Product Designer, Ads

About the role

Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. Our mission within the Design team at Discord is to make Discord the best place to hang out online with friends. Specifically, our Ads teams focus on helping customers and business partners extend their experience to get the most out of Discord through use of Discord Quests, our first ads product.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Understand company and team goals focused on revenue generation through our unique ad product “Quests”, and drive concepts and decisions in service of reaching those goals and milestones
• Present your designs to the team and the greater organization to build consensus and drive alignment around your work
• Create wire-frames, beautiful mockups, amazing prototypes, and help implement your designs to pixel perfection
• Test, learn, and iterate on everything you do alongside partners
• Help maintain and commit to our Design pattern library
• Be an active, participatory member of the Discord Design team, and help foster a culture of design

Requirements

2+ years experience designing and shipping a web/app product for a variety of devices and platforms

Direct experience in, or a strong passion for, combining business acumen, systems thinking, and design craft (while being mindful of Brand) to create compelling advertising experiences that serve our users as well as our publisher partners

Individually contributed by designing end-to-end experiences within a cross-functional team and are comfortable making design decisions, leading discussion, and communicating out to a wider organization with occasional intervention or support from a manager

An active design collaborator - giving feedback in critique, sharing knowledge, and supporting and empowering your design teammates

Strong product thinking and vision. You're more concerned with the "why" than the "how"

Excited to dig into experiment data to help inform design iterations and whether something should ship

Advanced level experience with Figma

Bonus points: Experience building design systems, Rich prototyping experience, Casual or committed gamer, Interface animation know-how, CSS, JavaScript, or React skills

Qualifications

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $148,000 to $166,500 + 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.