Most recent job postings at Discord
via AngelList
posted_at: 10 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
As an Anti-Spam Adaptive Data Specialist, you will be responsible for helping to keep Discord free of spam. The highly analytical and strategic position will be responsible for user questions and reports regarding spam, as well as influencing scaled approaches to uprooting new spam vectors before they impact users and for managing quality assurance of existing anti-spam measures. Successful... candidates will be highly collaborative and versatile
As an Anti-Spam Adaptive Data Specialist, you will be responsible for helping to keep Discord free of spam. The highly analytical and strategic position will be responsible for user questions and reports regarding spam, as well as influencing scaled approaches to uprooting new spam vectors before they impact users and for managing quality assurance of existing anti-spam measures. Successful... candidates will be highly collaborative and versatile in their approaches, be comfortable rolling up their sleeves to uncover abuse vectors as they take shape, and be able to communicate technical complexity and policy considerations with a range of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
What you'll be doing
• Own documentation and quality assurance of Discord’s scaled anti-spam efforts, and flag potential deviations to relevant stakeholders
• Think both quantitatively and qualitatively to create reports and suggestions that improve, optimize, and innovate our scaled anti-spam methods
• Analyze new and potential product features and propose plans to help reduce or remove spammy behavior before it happens
• Manage incoming streams of spam reports and spam-related appeals from users and communities to identify developing patterns of abuse
• Work cross-collaboratively with other teams, including Product, Safety Engineering, ML, CX in responding to complex and time-sensitive issues
What you should have
• 1-3+ years experience using data analysis and/or ad-hoc scripting to solve complex problems.
• Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and investigative skills: we believe in getting to the root of the matter instead of just addressing symptoms
• A strong interest in online harm mitigation--you’ve seen how seemingly safe features are abused by bad actors, and understand tradeoffs and risk that come with online interactions
• Previous experience with data analysis and/or scaled quality assurance
• Strong stakeholder management skills––you’re adept at improving processes and know how to leverage the skills of multiple disparate teams
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and make important decisions under pressure
• Excellent communication skills––you can efficiently and eloquently present ideas, updates and results to key stakeholders at various levels
Bonus Points
• Background in data and/or user-facing support roles, such as Trust & Safety or CX.
• High-level understanding of statistics concepts (e.g., hypothesis testing, probability distributions, relationship between variables)
• Demonstrated interest in anti-spam and/or responsible innovation initiatives
• Proficiency in various data analysis and scripting languages such as:
• SQL
• Python
• Git
• Familiarity with ticketing systems. (Ex. Zendesk)
New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $117,000/year + equity and benefits
• Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law.
Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $93,600/year + equity and benefits
• Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).
Discord focuses on Video Games, Messaging, Chat, and Technology. Their company has offices in San Francisco. They have a large team that's between 501-1000 employees. To date, Discord has raised $478.2M of funding; their latest round was closed on December 2020 at a valuation of $7B.
You can view their website at http://www.discord.com or find them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Product Hunt Show more details...
What you'll be doing
• Own documentation and quality assurance of Discord’s scaled anti-spam efforts, and flag potential deviations to relevant stakeholders
• Think both quantitatively and qualitatively to create reports and suggestions that improve, optimize, and innovate our scaled anti-spam methods
• Analyze new and potential product features and propose plans to help reduce or remove spammy behavior before it happens
• Manage incoming streams of spam reports and spam-related appeals from users and communities to identify developing patterns of abuse
• Work cross-collaboratively with other teams, including Product, Safety Engineering, ML, CX in responding to complex and time-sensitive issues
What you should have
• 1-3+ years experience using data analysis and/or ad-hoc scripting to solve complex problems.
• Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and investigative skills: we believe in getting to the root of the matter instead of just addressing symptoms
• A strong interest in online harm mitigation--you’ve seen how seemingly safe features are abused by bad actors, and understand tradeoffs and risk that come with online interactions
• Previous experience with data analysis and/or scaled quality assurance
• Strong stakeholder management skills––you’re adept at improving processes and know how to leverage the skills of multiple disparate teams
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and make important decisions under pressure
• Excellent communication skills––you can efficiently and eloquently present ideas, updates and results to key stakeholders at various levels
Bonus Points
• Background in data and/or user-facing support roles, such as Trust & Safety or CX.
