Discord · 3 months ago
Senior Product Design Manager, Player & Developer Experience
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$272K/yr - $306K/yr
10+ years expDiscord is a platform used by over 200 million people monthly, primarily for gaming and social interaction. They are seeking a Senior Product Design Manager to lead a design team, define product strategies, and create engaging player experiences that connect gaming businesses with their communities.
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Responsibilities
Partner with engineering, data science, research, and product leaders to define annual strategy
Inspire teams through strategic storytelling, leading vision sprints that turn complex problems into compelling product directions
Lead and mentor the broader design team while directly managing the careers of three designers (to start), holding yourself accountable to their professional development and craft excellence
Evolve team processes, rituals, and rhythms that drive a safe, nurturing culture for growth while ensuring razor-sharp clarity of focus and priority across the design team
Provide direct, actionable feedback to designers and facilitate weekly critiques that elevate the quality of work and strengthen collaborative problem-solving skills, upholding a culture of doing exceptional work and being exceptional to work with
Contribute hands-on design leadership when needed, and where your skill-set and expertise adds the most value, whether it be strategic vision level or quickly diving into an interaction detail
Uphold high design quality standards, and bring moments of delight and joy, across consumer and developer-facing experiences, while ensuring our solutions meet the diverse needs of both gaming businesses and Discord's player community
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in consumer-facing digital product design work, including gaming, communication platforms, or B2B experiences
4+ years directly managing design teams of 5 or more, with a track record of growing talent and building cultures of creative excellence
Ability to bring simplicity and clarity to complex problems or opportunity spaces, and turn insights into compelling product directions
Ability to communicate to peers and executive stakeholders in ways that drive action
Strong leadership skills rooted in empathy: you understand how to staff and grow your direct reports in challenging, supportive ways while motivating teams to deliver excellent results
Hands-on design excellence that inspires your team, with the ability to design and prototype in Figma to demonstrate the visual craft standards you expect from others
Operational effectiveness in communication, roadmapping, and planning, with comfort adjusting to pivots and new opportunities that influence defined plans
Preferred
You play video games
Experience integrating with AI tools in your design workflows
Experience working at a reputable creative agency
Benefits
Equity
Benefits
Company
Discord
Discord is an online voice, video, and text communication platform designed for creating communities.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$995.41MKey Investors
Flat CapitalDragoneer Investment GroupSony Interactive Entertainment
2024-03-01Secondary Market
2022-11-22Series I
2022-03-12Secondary Market· $10.86M
Leadership Team
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Board Member & Advisor to the CEO
Stanislav Vishnevskiy
CTO & Co-Founder
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