to this, he was the VIce Chairman and Chief Strategy & Talent Officer at Activision Blizzard as well as the CFO/President at King. He also spent 8 years at McKinsey & Company as a Partner.
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