• High-level understanding of statistics concepts (e.g., hypothesis testing, probability distributions, relationship between variables)
• Demonstrated interest in anti-spam and/or responsible innovation initiatives
• Proficiency in various data analysis and scripting languages such as:
• SQL
• Python
• Git
• Familiarity with ticketing systems. (Ex. Zendesk)
New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $117,000/year + equity and benefits
• Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law.
Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $93,600/year + equity and benefits
• Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).
Discord focuses on Video Games, Messaging, Chat, and Technology. Their company has offices in San Francisco. They have a large team that's between 501-1000 employees. To date, Discord has raised $478.2M of funding; their latest round was closed on December 2020 at a valuation of $7B.
You can view their website at http://www.discord.com or find them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Product Hunt Show more details...
via AngelList
posted_at: 10 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
As the Manager of Adaptive Data, you will manage and lead a team responsible for keeping Discord safe. You will work hand-in-hand with leaders across the Safety org, from Tech to Operations, to transform how we detect, respond to incidents, communicate to users, and measure impact. You will lead and invigorate a high-performing team that is skilled at uprooting new threat vectors before they... impact users.
We are looking for a leader that has done
As the Manager of Adaptive Data, you will manage and lead a team responsible for keeping Discord safe. You will work hand-in-hand with leaders across the Safety org, from Tech to Operations, to transform how we detect, respond to incidents, communicate to users, and measure impact. You will lead and invigorate a high-performing team that is skilled at uprooting new threat vectors before they... impact users.
We are looking for a leader that has done this before: you are comfortable rolling up your sleeves to uncover abuse vectors as they take shape AND you excel at building the necessary operational rigor to drive overall accountability for your team.
What you'll be doing
• Lead and manage a team of high performers, ensuring that individual and org level goals are met
• Coach and mentor team members to help them grow and develop professionally
• Stay up-to-date on industry trends for problem spaces, and combine information to make fast, high quality decisions with less than complete data
• Partner closely with Safety leadership, product, engineering and ops teams to in responding to complex and time-sensitive issues
You'll thrive in this role if
• 7+ years of experience, including minimum 2 years of experience managing high performing ICs
• A strong interest in online harm detection and mitigation--you’ve seen how seemingly safe features are abused by bad actors, and understand tradeoffs and risk that come with online interactions
• Affinity for a fast paced work environment, detecting and crafting solutions to high intensity problems with strong attention to detail and a high bar for quality
• Demonstrated ability to lead, influence other leaders and deliver complex projects involving multiple stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills, and the ability to use data to drive business decisions
Bonus Points
• Background in data and/or user-facing support roles, such as Trust & Safety or CX.
• High-level understanding of statistics concepts (e.g., hypothesis testing, probability distributions, relationship between variables)
• Proficiency in various data analysis and scripting languages such as:
• SQL
• Python
• Git
• Familiarity with ticketing systems. (Ex. Zendesk)
New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $168,000/year + equity and benefits
• Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law.
Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $134,400/year + equity and benefits
• Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).
#LI-Hybrid
Discord focuses on Video Games, Messaging, Chat, and Technology. Their company has offices in San Francisco. They have a large team that's between 501-1000 employees. To date, Discord has raised $478.2M of funding; their latest round was closed on December 2020 at a valuation of $7B.
You can view their website at http://www.discord.com or find them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Product Hunt Show more details...
We are looking for a leader that has done this before: you are comfortable rolling up your sleeves to uncover abuse vectors as they take shape AND you excel at building the necessary operational rigor to drive overall accountability for your team.
