Discord

Senior Product Design Manager, Growth

Discord ๐Ÿ“ California, USA ๐Ÿข On-site Posted Sep 3, 2026 via Discord careers
full-time ๐Ÿ“‚ Marketing & Advertising ๐Ÿข On-site ๐Ÿญ Media & Entertainment

โœจ Job Highlights

  • โ˜…Pay: $272,000 to $306,000 a year
  • โ˜…On-site: California
  • โ˜…Full-time role in marketing & advertising
  • โ˜…Experience asked for: 10+ years
  • โ˜…Apply directly on Discord's careers site
  • โ˜…Posted September 3, 2026

Full Job Description

Senior Product Design Manager, Growth job at Discord in California

Discord is recruiting a Senior Product Design Manager, Growth to join the team in California. This is full-time work at Discord's location. Pay for this role is set at $272,000 to $306,000 a year, according to the posting.

The description below comes from Discord's own job posting.

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but thereโ€™s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.

Growth sits at the front door of Discord's consumer experience. Our mission is to grow Discord's community responsibly - helping new people discover Discord, land and activate quickly, and stay connected to what they care about. This role owns the full arc of a new user's first experience: how they find us through search, how they register and log in, how onboarding introduces what Discord is, and how notifications bring them back to the moments that matter.

As our Senior Design Manager, you'll report to the Director of Product Design and lead a talented team of designers across the full product development cycle, from strategic visioning through launch and iteration. Your team owns the new user's journey - spanning discovery, sign-up, onboarding, notifications, and the earliest days of the Discord experience.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Lead and grow a team of product designers working across acquisition, activation, and re-engagement
  • Inspire teams through strategic storytelling, leading vision sprints that turn complex problems into compelling product directions with milestoned experimentation proposals
  • Balance competing priorities between growth velocity, user value, and product quality, ensuring we build experiences that are effective, high craft, and responsible
  • Uphold high design quality standards, and bring moments of delight and joy across the new-user journey, while ensuring our solutions respect user agency and build trust
  • Partner closely with cross-functional leaders in product, engineering, and data science to align on strategy and execution
  • Champion informed design - through product design, user research, and data - helping your team deeply understand both new and returning users
  • Foster a culture of creative excellence, where designers feel empowered to tackle ambiguous problems with empathy and innovation
  • What you should have

  • 10+ years of experience in scaled consumer-facing digital product design work, ideally including growth, onboarding, acquisition, or lifecycle product experiences
  • 4+ years directly managing design teams of 4 or more, with a track record of growing talent and building cultures of creative excellence
  • Ability to bring simplicity and clarity to complex problems or opportunity spaces, and turn insights into compelling product directions
  • Experience designing acquisition, activation, or lifecycle experiences, with a strong sense of how early product moments shape long-term retention
  • Ability to communicate to peers and executive stakeholders in ways that drive action and uplevel execution
  • Strong leadership skills rooted in empathy: you understand how to staff and grow your direct reports in challenging, supportive ways while motivating teams to deliver excellent results
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and navigating tradeoffs between business goals and user value
  • A working understanding and curiosity of AI-assisted design workflows - from ideation and prototyping to generative UI - and the design judgment to know when AI output needs a human hand before it ships
  • Bonus Points

  • Personal use of Discord, and/or gaming experience
  • Experience with growth experimentation frameworks and data-driven design iteration
  • Understanding of how products reach and grow users across surfaces - notifications, search/SEO, onboarding, and shareable/viral loops
  • Background in behavioral psychology, habit formation, or user motivation

  • The US base salary range for this full-time position is $272,000 to $306,000 + 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!

    Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.

    Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discordโ€™s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

    Common questions

    What is the salary for the Senior Product Design Manager, Growth role at Discord?

    Discord advertises $272,000 to $306,000 a year for this role.

    Is the Senior Product Design Manager, Growth position remote?

    No, it is an on-site job in California.

    What experience do I need for this Senior Product Design Manager, Growth job?

    The posting mentions at least 10 years of relevant experience and skills such as SEO and Onboarding. Read the full description above for the complete list.

    How do I apply for the Senior Product Design Manager, Growth job?

    Use the apply button on this page. It takes you to Discord's own application form, so your CV goes directly to their hiring team.

    When was this job posted?

    Discord published the role on September 3, 2026. We check the employer's job board every day and take this page down when the role closes, so if you can read it, the job was still listed at our last check.

    Source: Discord careers page (job-boards.greenhouse.io). Applications go straight to the employer. We check the listing daily and remove it once it closes.

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    ๐Ÿข About Discord

    Discord is a voice, video and text platform that helps friends come together to hang out, play games and have fun. When Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy founded Discord in 2015 they had a hunch that multiplayer gaming would be the future of entertainment and that people would need a communications platform designed for them to talk with their gaming friends. Today, gaming has become the largest form of entertainment in the world, bigger than movies and music combined. Itโ€™s the fastest-growing as well. Discord makes it feel like youโ€™re…

    Industry: Media & Entertainment

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    ๐Ÿข Company Discord
    ๐Ÿ“ Location California, USA
    ๐Ÿ’ผ Job Type full-time
    ๐ŸŒ Work Mode ๐Ÿข On-site
    ๐Ÿญ Industry Media & Entertainment
    ๐Ÿ—“ Posted Date Sep 3, 2026
    ๐Ÿ”— Via Discord careers
    ๐ŸŽฏ Experience 10+ years
    ๐Ÿ“… Deadline Dec 16, 2034

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    Discord is a voice, video and text platform that helps friends come together to hang out, play games and have…

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