Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

The role

You will maintain and evolve Mana, Discord's design system, by fixing bugs, shipping updates, and evolving components. You will work on foundational tokens, patterns, and Figma component building while exploring AI applications for the system.

What you will do

• Maintaining and evolving Mana's foundational tokens, components, and patterns
• Triaging and fixing bugs and shipping updates
• Keeping Figma and code in sync
• Migrating and deprecating legacy elements
• Building and refining components in Figma
• Owning the prioritization of Mana's maintenance and evolution work
• Exploring how AI can make Mana easier to use, maintain, and scale
• Supporting product teams with empathy and clear reasoning
• Extending Mana's visual language to new components and surfaces
• Educating and evangelizing the system through documentation and tutorials

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in UX or product design
• 2+ years working on design systems (maintenance, documentation, and support)
• Mastery of Figma component building, including variants, component properties, auto layout, variables, and library management
• Working knowledge of front-end code and how components are built in code
• Experience with GitHub and Markdown
• Hands-on experience using AI in a design systems context, such as building or using skills, agents, or AI-assisted workflows
• Strong visual judgment and craft within an established style, including motion, across multiple platforms (Web, Desktop, iOS, Android)
• Experience with inclusive design and accessibility standards (WCAG)
• Diplomatic, empathetic, low-ego communication

Nice to have

• Experience planning and leading migrations or deprecations of legacy components across a large product
• Experience working in a design system that's co-owned by design and engineering

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan
• life and disability insurance
• paid time off
• paid parental leave
• equity

About the company

Discord is a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. The company focuses on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.