Discord · 4 days ago
Senior Product Design Manager, Growth & Safety
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$272K/yr - $306K/yr
10+ years expDiscord is a platform used by over 200 million people monthly, primarily for gaming. They are seeking a Senior Product Design Manager to lead a team focused on growth and safety, balancing user experience with community protection while designing onboarding and safety systems.
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Responsibilities
Lead and grow a team of product designers working across growth acquisition, activation, safety experiences and compliance
Inspire teams through strategic storytelling, leading vision sprints that turn complex problems into compelling product directions with milestoned experimentation proposals
Balance competing priorities between growth velocity, user value, product quality and safety integrity, ensuring we build experiences that are effective, high craft and responsible
Uphold high design quality standards, and bring moments of delight and joy, across growth and safety experiences, while ensuring our solutions respect user agency and build trust
Partner closely with cross-functional leaders in product, engineering, data science, and policy to align on strategy and execution
Champion informed design - through product design, user research and data-informed - helping your team deeply understand both new users. power users and safety challenges
Foster a culture of creative excellence, where designers feel empowered to tackle sensitive problems with empathy and innovation
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in scaled consumer-facing digital product design work, ideally including growth, trust & safety, onboarding, or consumer product experiences
4+ years directly managing design teams of 4 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
Experience designing for sensitive domains like safety, moderation, or integrity, with a nuanced understanding of how to balance user freedom with community protection
Ability to communicate to peers and executive stakeholders in ways that drives action and uplevels execution
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
Comfort operating in ambiguity and navigating tradeoffs between business goals and user wellbeing
Preferred
Personal use of Discord, and/or gaming experience
Experience with growth experimentation frameworks and data-driven design iteration
Understanding of trust & safety challenges across social platforms, including content moderation, user reporting, and preventive systems
Background in behavioral psychology, habit formation, or user motivation
Benefits
Equity
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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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