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About the Role
Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, bringing together millions of daily active users who hang out before, during, and after playing games. On the Developer Platform team, our mission is to help game studios succeed by building meaningful experiences for players, serving as a vital B2B2C bridge.
As a Product Designer focused on Player Experiences, you will shape how players interact with games and friends on Discord and in-game. Your work will span desktop clients, in-game overlays, and mobile surfaces to create seamless connections. You'll report to the Sr. Product Design Manager on our Developer Platform Design team, driving projects from early exploration through launch and iteration.
Why Join Discord?
Discord is a multiplatform, multigenerational, and multiplayer platform dedicated to helping people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. If you are energized by complex challenges and passionate about games and community, join us in our mission!
Key Technical Responsibilities
- check_circle Embed within the Player Experience squad and partner with a staff designer, engineers, product managers, and data scientists to design the player-facing side of studio integrations, from concept through launch and post-launch iteration.
- check_circle Design player-facing features like friend invites, game presence, and shareable game moments, accounting for how developers configure and integrate them so the experience holds up across every game and platform.
- check_circle Mix your visual, UX, and interaction design skills to solve for the constraints of both desktop and mobile surfaces, ensuring feature parity and quality.
- check_circle Playtest your work regularly, iterating on feedback from players, peers, and leadership to reach a polished, production-ready experience.
- check_circle Produce comprehensive design documentation and interactive prototypes, and keep them up to date as decisions evolve, so engineering and product partners can build with confidence.
- check_circle Share work early and often in critiques and team reviews, and communicate the business and user-centered rationale behind design choices in forums such as design reviews, project-team meetings, and leadership discussions.
Prerequisites & Qualifications
- check 2+ years of experience designing and shipping a web/app product for a variety of devices and platforms.
- check Experience designing consumer-facing mobile features specifically (not just responsive web), including familiarity with mobile platform conventions and constraints (iOS/Android).
- check An ownership mindset with a bias toward action, helping to drive projects and decisions forward.
- check A high craft bar and attention to detail in user experience, visual design, interaction design, and prototyping, with proficiency in Figma and prototyping tools to demonstrate interaction, functionality, and flows.
- check Ability to communicate complex problems and experiences simply, and to know when a user journey, wireframe, deck, prototype, or design specification will be most effective in doing so.
- check Experience working within a design system, and contributing back to it.
- check Experience designing for mature products, both against a vision and through incremental improvements.
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.