Product Designer, Ads

Discord Discord · Consumer · San Francisco, CA · Product Design

Product Designer for Discord's Ads team, focusing on the 'Quests' ad product. The role involves the full end-to-end product development process, from concept to launch and iteration, partnering with engineers, PMs, researchers, and data scientists. Key responsibilities include understanding revenue goals, presenting designs, creating wireframes and mockups, testing, and maintaining the design pattern library. Requires 2+ years of experience in shipping web/app products, with a focus on advertising experiences, strong product thinking, and proficiency in Figma. Bonus points for design systems, prototyping, gaming experience, animation, and web development skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will embed within a product squad and partner with engineers, product managers, researchers, and data scientists to oversee the user experience of a product from concept to launch — and then continue to improve it after release
  2. You will understand company and team goals focused on revenue generation through our unique ad product “Quests”, and drive concepts and decisions in service of reaching those goals and milestones
  3. You will present your designs to the team and the greater organization to build consensus and drive alignment around your work
  4. You will create wire-frames, beautiful mockups, amazing prototypes, and help implement your designs to pixel perfection
  5. You will test, learn, and iterate on everything you do alongside partners

Skills

Required

  • 2+ years experience designing and shipping a web/app product for a variety of devices and platforms
  • direct experience in, or a strong passion for, combining business acumen, systems thinking, and design craft (while being mindful of Brand) to create compelling advertising experiences that serve our users as well as our publisher partners
  • individually contributed by designing end-to-end experiences within a cross-functional team and are comfortable making design decisions, leading discussion, and communicating out to a wider organization with occasional intervention or support from a manager
  • active design collaborator - giving feedback in critique, sharing knowledge, and supporting and empowering your design teammates
  • strong product thinking and vision. You're more concerned with the "why" than the "how"
  • high level of design craft, and are committed to maintaining a high bar for design implementation
  • advanced level experience with Figma

Nice to have

  • Experience building design systems
  • Rich prototyping experience
  • Casual or committed gamer
  • Interface animation know-how
  • CSS, JavaScript, or React skills