What you'll be doing
• Lead and manage a team of high performers, ensuring that individual and org level goals are met
• Coach and mentor team members to help them grow and develop professionally
• Stay up-to-date on industry trends for problem spaces, and combine information to make fast, high quality decisions with less than complete data
• Partner closely with Safety leadership, product, engineering and ops teams to in responding to complex and time-sensitive issues
You'll thrive in this role if
• 7+ years of experience, including minimum 2 years of experience managing high performing ICs
• A strong interest in online harm detection and mitigation--you’ve seen how seemingly safe features are abused by bad actors, and understand tradeoffs and risk that come with online interactions
• Affinity for a fast paced work environment, detecting and crafting solutions to high intensity problems with strong attention to detail and a high bar for quality
• Demonstrated ability to lead, influence other leaders and deliver complex projects involving multiple stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills, and the ability to use data to drive business decisions
Bonus Points
• Background in data and/or user-facing support roles, such as Trust & Safety or CX.
• High-level understanding of statistics concepts (e.g., hypothesis testing, probability distributions, relationship between variables)
• Proficiency in various data analysis and scripting languages such as:
• SQL
• Python
• Git
• Familiarity with ticketing systems. (Ex. Zendesk)
New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $168,000/year + equity and benefits
• Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law.
Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $134,400/year + equity and benefits
• Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).
#LI-Hybrid
Discord focuses on Video Games, Messaging, Chat, and Technology. Their company has offices in San Francisco. They have a large team that's between 501-1000 employees. To date, Discord has raised $478.2M of funding; their latest round was closed on December 2020 at a valuation of $7B.
You can view their website at http://www.discord.com or find them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Product Hunt Show more details...
via VentureLoop
posted_at: 7 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
Discord is about creating a space for everyone to find belonging in their lives. Hundreds of millions of people use Discord every week to have meaningful interactions.
The mission of the Content Recommendation team at Discord is to help users connect and engage with the online communities to create this belonging. We are working on enabling our users' experiences with search, recommendations... and smart notifications. We are just starting to build
Discord is about creating a space for everyone to find belonging in their lives. Hundreds of millions of people use Discord every week to have meaningful interactions.
The mission of the Content Recommendation team at Discord is to help users connect and engage with the online communities to create this belonging. We are working on enabling our users' experiences with search, recommendations... and smart notifications. We are just starting to build these ML driven user experiences and if you are someone who is passionate about building things from scratch, this could be a great opportunity for you!
What You'll Do:
• Care deeply about business outcomes and constraints and keep them in mind as they solve hard, unbounded problems; Work with product, data science, policy and UXR to create an ML driven product strategy.
• Collaborate with leadership and senior engineers across the team to define the technical vision and build on the technical roadmap for ML systems.
• Design and build large scale low latency machine learning systems for retrieval, ranking and personalization.
• Build generalizable infrastructure for retrieval, ranking and NLP, especially using MLOps stacks like TFX.
• Working with Engineering Managers and other Staff Engineers to make decisions for Discord and engineering function as a whole.
• Coach and mentor the next generation of technical leaders at Discord.
What You'll Need:
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative field including Computer Science, Physics, Applied Math, Statistics or other quantitative fields.
• 7+ years of software development experience, or 5+ years with an advanced degree.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally.
• Strong product sense, maintain a high degree of empathy for your internal and external users and seek feedback from them about your work
• First Principles mindset and approach. Comfortable with ambiguity and get excited about working collaboratively to figure out solutions to complex problems, and then implementing them.
• You have helped define the architecture, tooling, and strategy for large-scale machine learning systems and tools.
• You have shipped large-scale recommendation/ search / adsML systems; and you've worked with distributed systems deployed at scale.
• You have a deep understanding of seminal approaches to retrieval and ranking; and you keep up with the industry trends and can assess new technologies that can help us better solve problems.
New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $214,000/year + equity and benefits*Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency LawColorado residents only: Minimum salary of $171,200/year + equity and benefits*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).
Benefits and Perks
• Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures)
• Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
• 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
• Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
• Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
• Volunteer time off
• A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
• Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees
About Us
Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests — from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.
We’re working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding? Double heck yes. It’s a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us Show more details...
