Content Technologist, Discord
Temporary
$180-202.5k
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Voice, video and text communication platform
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Voice, video and text communication platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$180-202.5k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in UX writing, content design, or product copywriting
- Portfolio demonstrating clear, user-centered product copy and systems thinking
- Technical skills to build tools and implement linters—you're comfortable working with code and AI
- Strong documentation skills with experience creating guidelines that multiple teams use
- Understanding of accessibility and inclusive language practices
- Understanding of localization and translation best practices
- Track record of influencing and collaborating across design, product, engineering, and cross-functional partners
- Experience working within or contributing to design systems or a guidelines team
What the job involves
- 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
- The Design Foundations team is looking for a Content Technologist to establish Discord's product voice and build the tools, guidance, and processes that help everyone write great copy. You'll define our copy standards, create an AI-powered writing assistant, build tools to catch issues before they ship, and partner with teams on high-stakes product moments
- This role will report to the Design Foundations Product Design Director
- Your work will strengthen user trust, reduce product risk, and ensure the words our millions of users see every day are as intentional and polished as the product itself
- Define and document copy and tone guidance within Mana, our Design System, creating the foundation for consistent, inclusive, and accessible language across Discord
- Collaborate with Brand, Legal, and Policy teams to align product language with company standards and values
- Build an AI-powered tool that enables teams to write their own copy following established guidelines, scaling your impact across the organization
- Build tools to catch non-compliant copy in code and suggests improvements, preventing issues before they reach users
- Partner with design and product teams to write and review critical in-product copy for major initiatives
- Establish a review process that catches copy-related risks before launch
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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