The opportunity
Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on…
What you'll do
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
What they're looking for
- 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
- + 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