The mission of the Content Recommendation team at Discord is to help users connect and engage with the online communities to create this belonging. We are working on enabling our users' experiences with search, recommendations... and smart notifications. We are just starting to build these ML driven user experiences and if you are someone who is passionate about building things from scratch, this could be a great opportunity for you!
What You'll Do:
• Care deeply about business outcomes and constraints and keep them in mind as they solve hard, unbounded problems; Work with product, data science, policy and UXR to create an ML driven product strategy.
• Collaborate with leadership and senior engineers across the team to define the technical vision and build on the technical roadmap for ML systems.
• Design and build large scale low latency machine learning systems for retrieval, ranking and personalization.
• Build generalizable infrastructure for retrieval, ranking and NLP, especially using MLOps stacks like TFX.
• Working with Engineering Managers and other Staff Engineers to make decisions for Discord and engineering function as a whole.
• Coach and mentor the next generation of technical leaders at Discord.
What You'll Need:
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative field including Computer Science, Physics, Applied Math, Statistics or other quantitative fields.
• 7+ years of software development experience, or 5+ years with an advanced degree.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally.
• Strong product sense, maintain a high degree of empathy for your internal and external users and seek feedback from them about your work
• First Principles mindset and approach. Comfortable with ambiguity and get excited about working collaboratively to figure out solutions to complex problems, and then implementing them.
• You have helped define the architecture, tooling, and strategy for large-scale machine learning systems and tools.
• You have shipped large-scale recommendation/ search / adsML systems; and you've worked with distributed systems deployed at scale.
• You have a deep understanding of seminal approaches to retrieval and ranking; and you keep up with the industry trends and can assess new technologies that can help us better solve problems.
New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $214,000/year + equity and benefits*Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency LawColorado residents only: Minimum salary of $171,200/year + equity and benefits*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).
Benefits and Perks
• Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures)
• Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
• 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
• Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
• Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
• Volunteer time off
• A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
• Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees
About Us
Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests — from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.
We’re working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding? Double heck yes. It’s a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us Show more details...
via AngelList
posted_at: 8 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
At Discord, we believe everyone can find a place where they belong. Our team’s mission is to help make it easy for everyone to find and join meaningful conversations and to make every part of our product feel smart and delightful. We are looking for a strong technical leader to help build our Personalization team out and work across Product Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering, Design, Data... Science, Infrastructure, and other organizations
At Discord, we believe everyone can find a place where they belong. Our team’s mission is to help make it easy for everyone to find and join meaningful conversations and to make every part of our product feel smart and delightful. We are looking for a strong technical leader to help build our Personalization team out and work across Product Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering, Design, Data... Science, Infrastructure, and other organizations to achieve those goals. Come help make it easy for everyone to find the special moments that matter to them on Discord.
What you'll be doing
• Collaborate with engineers across our product and ML squads to build and iterate on new personalization products
• Partner with our ML Engineering and Platform teams to shape the future of ML products at Discord
• Take on critical technical challenges as we start to scale out our ML products
• Own major, complex initiatives that are essential to both our team’s and Discord’s success
• Develop deep expertise on both our tech stack and user behaviors to help set strategy and priorities for the team
• Work with other staff engineers across Discord to maintain a high technical bar for all our systems and products
• Coach and mentor engineers across our teams to help them level up and grow into the challenges we’re taking on
What you should have
• Full-stack experience. Our team need expertise on everything from user-facing features, our core infrastructure, and how we work with ML infrastructure to deliver on our goals.
• Technical leadership. We need someone who can step up and guide the technical direction of the team working in a space that is technically challenging and complicated across ML, Product, and Infrastructure. This means developing deep expertise as well as leveling up other engineers on the team.
• A builder’s mindset. This team is in its early days and has the opportunity to shape the direction of our products and infrastructure however we need to in order to succeed.
• Deep curiosity. Asking how things work and digging in is essential to understanding how we can personalize Discord for users, especially at scale.
• User empathy. At the end of the day, we can only be successful by making sure we are building products that bring joy and value to our users.
• Comfort in chaos. A lot of our work is exploratory and requires being comfortable working with new systems or having minimal prior work to build on top of.
