Senior Product Designer, Developer Success

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 on the Developer Platform Team is to help game studios succeed by creating meaningful experiences for players.

Responsibilities

• Work on everything from the tools studios use to integrate with Discord to the player-facing experiences those integrations enable.
• Create wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and help implement your designs to pixel perfection.
• Quality check all of your work as it is built, ensuring it reflects your vision.
• Own the bar for craft, execution and production quality for your immediate product team, and proactively identify opportunities to uplevel the quality of your work in production as you playtest.
• Actively influence your team's roadmap with a deep understanding of the product space, acting as a thought leader with your XFN leads in defining the "how" of the product strategy.
• Present your designs to the team and the greater organization to drive alignment around your work.
• Identify gaps or improvements for our design system and contribute UX and design patterns that address design debt, and are adopted across the design organization.
• Be an active peer and participant in your organization's design team and culture, sharing/contributing often and proactively in critiques and in general channels to encourage a culture of open feedback and active support.

Requirements

5+ years of experience developing and leading design on central end-to-end consumer products across a variety of platforms (web, mobile, desktop, console, etc).

You have been the design lead for a squad, feature, initiative, and team and are comfortable making design decisions, leading discussion, and communicating out to the wider organization.

Experience working on B2B/B2B2C products and platforms.

Expert-level experience with Figma and a high-fidelity prototyping tools, and confidence in utilizing AI to create prototypes.

Strong product thinking and strategic vision, with the ability to translate complex business requirements into intuitive user experiences.

Adept at articulating the rationale behind design decisions and their alignment with broader product goals.

Mastery of design craft, including typography, color theory, layout principles, and interaction design.

Adept at crafting high quality visual designs and have an eye for creating delight in every product experience.

Compelling storytelling skills across multiple mediums with consistent experience pitching and influencing design decisions across peers, immediate team members and organization leadership.

Strong, proactive communication skills, forming ideas and presenting them to your cross-functional team to develop product strategy and roadmaps.

A desire to deeply understand the "why" before defining the "how" and use it to develop a strategic product perspective, and vision.

Proficiency in data analysis and interpretation, with the ability to leverage quantitative and qualitative data to inform design decisions and measure the impact of design changes on key metrics.

Experience working with, and actively contributing to a design system with components of sub-system languages.

Qualifications

Casual PC or console player

Benefits

Our US base salary range for this full-time position is $188,000 to $211,500 + equity + benefits.

We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.

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