Discord
Product Design Manager, Growth
SF, CA | $100K - $150K
Qualifications
- years of experience as a Design Manager and managed at least 2 Product Designers
- years experience in multi-platform digital products as a Product Designer (or similar role)
- An enjoyment of people leadership
Responsibilities
- Your role will be to manage, hire and inspire a growing team of passionate designers that have a meaningful impact at Discord
- Reporting to the Manager, Product Design -you'll help the team put the user first, coaching designers through our process, and focusing the team on the highest impact problems with the best solutions
- You will be an essential member of design leadership
- You thrive on collaborating and take great enjoyment in working to improve people, product, and process
- What you'll be doing Build a team of highly-engaged designers by hiring, coaching and instilling a sense of ownership and impact
- Provide direction and guidance of product designers' output, promote partnerships and design process
- You'll influence product strategy and ensure product execution for our Growth organization
- Apply your technical expertise to constantly improve and ensure your team achieves extraordinary results at the high technical level we set
- Occasionally you will be hands-on with the design work, pitching in from time to time help support your team and keep them focused on deeper work, however this is primarily a management role (especially as the team grows larger)
- Adjust team composition and eventually creating new teams to adapt to changing needs or tuning team dynamics
- Make sound first-principle decisions around resourcing, and making the rationale clear to partners and team members
- Partner with other design leaders on strategic planning and to improve the Design organization and uphold our workplace philosophy
- Partner with Engineering to develop core component frameworks and best-practices
Benefits
- Minimum salary of $158,000/year
- Minimum salary of $142,200 /year
- Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20) Benefits and Perks Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures) Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends 16
- paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO
- use-what-you-need sick days Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits) Generous stipends for headphones, your remote work setup, and lunch on a daily basis (while we're all remote) Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid) Volunteer time off A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees About Us Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests -- from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more
- $100K -- $150K
- Brand Marketing & Management, Design & UXEstimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications
- 501-1,000 employees
- Software, Social Media, Technology, Software Development, Internet, Video Games, Entertainment, Gaming, Communication, Social Networking
- Privately Held
- Last round: Secondary market
- Last round: US$ 10.9M
- San Francisco, CA
- Company Specialties:
Video Games, Text Chat, and VOIP
Company information
Founded in 2015, Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests - from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations. And we're hiring! If this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us: https://discordapp.com/jobs for openings.