• Ruthless prioritization. We have a lot of opportunities ahead of us, but we need engineers who can help make hard decisions both on what we should and shouldn’t do.
New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $214,000/year + equity and benefits
• Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law.
Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $171,200/year + equity and benefits
• Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).
#LI-HYBRID
Discord focuses on Video Games, Messaging, Chat, and Technology. Their company has offices in San Francisco. They have a large team that's between 501-1000 employees. To date, Discord has raised $478.2M of funding; their latest round was closed on December 2020 at a valuation of $7B.
You can view their website at http://www.discord.com or find them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Product Hunt Show more details...
What you'll be doing
• Collaborate with engineers across our product and ML squads to build and iterate on new personalization products
• Partner with our ML Engineering and Platform teams to shape the future of ML products at Discord
• Take on critical technical challenges as we start to scale out our ML products
• Own major, complex initiatives that are essential to both our team’s and Discord’s success
• Develop deep expertise on both our tech stack and user behaviors to help set strategy and priorities for the team
• Work with other staff engineers across Discord to maintain a high technical bar for all our systems and products
• Coach and mentor engineers across our teams to help them level up and grow into the challenges we’re taking on
What you should have
• Full-stack experience. Our team need expertise on everything from user-facing features, our core infrastructure, and how we work with ML infrastructure to deliver on our goals.
• Technical leadership. We need someone who can step up and guide the technical direction of the team working in a space that is technically challenging and complicated across ML, Product, and Infrastructure. This means developing deep expertise as well as leveling up other engineers on the team.
• A builder’s mindset. This team is in its early days and has the opportunity to shape the direction of our products and infrastructure however we need to in order to succeed.
• Deep curiosity. Asking how things work and digging in is essential to understanding how we can personalize Discord for users, especially at scale.
• User empathy. At the end of the day, we can only be successful by making sure we are building products that bring joy and value to our users.
• Comfort in chaos. A lot of our work is exploratory and requires being comfortable working with new systems or having minimal prior work to build on top of.
• Ruthless prioritization. We have a lot of opportunities ahead of us, but we need engineers who can help make hard decisions both on what we should and shouldn’t do.
New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $214,000/year + equity and benefits
• Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law.
Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $171,200/year + equity and benefits
• Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).
#LI-HYBRID
Discord focuses on Video Games, Messaging, Chat, and Technology. Their company has offices in San Francisco. They have a large team that's between 501-1000 employees. To date, Discord has raised $478.2M of funding; their latest round was closed on December 2020 at a valuation of $7B.
You can view their website at http://www.discord.com or find them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Product Hunt Show more details...
via Hitmarker
posted_at: 3 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
Discord is your place to talk. Whether you're part of a school club, gaming group, worldwide art community, or just a handful of friends that want to spend time together, millions of people use Discord every day to create connections, hang out, and talk.
At the heart of Discord's communities is Safety. The Safety team at Discord is responsible for ensuring users find belonging by minimizing... exposure to platform abuse. We are excited to find others
Discord is your place to talk. Whether you're part of a school club, gaming group, worldwide art community, or just a handful of friends that want to spend time together, millions of people use Discord every day to create connections, hang out, and talk.
At the heart of Discord's communities is Safety. The Safety team at Discord is responsible for ensuring users find belonging by minimizing... exposure to platform abuse. We are excited to find others passionate about making sure Discord is a safe and welcoming place for our users and hope you can join us on this mission.
We're looking for a Product Manager to join us and lead this important area. You will responsible for creating a vision, building systems and features, and ideating creative solutions to advance our mission towards Safety at Discord.
What you'll be doing
• Drive the product philosophy, vision, and roadmap to enable and scale detection and remediation of harmful content.
• Lead cross-functional execution with engineers, designers, data scientists, ML, security, legal, policy and trust and safety analysts to build scalable systems and internal tools that keep our users and communities safe from abuse.
• Partner closely with operational teams to build creative solutions for problems — this work spans machine learning solutions to heuristics to building delightful features for our teams.
• Define and own performance against key business metrics and proactively report progress against those goals to the relevant stakeholders.
