Product Designer, Core Product

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 Core Product is to improve both the quality and depth of Discord’s core product value - which is to make Discord the best place to hang out online and play games with friends. Millions of people use Discord every day to find belonging, create connections, and talk… and this is most notably through our Voice & Video experience.

Our work on Core Product focuses on improving and simplifying the foundations of the Discord experience at large. This could be streamlining how users customize their settings, to the way they express themselves over text, voice, and video. This position would begin on our Voice & Video team, supporting one of our most critical features at the company, allowing people to hang out and play games together synchronously online.

As a product designer, you'll be involved with the full end-to-end product development process, from brainstorming to launch. You'll use a balance of strategic thinking, product principles, systems design, and strong visual design skills to iterate and innovate on the Discord product. If you're interested in joining a passionate team of designers that are designing features that will be used by millions of people across the world, come join us.

What You'll Be Doing

• You will support a lead designer in creating a larger ecosystem for our voice and video experience, and partner with engineers, product managers and other cross-functional peers to oversee the user experience from idea to market.
• You will form part of our growing and “EPAD” Organization that includes Engineering, Product, Analytics and Design functions.
• You will create wire-frames, beautiful mockups, amazing prototypes, and help implement your designs to pixel perfection. You will also quality check all of your work as it it built, ensuring it reflects your vision perfectly.
• You will be collaborating with our Core Tech Audio & Video partners to design functionality for our users to tailor and improve their voice and video experience.
• You will present and communicate your designs to the team and your design peers to build consensus around your concepts.
• You will test, learn, and iterate on everything you do alongside product peers.
• You will meaningfully use, maintain and commit towards our Design System library.

What you should have

• You have 2 years of experience designing modern consumer-focused products. We’re open to more entry-level candidates with strong talent.
• Highly proficient using Figma and some high-fidelity prototyping tool (ex: Protopie, Framer, Origami, etc). You have a high level of skill at crafting high quality visual designs and have an eye for creating delight in every product experience.
• A portfolio of work on which you were the primary designer contributing to projects for both desktop and mobile.
• Frequent personal use of Discord, and are passionate about the gaming space/experience.
• You proactively form ideas and can communicate them with others through varying formats (documents, prototypes, presentations).
• You collaboratively guide the vision for the product and achieve it through design explorations, documentation, and presentations.
• Ownership mindset with a bias towards action, helping to drive projects and decisions forward. Maintains low ego with a focus on progress and growth.
• You have experience working with a design system/library.

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The US base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 to $180,000 equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or 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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