Product Designer, Player Experiences

confidential; United States; On-site; USD 148,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Discord is seeking an experienced product designer to shape the player-facing experience for studio integrations across desktop and mobile. You will partner with designers, engineers, PMs, and data scientists from concept through launch and post-launch iterations.

You’ll craft features like friend invites and game moments with a strong focus on UX, visual design, and prototyping, maintaining design-system consistency and rapid iteration based on playtesting feedback.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience designing and shipping a web/app product for a variety of devices and platforms.
• Experience designing consumer-facing mobile features specifically (iOS/Android).
• Ownership mindset with bias toward action.
• High craft bar and attention to detail in UX, visual design, interaction design, and prototyping, with proficiency in Figma and prototyping tools.
• Ability to communicate complex problems simply and when to use a user journey, wireframe, deck, prototype, or design spec.
• Experience working within a design system, and contributing back to it.
• Experience designing for mature products, both against a vision and through incremental improvements.

Responsibilities

• Embed within the Player Experience squad and partner with designers, engineers, PMs, and data scientists to design player-facing studio integrations from concept to launch and post-launch iteration.
• Design player-facing features like friend invites, game presence, and shareable game moments for multiple devices and platforms.
• Balance desktop and mobile constraints to ensure feature parity and quality.
• Iterate through playtesting and feedback to reach a polished, production-ready experience.
• Produce design docs and interactive prototypes, updating them as decisions evolve for engineers and product partners.

Skills

Web/app product design

Mobile app design (iOS/Android)

Ownership mindset

UX & visual design

Clear communication

Design system experience

Mature product design

Tools

Figma

Job description

What You'll Be Doing

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. 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. Mix your visual, UX, and interaction design skills to solve for the constraints of both desktop and mobile surfaces, ensuring feature parity and quality. Playtest your work regularly, iterating on feedback from players, peers, and leadership to reach a polished, production-ready experience. 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. 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.

What you should have

• 2+ years of experience designing and shipping a web/app product for a variety of devices and platforms.
• Experience designing consumer-facing mobile features specifically (not just responsive web), including familiarity with mobile platform conventions and constraints (iOS/Android).
• An ownership mindset with a bias toward action, helping to drive projects and decisions forward.
• 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.
• 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.
• Experience working within a design system, and contributing back to it.
• Experience designing for mature products, both against a vision and through incremental improvements.

Bonus Points

• Experience designing mobile-first experiences.
• Casual or committed gamer, on mobile and PC.

The US base salary range for this full-time position

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $148,000 to $166,500 + 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.

Why Discord?

Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. 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. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!

Inclusion

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