Senior Product Designer, Design Systems at Discord

The role

This role focuses on the stewardship and evolution of Mana, Discord's design system, ensuring it remains healthy and useful as the product scales. You will work cross-functionally to maintain UI quality and bridge the gap between design and engineering.

What you'll do

• Maintain foundational tokens and components while triaging bugs and shipping updates
• Build refined Figma components that align with technical implementation in code
• Prioritize maintenance tasks and shape governance for the design system
• Explore AI applications to improve system maintenance and scalability
• Provide technical support and clear design reasoning to product teams
• Create documentation and tutorials to evangelize the system across the organization

What you'll bring

• Over five years of UX design experience with two years focused on design systems
• Expert proficiency in Figma component building and library management
• Practical knowledge of front-end code and version control tools like GitHub
• Experience integrating AI workflows or agents into design systems
• Strong understanding of inclusive design and WCAG accessibility standards

Your impact

You will ensure that Discord's design system remains a robust and scalable foundation for product development. By bridging design and engineering, you will improve the efficiency of product teams and maintain a high standard of visual quality across all platforms.