• Propose projects that anticipate upcoming product needs to stop abuse that will work at Discord scale, and help drive the vision for preventing abuse on the platform.
You’ll Thrive In This Role If…
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, excited about finding solutions to complex problems, and then executing on them
• Passionate about Discord and about keeping users safe from abuse
• 2-3+ years product management experience or experience building and shipping great software, including responsibilities driving prioritization, trade-offs, and timelines.
• Proven track record of shipping products from design to deployment.
• Strong analytical ability to quickly organize and leverage data to make informed product decisions with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Sufficient technical domain expertise to drive alignment on technical requirements with Platform, ML and Security stakeholders.
Bonus Points
• Previous work in Spam, Abuse or Trust & Safety or passion in learning.
• Passionate about building solutions for internal customers
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant technical experience.
New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $135,000/year + equity and benefits Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law.
Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $108,000/year + equity and benefits Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).
Benefits and Perks
• Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures)
• Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
• 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
• Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
• Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
• Volunteer time off
• A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
• Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees
About Us
Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests — from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.
We’re working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding? Double heck yes. It’s a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us Show more details...
At the heart of Discord's communities is Safety. The Safety team at Discord is responsible for ensuring users find belonging by minimizing... exposure to platform abuse. We are excited to find others passionate about making sure Discord is a safe and welcoming place for our users and hope you can join us on this mission.
We're looking for a Product Manager to join us and lead this important area. You will responsible for creating a vision, building systems and features, and ideating creative solutions to advance our mission towards Safety at Discord.
What you'll be doing
• Drive the product philosophy, vision, and roadmap to enable and scale detection and remediation of harmful content.
• Lead cross-functional execution with engineers, designers, data scientists, ML, security, legal, policy and trust and safety analysts to build scalable systems and internal tools that keep our users and communities safe from abuse.
• Partner closely with operational teams to build creative solutions for problems — this work spans machine learning solutions to heuristics to building delightful features for our teams.
• Define and own performance against key business metrics and proactively report progress against those goals to the relevant stakeholders.
• Propose projects that anticipate upcoming product needs to stop abuse that will work at Discord scale, and help drive the vision for preventing abuse on the platform.
You’ll Thrive In This Role If…
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, excited about finding solutions to complex problems, and then executing on them
• Passionate about Discord and about keeping users safe from abuse
• 2-3+ years product management experience or experience building and shipping great software, including responsibilities driving prioritization, trade-offs, and timelines.
• Proven track record of shipping products from design to deployment.
• Strong analytical ability to quickly organize and leverage data to make informed product decisions with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Sufficient technical domain expertise to drive alignment on technical requirements with Platform, ML and Security stakeholders.
Bonus Points
• Previous work in Spam, Abuse or Trust & Safety or passion in learning.
• Passionate about building solutions for internal customers
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant technical experience.
New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $135,000/year + equity and benefits Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law.
Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $108,000/year + equity and benefits Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).
Benefits and Perks
• Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures)
• Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
• 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
• Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
• Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
• Volunteer time off
• A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
• Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees
About Us
Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests — from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.
We’re working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding? Double heck yes. It’s a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us Show more details...
via AngelList
schedule_type: Internshipwork_from_home: 1
The Summer Internship
At Discord, we offer a personalized experience for interns, and our aim is to offer an experience that mimics what it is like to actually work here. We match qualified interns with projects and groups, based on interests and skill sets and fully embed interns within those groups for the summer. Internships are paid and are a minimum of 12 weeks, targeting a start date in... June to accommodate varying school calendars. Conditions
The Summer Internship
At Discord, we offer a personalized experience for interns, and our aim is to offer an experience that mimics what it is like to actually work here. We match qualified interns with projects and groups, based on interests and skill sets and fully embed interns within those groups for the summer. Internships are paid and are a minimum of 12 weeks, targeting a start date in... June to accommodate varying school calendars. Conditions permitting, our 2023 summer internships will be remote, with an opportunity to spend a week in the office at some point during the program.
