Senior Product Design Manager, Growth

<div class="content-intro"><p>Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: <strong>play video games.</strong> 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.</p></div><p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>What You'll Be Doing</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead and grow a team of product designers working across acquisition, activation, and re-engagement</li> <li>Inspire teams through strategic storytelling, leading vision sprints that turn complex problems into compelling product directions with milestoned experimentation proposals</li> <li>Balance competing priorities between growth velocity, user value, and product quality, ensuring we build experiences that are effective, high craft, and responsible</li> <li>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</li> <li>Partner closely with cross-functional leaders in product, engineering, and data science to align on strategy and execution</li> <li>Champion informed design — through product design, user research, and data — helping your team deeply understand both new and returning users</li> <li>Foster a culture of creative excellence, where designers feel empowered to tackle ambiguous problems with empathy and innovation</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you should have</strong></p> <ul> <li>10+ years of experience in scaled consumer-facing digital product design work, ideally including growth, onboarding, acquisition, or lifecycle product experiences</li> <li>4+ years directly managing design teams of 4 or more, with a track record of growing talent and buil