Director of Product, Friends

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Discord is your place to talk. Whether you're part of a school club, gaming group, worldwide art community, or just a handful of friends that want to spend time together, millions of people use Discord every day to create connections, hang out, and talk.

Discord’s heart are groups of friends coming together to hang out and talk, whether while playing games, or watching something, or just chatting. Our Friends group is responsible for making their experience amazing: Whether it’s having best in class messaging, audio, and video chat, or seamless game integrations and streaming, or being able to voice chat while playing on a console, or creating that sense of presence that our users love about Discord.

We're looking for a Director of Product reporting to our VP of Product to join us and lead our Friends group. You will responsible for creating a vision, crafting a strategy, building systems and features, ideating creative solutions, and building a product group to help our users hang out with each other online.

What you'll be doing

  • Guide the product philosophy, vision, and strategy for products and features that make Discord the best place to hang out with friends online.
  • Attract, build, manage, and develop a team of talented product managers to help our users to talk to each other in their favorite places.
  • Manage multiple products and priorities, scale teams, and ensure your org is effective, healthy and set up for success by establishing clear and measurable goals.
  • Communicate clearly roadmaps, priorities, experiments and decisions across a wide spectrum of audiences from partner teams to executive levels.
  • Lead a cross-functional organization of engineers, designers, and data scientists to build delightful outstanding growth systems, tools and products.
  • Partner with other product teams across our organization, such as Communities, Growth, Creators, or Premium Products.
  • Empathize, engage and cultivate relationships with our users to deeply understand their needs.

What you should have

  • Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, excited about finding solutions to complex problems, and then executing on them.
  • 10+ years of experience building and shipping great software, including responsibilities driving prioritization, trade-offs, and timelines.
  • 6+ years of experience hiring, managing, and developing both individual contributors and senior product leaders.
  • 6+ years of experience focused on consumer, social, or communication products.
  • Proven track record of achieving impact through empowering customers with innovative solutions.
  • Proven ability to analyze and synthesize data in order to set strategic goals.
  • Experience presenting to senior executive audiences.
  • Demonstrated technical proficiency and effectiveness working closely with engineers and managers.
  • Strong product sense and pride in understanding your customers.

Bonus Points

  • A love for helping & empowering others.
  • Experience building and growing social and/or online communication products.
  • BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant technical experience.
  • Entrepreneurial experience building consumer applications.

(New York City only*) Minimum salary of $206,000/year + equity and benefits Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law
(Colorado only*) Minimum salary of $164,800 /year + equity and benefits *Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).

Benefits and Perks
  • Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures)
  • Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
  • 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days 
  • Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
  • Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
  • Volunteer time off
  • A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups 
  • Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees

About Us

Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests — from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.

We’re working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding? Double heck yes. It’s a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!

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