Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

Discord is your place to talk. Whether you're part of a school club, gaming group, worldwide art community, or just a handful of friends that want to spend time together, millions of people use Discord every day to create connections, hang out, and talk.

The Design Systems team is a cross-functional team that ensures design quality across all facets of UI, content, and graphics. As a part of the team, you will manage the creation and maintenance of the design system that all product designers, engineers, and product managers use to design & develop at Discord. Using your full range of interaction, visual, and prototyping skills, you will own creating a coherent and ownable look & feel for our desktop & mobile experiences.

As a qualified candidate, you have a record of leading systems projects to successful outcomes for users and the business. You are a strong cross-functional partner having worked closely with engineers, a great communicator, and above all, you approach problems holistically as a unified system. You are able to precisely articulate design rationale and present to diverse stakeholders from all across the company. You have fostered partnerships and supported broader product teams in applying a system around individual product constraints. This role will report to the Senior Product Design Manager, Design Systems.

What you'll be doing

• Building new and maintaining current foundational tokens, components, and patterns

  • Create a unified, cohesive set of UX and visual guidelines

  • Working closely with product designers on contributions

• Promoting adoption of new elements by sharing your work / presenting cross-functionally. Be able to precisely articulate design rationale and goals

  • Migrating & deprecating legacy elements

• Educate and evangelize the system through simple to grasp documentation & tutorials

  • Showcase excellent customer service in support channels

• Think (really) big, and explore divergent concepts while understanding how to converge and build iteratively towards your vision

• Create high-quality mocks and interactive prototypes to communicate your work. Use user research and data to inform your reasoning

• Inspire the entire team and our internal partners by bringing new ideas to the table and defining next-generation interfaces

What you should have

• 4+ years of experience working in UX field

• 2+ years of experience working on design systems (creation, documentation & support)

• Excellence in visual design / brand craft, including motion

• Experience designing on multiple platforms (Web, iOS, Android, etc)

• Experience with inclusive design / WCAG

• Highly proficient with current design and prototyping tools (Figma, etc)

• Highly collaborative and cross-functional team

Bonus Points

• Experience with version control and Github

• Technical writing experience, familiarity with markdown

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $178,000-$192,000 + equity + benefits. 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. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

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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
• 14+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days 
• Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
• 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. 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