Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
About The Position
Discord is seeking a Senior Product Designer to join their Design Systems team. This role focuses on the stewardship of Mana, Discord's design system, ensuring its health, accuracy, and usefulness as the product grows. The designer will be responsible for day-to-day tasks such as fixing bugs, shipping updates, and evolving existing components, while also contributing to the future direction of the system. The ideal candidate is an expert in component building, proficient in Figma, understands code implementation, and has experience with AI in a systems context. They should be a diplomatic and empathetic partner to product teams, grounding decisions in reasoning and collaborating effectively in a co-owned design and engineering environment with a low-ego approach.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in UX or product design, including 2+ years working on design systems (maintenance, documentation, and support)
- Mastery of Figma component building, including variants, component properties, auto layout, variables, and library management
- Working knowledge of front-end code and how components are built in code, plus experience with GitHub and Markdown
- Hands-on experience using AI in a design systems context, such as building or using skills, agents, or AI-assisted workflows
- Strong visual judgment and craft within an established style, including motion, across multiple platforms (Web, Desktop, iOS, Android)
- Experience with inclusive design and accessibility standards (WCAG)
- Diplomatic, empathetic, low-ego communication: you ground feedback in reasoning rather than taste, write clear technical documentation, and thrive on a cross-functional team where ownership is shared and roles overlap
Nice To Haves
- Experience planning and leading migrations or deprecations of legacy components across a large product
- Experience working in a design system that's co-owned by design and engineering
Responsibilities
- Maintaining and evolving Mana's foundational tokens, components, and patterns: triaging and fixing bugs, shipping updates, keeping Figma and code in sync, and migrating and deprecating legacy elements
- Building and refining components in Figma with deep care for structure, variants, properties, and variables, designed to match how they're implemented in code
- Owning the prioritization of Mana's maintenance and evolution work, and helping shape how contributions and governance work as the product grows
- Exploring how AI, including skills and agents, can make Mana easier to use, maintain, and scale
- Supporting product teams with empathy and clear reasoning: providing excellent support in help channels, working closely with product designers on contributions, and clearly explaining the difference between what goes against the system and personal preference
- Extending Mana's visual language to new components and surfaces, bringing fresh ideas that evolve the system thoughtfully, in close collaboration with engineering in a co-owned system where ownership shifts based on what the work needs
- Educating and evangelizing the system through simple-to-grasp documentation and tutorials, high-quality mocks and interactive prototypes, and design rationale presented cross-functionally and informed by user research and data
Benefits
- equity
- benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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