Discord

Technical Recruiter

• Complete end-to-end ownership of your recruiting pipelines across Discord's different technical groups
• Understand how business goals affect the full hiring landscape and anticipate how organizational changes may improve hiring needs
• Develop relationships with hiring managers to understand their needs and help them meet their hiring goals
• An excitement to dive into the education and coaching of hiring managers in the Company’s employment processes including interview techniques, selection process, and hiring system processes
• Recruit qualified candidates through sourcing on multiple channels, reviewing incoming applicants, and maintaining a successful offer acceptance rate
• Identify process improvement areas and solutions, share and encourage best practices with the Recruiting, People Ops, and Executive team to ensure every candidate has a positive experience

Full-stack Engineer

• Design, build, and maintain features that help users connect and make friends through gaming on our platform, across desktop and mobile.
• Engage with developers, game studios and other partners to find opportunities and address challenges.
• Collaborate with Engineers, Designers, Product Owners, and Data Scientists.
• Partner with our Content, Marketing and ML teams to improve ranking and discovery systems.
• Build innovative features that help users discover new friendships and deepen existing ones.

Staff Software Engineer, New Gaming Features

• Design, build, and maintain features that help users connect and make friends through gaming.
• Engage with developers, game studios and other partners to find opportunities and challenges for a richer player experience.
• Collaborate with Engineers, Designers, Product Owners, and Data Scientists to create engaging experiences.
• Partner with Content, Marketing and ML teams to improve ranking and discovery systems.
• Build innovative features to help users discover new friendships.

Staff Software Engineer, Player Experience

Manager

• Manage and develop a team of policy experts with various experience levels, providing mentorship, strategic direction, and support for their professional growth
• Develop and maintain comprehensive content and product policies for Discord's revenue products, including advertising (Quests, Video Quests), Nitro subscriptions, creator monetisation, app monetisation, Developer Policy, and emerging commercial initiatives
• Serve as the primary policy advisor to revenue product leaders and developers, providing guidance on safety risk assessment, policy implications, and compliance requirements throughout the product development lifecycle
• Translate regulatory requirements (such as advertising standards, consumer protection laws, and platform integrity regulations) into actionable policy frameworks and operational guidance
• Collaborate with Trust & Safety to create clear, enforceable policy criteria and decision frameworks that scale across our global moderation workflows
• Partner with Legal to ensure policies align with regulatory obligations whilst enabling business objectives
• Work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Revenue, Sales, and Business Partnership teams to identify policy gaps, evaluate product changes, and balance user safety with product innovation
• Create external-facing policy documentation and user-facing communications that explain our commercial policies in Discord's authentic voice
• Monitor industry trends, peer company approaches, and emerging regulatory developments in online advertising, creator economies, and platform monetisation
• Lead policy reviews and risk assessments for new revenue product launches, providing strategic recommendations to senior leadership
• Represent Discord externally to business partners, advertisers, and other external stakeholders

Senior Manager, Ads, Revenue & Commerce Policy

Administration

• Manage the day to day administration of equity programs globally, overseeing everything from RSU and PRSU grants, option exercises, share transfers, repurchases, tax withholdings, and other equity transactions
• Partner with other functional leads (including in Legal, HR, Payroll, Tax, Accounting and Finance) to design and support equity incentive programs and ensure equity structures work effectively across different countries and comply with local regulations
• Develop processes and drive system implementations and integrations across our equity platform, Workday, and ADP to ensure accuracy and compliance
• Develop engaging employee education programs that help Discordians understand their equity—from the mechanics to the bigger picture of financial wellness and long-term value
• Ensure SOX compliance across all equity processes, building robust controls and documentation while constantly looking for ways to streamline and improve
• Provide a superior level of service, prioritizing and satisfying multiple questions and requests from employees, management, and others, supporting employee understanding of stock plan services, enrollment, and transactions
• Support executive compensation analysis and reporting, any required external disclosures, trading plans and SEC filings, if applicable.

