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# Product Designer, Design Systems

- **Company:** Discord Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $188,000.0 - $211,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software Debugging, Github, Markdown, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Figma
- **Published:** October 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-product-designer-design-systems-discord-10245764

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience in UX or product design, including 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, plus 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: you ground feedback in reasoning rather than taste, write clear technical documentation, and thrive on a cross-functional team where ownership is shared and roles overlap

Bonus Points

 * 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

## Description

This person will report to the Director of Product Design, Design Foundations.

What You'll Be Doing

 * Maintaining and evolving Mana's foundational tokens, components, and patterns: triaging and fixing bugs, shipping updates, keeping Figma and code in sync, and migrating and deprecating legacy elements
 * Building and refining components in Figma with deep care for structure, variants, properties, and variables, designed to match how they're implemented in code
 * Owning the prioritization of Mana's maintenance and evolution work, and helping shape how contributions and governance work as the product grows
 * Exploring how AI, including skills and agents, can make Mana easier to use, maintain, and scale
 * Supporting product teams with empathy and clear reasoning: providing excellent support in help channels, working closely with product designers on contributions, and clearly explaining the difference between what goes against the system and personal preference
 * Extending Mana's visual language to new components and surfaces, bringing fresh ideas that evolve the system thoughtfully, in close collaboration with engineering in a co-owned system where ownership shifts based on what the work needs
 * Educating and evangelizing the system through simple-to-grasp documentation and tutorials, high-quality mocks and interactive prototypes, and design rationale presented cross-functionally and informed by user research and data


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