• Own the design of core Chess.com experiences • Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Copywriters, and leadership to help define the problem and build effective product experiences together • Design polished, intuitive interfaces for web and mobile using Chess.com’s design system • Present your design proposals and clearly articulate your decisions, backing them up with contextual rationale, heuristics, and user insights where possible • Build interactive prototypes to share and quickly test ideas using agentic tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and Figma Make • Own your projects from initial concept through to implementation and help ensure design-to-code alignment throughout the process • Be proactive about proposing and designing meaningful improvements to our product that make it more fun and consistent across surfaces • Give and seek out thoughtful design feedback to raise the bar for everyone

• Own and evolve ZUI, Zipline's design system, including component architecture, design tokens, accessibility standards, documentation, and implementation quality. Partner closely with engineering to ensure the system evolves alongside our product and technical architecture. • Establish shared interaction patterns, mental models, and design principles that create consistency across the product. Translate learnings from product work into reusable systems, frameworks, and foundations that can scale across teams. • Build the documentation, guidance, and decision-making frameworks that help designers, engineers, and PMs work independently and consistently. Drive adoption of the design system and product foundations across the organization. • Contribute to complex product initiatives, influence long-term product direction, and help define how emerging technologies, including AI, are incorporated into our design practice and workflows.

• Create user-centric designs for web and digital applications. • Develop wireframes, user flows, mockups, and interactive prototypes. • Convert business and user requirements into intuitive design solutions. • Execute UI designs aligned with usability, accessibility, and responsive design standards. • Contribute to design systems, reusable components, and UI consistency. • Participate in UX discovery sessions, brainstorming workshops, and requirement discussions. • Conduct basic UX research activities such as competitor analysis, heuristic reviews, and user journey mapping. • Collaborate closely with developers, business teams, product owners, and senior designers. • Support usability improvements through feedback analysis and iterative design enhancements. • Prepare client presentations, design walkthroughs, and documentation using PowerPoint or similar tools. • Ensure timely delivery of design assets and project deliverables. • Maintain design quality and adherence to brand and UX guidelines.

Role Description Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. Our mission on the Developer Platform Team is to help game studios succeed by creating meaningful experiences for players. - Work on tools studios use to integrate with Discord and player-facing experiences. - Design in-game ways to invite Discord friends, onboarding flows for studios, and new ways to bring game moments onto Discord. - Span surfaces like the developer portal, dashboards, self-serve tools, in-game overlays, and the Discord client. - Work across the full product development cycle—from early exploration through to launch and iteration. - Bring a thoughtful mix of user empathy, systems thinking, and visual craft to solve meaningful problems for developers and players. Qualifications - 5+ years of experience developing and leading design on central end-to-end consumer products across various platforms (web, mobile, desktop, console, etc). - Experience working on B2B/B2B2C products and platforms. - Expert-level experience with Figma and high-fidelity prototyping tools. - Strong product thinking and strategic vision. - Mastery of design craft, including typography, color theory, layout principles, and interaction design. - Compelling storytelling skills across multiple mediums. - Strong, proactive communication skills. - A desire to deeply understand the "why" before defining the "how". - Proficiency in data analysis and interpretation. - Experience working with and contributing to a design system. Requirements - Own the bar for craft, execution, and production quality for your immediate product team. - Actively influence your team's roadmap with a deep understanding of the product space. - Present designs to the team and the greater organization to drive alignment. - Identify gaps or improvements for the design system and contribute UX and design patterns. - Be an active peer and participant in the organization's design team and culture. Benefits - Base salary range: $188,000 to $211,500 + equity + benefits. - Salary determined by role and level, with individual pay based on skills, experience, and education. Company Description Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. 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.