Product Designer, Player Experiences

Discord•San Francisco, CA

1d•$148,000 - $166,500

About The Position

Discord is seeking a Product Designer focused on Player Experiences to join their Developer Platform team. This role will concentrate on the player-facing aspects of studio integrations, aiming to make it easier and more fun for users to connect around gaming. The designer will work on experiences within the Discord client, mobile app, and in-game overlays, focusing on features that deepen player connections to games and foster friendships through play. The position involves working across the full product development cycle, from initial concept to launch and iteration, requiring a blend of user empathy, systems thinking, and visual craft. The designer will report to the Sr. Product Design Manager on the Developer Platform Design team.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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 visual, UX, and interaction design skills to solve for the constraints of both desktop and mobile surfaces, ensuring feature parity and quality.
Playtest 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.