Senior Manager, Stock Administration

Product Designer

• Develop a team of highly-engaged designers by coaching and instilling a sense of ownership and impact.
• Provide direction and guidance of product designers' output, promote partnerships and design process.
• Build close bonds with your corresponding engineering and product management leaders to influence product strategy and ensure world-class product execution.
• Partner with Staff+ designers and XFN partners to define and refine the design portions of the roadmap, ensuring work is appropriately broken down and prioritized.
• Set a strong pace for the team and foster a culture of quality by balancing holistic thinking with feature impact, cutting scope when needed without compromising quality.
• Make sound first-principle decisions around resourcing and team composition, adapting to changing needs or tuning team dynamics.
• Drive design excellence within your team and owned systems; mentor designers on user-centric thinking and risk mitigation.
• Occasionally be hands-on with design work, pitching in to support your team and keep them focused on deeper work—however this is primarily a management role.

Product Design Manager, Engagement

Director

• Lead Policy Development: Own the creation, iteration, and maintenance of Discord's core safety policies, including Community Guidelines and recommendations policies. Develop policy frameworks that balance user safety, freedom of expression, and operational feasibility while reflecting Discord's unique identity as a communications platform purpose-built for people who play games with their friends.
• Leverage ML & AI for Policy Innovation: Use LLMs and other AI technologies to develop, test, and iterate on policy language, enforcement criteria, and operational workflows. Build scalable approaches to policy development that combine human expertise with machine intelligence. Experiment with novel approaches to policy creation.
• Build and Lead a High-Performing Team: Manage, mentor, and grow a team of policy experts who are passionate about user safety and platform integrity. Foster a culture of rigorous thinking, creative problem-solving, and continuous learning. Develop future leaders who can navigate complex policy challenges with both empathy and analytical precision.
• Bridge Policy and Operations: Partner with Trust & Safety teams to ensure policies can be enforced consistently at scale. Co-create enforcement guidance, standard operating procedures, and training materials. Build feedback loops that help policy evolve based on operational reality and emerging harms.
• Navigate the Regulatory Landscape: Translate requirements from global regulations (DSA, Online Safety Act, platform-specific legislation) into actionable policy frameworks. Work with Legal and Platform Compliance teams to ensure Discord's policies meet regulatory obligations while preserving user experience. Anticipate regulatory trends and proactively position Discord's policy approach for future requirements.
• Support Product Teams: Advise product teams on safety risks and policy implications for new features and experiences. Develop frameworks for responsible product development that help teams move quickly while building safety in from the start. Provide clear guidance on policy boundaries and escalation paths for edge cases.
• Drive Thought Leadership: Represent Discord's policy approach externally through industry forums, academic partnerships, press, and civil society engagement. Contribute to advancing industry best practices in content moderation and platform governance. Build Discord's reputation as a leader in thoughtful, evidence-based policy development.

Director, Safety Policy

• Partner strategically with hiring managers and technical leaders to deeply understand role requirements, technical stack nuances, team dynamics, and ideal candidate profiles, translating technical requirements into effective sourcing criteria.
• Conduct comprehensive total addressable market (TAM) research to size talent pools, identify hiring feasibility, and inform realistic hiring timelines for niche technical roles.
• Develop detailed job mapping strategies by analyzing competitor organizations, identifying companies with relevant technical stacks, and creating target account lists that align with Discord's technical architecture and culture
• Build and execute customized sourcing strategies for each requisition, leveraging boolean search, x-ray techniques, and competitive intelligence to uncover and activate passive talent in highly specialized areas
• Identify and engage talent in their respective fields, and partner with our recruiters and technical leaders to scale and optimize our teams
• Craft highly personalized, compelling outreach campaigns that articulate Discord's unique technical challenges and demonstrate genuine understanding of candidates' work, engaging even the most passive senior, staff-level engineers and engineering managers.
• Own candidate experience from initial outreach through recruiter handoff, maintaining consistent communication, setting clear expectations, and ensuring smooth transitions that reflect Discord's candidate-first approach.
• Represent Discord's engineering brand at technical conferences, meetups, and industry events, building long-term relationships and nurturing talent communities for sustained pipeline development
• Practice strong data hygiene across our recruiting systems and maintain rigorous pipeline health metrics including interested response rates, activation rate, next step pass-through rate, and source effectiveness, using data to continuously optimize sourcing approaches and demonstrate ROI.

