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Discord · 3 days ago

Staff Product Manager, Payments

positionSan Francisco Bay Area
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
money$248K/yr - $279K/yr
date7+ years exp

Discord is a platform used by over 200 million people for gaming and social interaction, and they are seeking a Staff Product Manager to lead their Payments efforts. The role involves defining the long-term vision for payment systems and driving the product and engineering roadmap to enhance monetization across various business lines.

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Responsibilities

Guide the product philosophy, vision, and roadmap for our payments architecture, integrations, and experiences, with the goal of supporting all our businesses in the most efficient manner
Lead cross-functional execution with engineering, data science, design, marketing, partnerships teams to continually improve our payments platform as our businesses scale
Partner with our risk, legal, policy, safety, accounting teams to ensure our system is secure, compliant, and easily understood. Do this while always prioritizing the protection of our users and partner businesses
Clearly communicate roadmaps, priorities, experiments, and decisions across a wide spectrum of audiences from internal teams to executive levels, both internally and externally with payments partners
Together with other product teams, evolve the in-app ecosystem for all monetizable products to ensure a coherent and delightful experience for anything a user pays for
Empathize and relate to our users, especially those who are the most active on Discord

Qualification

Payments architectureMonetization infrastructurePayment UX flowsData analysisTechnical proficiencyConsumer tech revenuePayment tokenizationTax compliancePCI complianceEmpathyRisk analysisGift cardsCross-functional collaborationCommunication skills

Required

7+ years experience shipping great software, driving prioritization, setting timelines, with a track record of building durable monetization infrastructure
Experience building and maintaining wallets, payment UX flows, payment tokenization, purchasing/billing infrastructure, tax/accounting compliance, PCI compliance, giftcards, payouts, and geo-based payments
Experience partnering with processors/PSPs on consumer subscription businesses, consumer-based ecommerce businesses, integrations for new payment methods, and monetizing payments
Experience with Apple and Google mobile app store integrations, limitations, and creating unified experiences for mobile and desktop users
Strong analytical ability to quickly organize and leverage data to make informed product decisions with cross-functional stakeholders. Experience making trade-offs related to achieving metric goals while maintaining stable infrastructure
Demonstrated technical proficiency and effectiveness working closely with engineers. Comfortable discussing APIs, data models, and system behavior with infrastructure engineers
Strong product sense for the consumer tech revenue space with deep understanding of how users go from free to paid

Preferred

BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant technical experience
Domain experience in payments, fintech, commerce, billing, or consumer subscriptions
Experience building and growing consumer social and/or online communication products
Experience working across or in multiple payment processors/PSPs in different regions of the world
Experience with high-fraud payment environments, include risk analysis and interventions
Experience working with gift cards, especially for digital goods

Benefits

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Company

Discord

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Discord is an online voice, video, and text communication platform designed for creating communities.
dateFounded in 2015
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size501-1000 employees
web-link
https://discord.com

H1B Sponsorship

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2023 (13)
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2021 (5)
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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$995.41M
Key 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
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Stanislav Vishnevskiy
CTO & Co-Founder
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