Staff Product Designer, Discord
Ventures
$220-275k
+Equity
Voice, video and text communication platform
Be an early applicant
Voice, video and text communication platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$220-275k
+Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Discord's mission is to help friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience designing consumer-facing products
- A passion for communication, media and gaming experiences
- Confidence in your ability to execute, in making design decisions, leading discussions, and communicating out to the wider organization
- Compelling storytelling skills across multiple mediums with consistent experience pitching and influencing design decisions across all levels (ie. executives)
- Strong, pro-active communication skills, forming ideas and presenting them to your cross-functional team to develop product strategy and prototypes
- A desire to deeply understand the "why" before defining the "how" and use it to develop a strategic product perspective, and vision
- A portfolio of work on which you were the primary designer leading large-scale, high impact projects across devices, and experience in leading designers or teams at an initiative level
- Experience working with, and contributing to a design system
What the job involves
- As a Staff Product Designer at Discord, you’ll play a key leadership role in shaping the future of talking and playing on Discord
- You’ll help define what design quality means within Discord, and push the boundaries of the core product experience
- The Ventures team is defining the core UX patterns of Discord, through a “show don’t tell” approach, and prototyping new ways to interact on Discord
- As part of this team, you’ll collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and Data Scientists
- Using your expertise in UX, UI, and prototyping, you’ll craft intuitive, visually compelling concepts that path new opportunities for growth for Discord
- You will craft the experiences that show new opportunities of growth, owning the execution and production quality, and up-level the quality of your work as you playtest with users
- You will Partner with the Head of Design to lead vision-setting initiatives for the team, 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 define and prototype the future with a deep understanding of the users and product space, acting as a thought leader in defining the product UX strategy
- You will proactively share your work with the broader design organization, developing and advocating for new ways of working, as well as creating workshops and spaces to learn new skill sets
- You will identify gaps or improvements for our design system and contribute UX and design patterns that address design debt, and are adopted across the design organization
- You will partner lead the team’s culture of communication through respectfully open and honest feedback, and encouraging others to be heard and understood
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 150 million active users in 19 million 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 Twitter, 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 benefits
- Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision
- 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
Company HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jason Citron
(CEO)Started out as a programmer at Papaya Studio, Stormfront Studios and Doublefine Productions. Also founded OpenFeint, a global mobile social gaming company.
Worked as a Software Engineer at Casamba and then Kabam. Was Lead Software Engineer at GREE International, and founded social network Guildwork.com in 2009.
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