Engineering Manager, Core Product

Discord is a platform used by over 200 million people for gaming and social interaction. They are seeking an Engineering Manager for their Core Product Engagement team to lead full stack engineers in improving core experiences and building key features that enhance user connection.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, UX Research, and Marketing to drive your team’s vision and roadmap
• Make sound first-principle decisions around resourcing, and making the rationale clear to partners and team members
• Partner with your org leader on strategic planning and to improve the Engineering organization and uphold our workplace philosophy
• Helping drive product decisions with our goals in mind and holding a high bar for the quality of our features
• Use your technical expertise to move fast, make tradeoffs, and ensure your team delivers with high quality

Requirements:

• You are a Discord user, and understand the core features and flow of Discord
• You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, working across the stack (mobile, web, backend) building user experiences
• You have 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, leading teams of 5 or more engineers building user facing products
• You have a product sense and take pride in understanding your customers
• You have worked in a product team with clear metrics goals
• You are very goal oriented and always strive to win
• You are motivated to help your team members succeed and have experience growing engineers
• You are excited to get hands-on – we're looking for someone to manage primarily but our leaders should feel very comfortable jumping into code to understand our product better, brainstorming technical solutions, and making changes directly
• You have worked on a social or messaging consumer product
• You have experience with React Native