Senior Staff Product Designer, Discord

• 8+ 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
• 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

Desirable

• As a Sr. Staff Designer and leader within the organization, you’ll actively define what design quality means within Discord Design, and collaborate across teams to define and execute future evolutions of the product
• On the Platform Ecosystems team, you will partner with UXR, Product Managers, Engineers, and Data Scientists on the Platform Ecosystems team to craft intuitive and delightful experiences for two critical audiences: App developers who bring delightful activities, bots, and games to the platform, and users who need intuitive ways to discover, and enjoy them with friends
• You will combine deep user empathy with a balance of UX, UI, prototyping, and visual design skills to enable frictionless experiences, and mentor a growing team of designers in doing the same
• You will craft the standard for visual caliber and quality within Discord, and on your team (Platform Ecosystems); identifying gaps or improvements for our design system and regularly making patterns that are adopted across the design organization
• You will lead vision-setting initiatives across teams, 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
• You will partner with the Platform Ecosystems Design Director to lead team rituals, introduce new ways of working, and eliminate design debt and inconsistencies within the product
• You will operate as a player-coach, owning the direction, design decisions, and quality bar for your own work, while providing mentorship and direct feedback in service of other’s work
• You will detangle and simplify the Apps user experience, using wire-frames, user journeys, prototypes to deliver intuitive product experiences that lead to higher App trial and re-engagement
• You will actively mold the design organization — collaborating with design leadership to own and deliver design-wide programs to establish new ways of working and craft standards