The Team
The Machine Learning Platform team is the foundation that machine learning and data science at Discord rely on to help our users find belonging in a safe and welcoming space. Our aim is to create the best experience throughout the machine learning workflow, from training to serving. We supplement our platform with core and widely applicable datasets and models.
What you'll be doing
• You will own and complete a project that is relevant to our platform. It will go into production.
• You will work side-by side with other engineers, gaining experience in collaboration, planning, and engineering best practices.
• You will learn what it takes to put machine learning into production at scale.
You’ll Thrive In This Role If You Are/Have (Role Requirements)...
• Currently enrolled in a Bachelors (rising Junior or Senior) course of study
• You have a passion for building software and understanding complex systems.
• You want to learn to work on a platform team and grow your skills in how to build tools for other engineers.
• You want exposure to the whole machine learning workflow.
• You are interested in the MLOps side of machine learning.
Salary of $67/hour*
• Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law and CO Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20)
• Benefits listed below may differ from those available depending on terms of employment*
Discord focuses on Video Games, Messaging, Chat, and Technology. Their company has offices in San Francisco. They have a large team that's between 501-1000 employees. To date, Discord has raised $478.2M of funding; their latest round was closed on December 2020 at a valuation of $7B.
You can view their website at http://www.discord.com or find them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Product Hunt Show more details...
At Discord, we offer a personalized experience for interns, and our aim is to offer an experience that mimics what it is like to actually work here. We match qualified interns with projects and groups, based on interests and skill sets and fully embed interns within those groups for the summer. Internships are paid and are a minimum of 12 weeks, targeting a start date in... June to accommodate varying school calendars. Conditions permitting, our 2023 summer internships will be remote, with an opportunity to spend a week in the office at some point during the program.
The Team
The Machine Learning Platform team is the foundation that machine learning and data science at Discord rely on to help our users find belonging in a safe and welcoming space. Our aim is to create the best experience throughout the machine learning workflow, from training to serving. We supplement our platform with core and widely applicable datasets and models.
What you'll be doing
• You will own and complete a project that is relevant to our platform. It will go into production.
• You will work side-by side with other engineers, gaining experience in collaboration, planning, and engineering best practices.
• You will learn what it takes to put machine learning into production at scale.
You’ll Thrive In This Role If You Are/Have (Role Requirements)...
• Currently enrolled in a Bachelors (rising Junior or Senior) course of study
• You have a passion for building software and understanding complex systems.
• You want to learn to work on a platform team and grow your skills in how to build tools for other engineers.
• You want exposure to the whole machine learning workflow.
• You are interested in the MLOps side of machine learning.
Salary of $67/hour*
• Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law and CO Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20)
• Benefits listed below may differ from those available depending on terms of employment*
Discord focuses on Video Games, Messaging, Chat, and Technology. Their company has offices in San Francisco. They have a large team that's between 501-1000 employees. To date, Discord has raised $478.2M of funding; their latest round was closed on December 2020 at a valuation of $7B.
You can view their website at http://www.discord.com or find them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Product Hunt Show more details...
via AngelList
posted_at: 9 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
Activities is a new feature that allows groups of friends to play casual games on Discord. The variety of activities is continuously growing, and the ways in which friends can connect and participate continues to evolve. The Activities Platform team supports our developers and game studios by providing all the tools necessary to build these magical experiences for all users of Discord.
Our team... is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join
Activities is a new feature that allows groups of friends to play casual games on Discord. The variety of activities is continuously growing, and the ways in which friends can connect and participate continues to evolve. The Activities Platform team supports our developers and game studios by providing all the tools necessary to build these magical experiences for all users of Discord.
Our team... is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join this mission, and help us inspire and support the future of activities. Discord asks the world to 'Imagine a Place', and the Activities Platform team provides the way for people to come and build what they've imagined.
What you'll be doing
• Work with the Activities Platform team to maintain the SDK, APIs and platform services for Activities
• Collaborate with design, product and other engineers to introduce new features used by our +175M monthly active users
• Support numerous internal and external game studios building new activities on Discord
• Help design and build new tools for developers, and expand the community of developers using our platform to build new activities
• Participate at all levels of ideation, implementation and release
• Have a genuine say in the details, and have fun doing it!