Technical Sourcer – Temporary

Software Engineer

• Build and lead multiple teams focused on commerce platform development and in-Discord player experience
• Define and drive our commerce platform strategy from the ground up
• Partner closely with major publishers and large game developers
• Collaborate with Product leadership to provide vision and culture for your teams
• Use technical expertise to build high-performance engineering teams
• Work with other Engineering leaders to continuously improve the Engineering organization

Director of Engineering, Developer Ecosystem

Security Engineer

• Shape company-wide security strategy and lead software engineering projects on a highly-autonomous and horizontally-integrated team with a lot of leverage. This is a code-forward role!
• Develop and apply best-in-class secure baselines for cloud infrastructure.
• Secure first- and third-party software supply chains, from the dev environment through CI/CD and into production.
• Build and own identity and access management (IAM) systems that are user-friendly and promote least privilege.
• Manage infrastructure vulnerabilities while supporting rapid growth for Engineering.
• Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, code reviews, and more—pragmatically balancing security with other business considerations.

Staff Software Engineer, Platform Security

• Help execute against our hiring goals, partnering with infrastructure and product engineering departments.
• Serve as a company brand ambassador as the first point of contact for many candidates.
• Understand how business goals impact the full hiring landscape and anticipate how organizational changes may impact hiring needs.
• Develop strong relationships with hiring managers to understand their needs and help them meet their hiring goals.
• Recruit top talent through sourcing on multiple channels, reviewing incoming applicants, sourcing candidates, and maintaining a successful offer acceptance rate.
• Innovate on ways to attract and source world class engineers.
• Identify process improvement areas and solutions, share and encourage best practices with the rest of the Recruiting, Recruiting Operations, and People teams to ensure every candidate has a positive experience.
• Develop a deep relationship with candidates by understanding their goals, values, and interests to match them to the right openings and strengthen the offer process.
• Assist on roles outside of Engineering and Product if open headcount volume warrants additional help.

Senior Technical Recruiter – Temporary

Content Marketing Manager

• Define and document copy and tone guidance within Mana, our Design System, creating the foundation for consistent, inclusive, and accessible language across Discord
• Collaborate with Brand, Legal, and Policy teams to align product language with company standards and values
• Build an AI-powered tool that enables teams to write their own copy following established guidelines, scaling your impact across the organization
• Build tools to catch non-compliant copy in code and suggests improvements, preventing issues before they reach users
• Partner with design and product teams to write and review critical in-product copy for major initiatives
• Establish a review process that catches copy-related risks before launch

Content Technologist – Temporary

Data Scientist

• Directly manage a 6-person Analytics Data Science team across junior to senior levels, providing right-sized coaching, feedback, and development support.
• Participate in Safety Leads group, building strong cross-functional relationships and contributing data-driven perspectives to safety strategy.
• Ensure quality of deliverables across the team through direct review or delegation to senior team members, maintaining and improving existing processes.
• Up-level the team’s ability to have more strategic impact by improving processes, stakeholder management, and driving ruthless prioritization.
• Develop your own strategic point of view of how Safety can be improved at Discord and drive change via thought leadership and/or deliverables from your team.

Data Science Manager, Safety

Engineering Manager

• Develop and execute a roadmap to build and optimize foundational datasets to ensure delivery of high-quality ergonomic data across multiple company verticals
• Develop and execute a roadmap to establish data quality as a given, at scale
• Partner with data platform teams to identify opportunities to improve infrastructure and influence their roadmaps accordingly
• Inform architectural decisions, establish best practices, develop lean scalable processes, and contribute to the overall direction of the data organization at Discord
• Grow a world-class team, expanding the impact and reach of data at Discord
• Establish a collaborative culture that thrives on innovation and impact

Data Engineering Manager

SEO Marketing

• Guide the product philosophy, vision, and roadmap for Discord’s search engine optimization (SEO)
• Lead cross-functional execution with a team of Engineers, Designers, ML engineers, and Data Scientists
• Drive improvements to our experimentation and web infrastructure
• Partner with other product teams across Discord
• Independently make decisions for your product area
• Clearly communicate roadmaps, priorities, experiments and decisions across a wide spectrum of audiences
• Define and own performance against key engagement metrics.