Senior Product Creative Illustrator

Overview

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming.

We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.

The Discord Creative Systems Team is seeking a versatile systems illustrator with strong technical craft and conceptual ideation skills. The ideal candidate combines illustration expertise with systematic thinking and precision in designing for product environments. You’ll enhance the user experience by creating cohesive iconography, illustrations, and abstracted UI graphics that bring consistency and delight to Discord's visual language. We’re looking for someone who can independently craft thoughtful graphics, establish and document design guidelines, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to align creative work with product goals.

Our work on Creative Systems focuses on designing scalable creative solutions and maintaining the system that defines how graphics are used and experienced on Discord. This includes developing icons, illustrations and abstracted UI that communicate features clearly, collaborating with animators, and codifying guidelines that ensure consistency while allowing for creative evolution.