Product Manager, Core Product
Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.
The Core Product team at Discord is responsible for creating exceptional experiences that drive deeper engagement with our users and provide a strong product foundation for other teams to build upon.
We're looking for a Product Manager to join the Core Product organization and lead Messaging. You will be responsible for creating a vision, building systems and features, and ideating creative solutions to help users talk and hangout with their friends.
This position is US-based only. We are seeking candidates located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
What You'll Be Doing
- Guide the product philosophy, vision, and roadmap for Messaging
- Lead cross-functional execution with a team of Engineers, Designers, ML engineers, and Data Scientists to build delightful Messaging experiences that make Discord the go-to choice for people to chat with friends online
- Partner with other product teams across Discord who leverage messaging systems as a foundation for their initiatives, including Revenue, Developer Ecosystem, and Growth.
- Independently make decisions for your product area, gain buy-in from leadership, and act as a momentum catalyst for your execution team
- Clearly communicate roadmaps, priorities, experiments and decisions across a wide spectrum of audiences from partner teams to executive levels
- Define and own performance against key engagement metrics
What you should have
- Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, excited about finding solutions to complex problems, and then executing on them
- 5+ years of experience building and shipping great consumer products, including responsibilities driving prioritization, trade-offs, and timelines
- Proven track record of impact through solving challenging user experience problems at scale
- Strong analytical ability to quickly organize and leverage data (including writing SQL) to make informed product decisions with cross-functional stakeholder.
- Demonstrated technical proficiency and effectiveness working closely with engineers on both platform infrastructure and user-facing features
- Strong product sense for the nuances around building experiences to foster social group dynamics
- Experience with A/B testing and experimentation frameworks
Bonus Points
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant technical experience
- Experience building and growing messaging, community, or social networking products
- Entrepreneurial experience building consumer applications
- Passion for Discord and gaming
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The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + 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. 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!
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