Discord
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
San Francisco Bay Area · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- This role is about stewardship: keeping Mana healthy, accurate, and useful as the product grows.
- You root every decision in reasoning and can tell the difference between feedback on the system and feedback on personal taste.
- Our salary ranges are determined by role and level.
Responsibilities
- Building and refining components in Figma with deep care for structure, variants,, and variables, designed to match how they're implemented in code
- Exploring how AI, including skills and agents, can make Mana easier to use, maintain, and scale
- Supporting product teams with empathy and clear reasoning: providing excellent support in help channels, working closely with product designers on contributions, and clearly explaining the difference between what goes against the system and personal preference
- Educating and evangelizing the system through simple-to-grasp documentation and tutorials, high-quality mocks and interactive prototypes, and design rationale presented cross-functionally and informed by user research and data
- Mastery of Figma component building, including variants, component, auto layout, variables, and library management
- Hands-on experience using AI in a design systems context, such as building or using skills, agents, or AI-assisted workflows
- Experience working in a design system that's co-owned by design and engineering
- The Design Systems team is a cross-functional team that ensures design quality across all facets of UI, content, and graphics.
- Mana, our design system, is well loved and widely used by the product designers, engineers, and creatives who design and build Discord every day.
- 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.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in UX or product design, including 2+ years working on design systems (maintenance, documentation, and support)
- Experience with inclusive design and accessibility standards (WCAG)
Nice to have
- Working knowledge of front-end code and how components are built in code, plus experience with GitHub and Markdown
Compensation
- $188,000 - $235,000 USD
- The base salary range for this full-time position is listed below.
- Our salary ranges are determined by role and level.
- Please note that the compensation details listed in role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.
Benefits
- This position will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
- Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Company info
- 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.
- 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.
This listing is sourced directly from Discord's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.