Product Design Manager, Safety

Discord is looking for a highly creative, hands-on, and mission-driven Product Design Manager to lead design in our Safety organization.

Your role will be to manage, hire and inspire a growing team of passionate designers that have a meaningful impact at Discord. 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 Safety organization.
• Apply your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar 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 to 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 create new teams to adapt to changing needs or tune team dynamics.
• Make sound first-principle decisions around resourcing, and make the rationale clear to partners and team members.
• Partner with other design leaders on strategic planning to continuously improve the Design organization and uphold our workplace philosophy.
• Partner with Engineering to develop core component frameworks and best practices.

What you should have

• You have 2+ years of experience as a Design Manager and managed at least 2 Product Designers.
• A portfolio of work you've designed and shipped as well as examples of work you delivered by your team that you helped to direct.
• 4+ years experience in multi-platform digital products as a Product Designer (or similar role).
• An enjoyment of people leadership. This includes recruiting, training and developing, organization design, and leading by example.
• You thrive in ambiguous environments and get excited about figuring out solutions to complex problems, and then executing on them.
• You are a first principles thinker that can work with others to come up with pragmatic solutions.
• Designing yourself does not scare you, you are still a designer even if you don't do it all the time.
• You keep up with the industry trends and can assess new tools and techniques.
• History of collaborating with engineers and product managers.

New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $168,000/year + equity and benefits
*Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law.

Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $151,200/year + equity and benefits
*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).