Discord
Senior Product Design Manager, Growth
San Francisco Bay Area · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- Growth sits at the front door of Discord's consumer experience.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of product designers working across acquisition, activation, and re-engagement
- Balance competing priorities between growth velocity, user value, and product quality, ensuring we build experiences that are effective, high craft, and responsible
- Uphold high design quality standards, and bring moments of delight and joy across the new-user journey, while ensuring our solutions respect user agency and build trust
- Partner closely with cross-functional leaders in product, engineering, and data science to align on strategy and execution
- Champion informed design - through product design, user research, and data - helping your team deeply understand both new and returning users
- 4+ years directly managing design teams of 4 or more, with a track record of growing talent and building cultures of creative excellence
- Ability to communicate to peers and executive stakeholders in ways that drive action and uplevel execution
- Strong leadership skills rooted in empathy: you understand how to staff and grow your direct reports in challenging, supportive ways while motivating teams to deliver excellent results
- A working understanding and curiosity of AI-assisted design workflows - from ideation and prototyping to generative UI - and the design judgment to know when AI output needs a human hand before it ships
Requirements
- Experience with growth experimentation frameworks and data-driven design iteration
Nice to have
- Foster a culture of creative excellence, where designers feel empowered to tackle ambiguous problems with empathy and innovation
- 10+ years of experience in scaled consumer-facing digital product design work, ideally including growth, onboarding, acquisition, or lifecycle product experiences
- Ability to bring simplicity and clarity to complex problems or opportunity spaces, and turn insights into compelling product directions
- Experience designing acquisition, activation, or lifecycle experiences, with a strong sense of how early product moments shape long-term retention
Skills
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and navigating tradeoffs between business goals and user value
- Personal use of Discord, and/or gaming experience
- Understanding of how products reach and grow users across surfaces - notifications, search/SEO, onboarding, and shareable/viral loops
- Background in behavioral psychology, habit formation, or user motivation
Compensation
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $272,000 to $306,000 + equity + benefits.
- Our salary ranges are determined by role and level.
- Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.
Benefits
- Inspire teams through strategic storytelling, leading vision sprints that turn complex problems into compelling product directions with milestoned experimentation proposals
Company info
- 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.
- Our mission is to grow Discord's community responsibly - helping new people discover Discord, land and activate quickly, and stay connected to what they care about.
- 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.
- Join us in our mission!
This listing is sourced directly from Discord's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.