Senior Product Designer, Developer Platform

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 the Developer Platform Team is to help game studios succeed by creating meaningful experiences for players. As a B2B2C team, we serve two key audiences. For game studios, we build smart integrations and intuitive tools that make it easy for developers, community managers, and marketers to connect with players and bring the best of Discord into their games. For players, we enhance on-platform experiences that deepen their connection to the games they love—and make it easier to build lasting friendships through play.

While this role will eventually support experiences for both audiences, your initial focus will be on the game studio experience. We’re looking for a designer who’s excited to shape the future of our tools and offerings for the developers, community managers, and marketers who bring games to life. You’ll design cohesive, empowering, and delightful experiences across every touchpoint studios have with Discord—from onboarding and documentation to dashboards, self-serve portals, Official Game Communities, and beyond.

As a product designer, you’ll work across the full product development cycle—from early exploration through to launch and iteration. You’ll apply a thoughtful blend of user empathy, systems thinking, and visual craft to solve meaningful problems for businesses and players alike. If you’re energized by complex challenges, passionate about the developer experience, and excited to help define how studios build with Discord, we’d love to hear from you.

This position is US-based only. We are seeking candidates located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

What You'll Be Doing

• You will embed within a product squad and partner with engineers, product managers, researchers, and data scientists to oversee the user experience of a product from concept to launch — and then continue to improve it after release.
• You will create wire-frames, mockups, prototypes, and help implement your designs to pixel perfection. You will also quality check all of your work as it is built, ensuring it reflects your vision.
• You will own the bar for craft, execution and production quality for your immediate product team, and proactively identify opportunities to uplevel the quality of your work in production as you playtest.
• You will actively influence your team’s roadmap with a deep understanding of the product space, acting as a thought leader with your XFN leads in defining the “how” of the product strategy.
• You will present your designs to the team and the greater organization to drive alignment around your work
• 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 be an active peer and participant in your organization’s design team and culture, sharing/contributing often and proactively in critiques and in general channels to encourage a culture of open feedback and active support.

What you should have

• 5+ years of experience developing and leading design on central end-to-end consumer products across a variety of platforms (web, mobile, desktop, console, etc). Additionally, you have been the design lead for a squad, feature, initiative, and team and are comfortable making design decisions, leading discussion, and communicating out to the wider organization.
• A passion for quality developer experiences.
• You have expert-level experience with Figma and a high-fidelity prototyping tool (ex: Protopie, Framer, Origami, etc).
• Strong product thinking and strategic vision, with the ability to translate complex business requirements into intuitive user experiences. Adept at articulating the rationale behind design decisions and their alignment with broader product goals.
• Mastery of design craft, including typography, color theory, layout principles, and interaction design. Committed to pixel-perfect execution and have a keen eye for subtle details that enhance user experience. You have a high level of skill at crafting high quality visual designs and have an eye for creating delight in every product experience.
• Compelling storytelling skills across multiple mediums with consistent experience pitching and influencing design decisions across peers, immediate team members and organization leadership.
• 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. Proficiency in data analysis and interpretation, with the ability to leverage quantitative and qualitative data to inform design decisions and measure the impact of design changes on key metrics.
• Experience working with, and actively contributing to a design system with components of sub-system languages.

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The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,000 + equity + benefits.

Why Discord? 

Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!

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