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About the Role
Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. 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.
We're looking for a technical, hands-on, and mission-focused Senior Engineering Manager to join our Consumer Revenue team. You’ll be responsible for building and scaling our Nitro product and organization. You will lead a team of engineers working across platforms to build revenue driving products and services at Discord.
Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission!
Key Technical Responsibilities
- check_circle Build highly-engaged teams by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact in your engineers.
- check_circle Work cross-functionally with our Finance, Customer Experience, Product, Design and Marketing teams to define your team’s vision and roadmap by thoroughly understanding the customer and business needs.
- check_circle Use your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar and ensure your team delivers extraordinary results at the high technical level we set.
- check_circle Develop insights into issues slowing down the team and use it to develop processes that enable the team to deliver its goals.
- check_circle Mentor and guide the careers of the engineers through coaching and finding opportunities that support their technical skillset and goals.
- check_circle Make sound decisions around resourcing, and make the rationale clear to partners and team members.
- check_circle Partner with Revenue leadership on strategic planning and continuously improve the Engineering organization while upholding our workplace philosophy.
Prerequisites & Qualifications
- check You have 5+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager
- check You have strong communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally.
- check You are motivated to help your team members succeed and have experience developing engineers of multiple levels.
- check You approach problems from first principles.
- check You are comfortable with ambiguity and get excited about working collaboratively to figure out solutions to complex problems, and then executing on them.
- check You have a strong product sense and take pride in understanding your customers.
- check You use experiments to make data informed decisions and are excited when numbers move by 1%.
- check Code does not scare you, you are still an engineer even if you don't do it all the time.
- check You keep up with the industry trends and can assess new technologies that can help us better solve problems.
About Discord Greenhouse Board
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Discord is a voice, video, and text communication service used by tens of millions of people to talk and hang out with their communities and friends. Operating primarily out of the San Francisco Bay Area, Discord's engineering and product teams build real-time, low-latency communication infrastructure designed to support massive scale, gaming communities, and diverse social spaces.