What you should have
• 5+ years experience with web development (React, TypeScript, HTML5)
• Experience across the full-stack including API design and fundamentals
• Familiarity with mobile development (React Native or Swift/Kotlin)
• Experience working on a multi-platform product supporting desktop app, web and mobile
• Experience working within cross-functional teams
• Proven ability to discuss and explain complex technical subjects in simple, succinct language
• Ability to apply first principles thinking towards pragmatic solutions to complex problems
• Empathy for both internal and external users, and a desire to receive qualitative feedback
Bonus Points
• Experience building or maintaining developer-facing products, SDKs, libraries or services
• Experience building HTML5-based games for desktop or mobile
• Strong open-source leadership or contributions
New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $186,000/year + equity and benefits
• Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law.
Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $148,800 /year + equity and benefits
• Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).
#LI-HYBRID
• Knowledge of performance metrics such as CPU and memory usage
- Experience making hard tradeoffs between important goals to get the right things built quickly
Discord focuses on Video Games, Messaging, Chat, and Technology. Their company has offices in San Francisco. They have a large team that's between 501-1000 employees. To date, Discord has raised $478.2M of funding; their latest round was closed on December 2020 at a valuation of $7B.
You can view their website at http://www.discord.com or find them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Product Hunt Show more details...
Our team... is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join this mission, and help us inspire and support the future of activities. Discord asks the world to 'Imagine a Place', and the Activities Platform team provides the way for people to come and build what they've imagined.
What you'll be doing
• Work with the Activities Platform team to maintain the SDK, APIs and platform services for Activities
• Collaborate with design, product and other engineers to introduce new features used by our +175M monthly active users
• Support numerous internal and external game studios building new activities on Discord
• Help design and build new tools for developers, and expand the community of developers using our platform to build new activities
• Participate at all levels of ideation, implementation and release
• Have a genuine say in the details, and have fun doing it!
What you should have
• 5+ years experience with web development (React, TypeScript, HTML5)
• Experience across the full-stack including API design and fundamentals
• Familiarity with mobile development (React Native or Swift/Kotlin)
• Experience working on a multi-platform product supporting desktop app, web and mobile
• Experience working within cross-functional teams
• Proven ability to discuss and explain complex technical subjects in simple, succinct language
• Ability to apply first principles thinking towards pragmatic solutions to complex problems
• Empathy for both internal and external users, and a desire to receive qualitative feedback
Bonus Points
• Experience building or maintaining developer-facing products, SDKs, libraries or services
• Experience building HTML5-based games for desktop or mobile
• Strong open-source leadership or contributions
New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $186,000/year + equity and benefits
• Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law.
Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $148,800 /year + equity and benefits
• Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).
#LI-HYBRID
• Knowledge of performance metrics such as CPU and memory usage
- Experience making hard tradeoffs between important goals to get the right things built quickly
Discord focuses on Video Games, Messaging, Chat, and Technology. Their company has offices in San Francisco. They have a large team that's between 501-1000 employees. To date, Discord has raised $478.2M of funding; their latest round was closed on December 2020 at a valuation of $7B.
You can view their website at http://www.discord.com or find them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Product Hunt Show more details...
via AngelList
schedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
Discord is on a mission to build the best place to hang out. The opportunity ahead of us requires skills in understanding people, a fresh perspective on what makes a great social experience, and cranking up moments of delight. That's where you come in.
Discord is looking for a Creative Director to lead our product and creative system function for all in-product experiences, working with the... in-house brand team and the Product Design team to ensure
Discord is on a mission to build the best place to hang out. The opportunity ahead of us requires skills in understanding people, a fresh perspective on what makes a great social experience, and cranking up moments of delight. That's where you come in.
Discord is looking for a Creative Director to lead our product and creative system function for all in-product experiences, working with the... in-house brand team and the Product Design team to ensure the way Discord shows up in the world matches the experience inside the product.
Leading the team that produces the functional and creative elements makes Discord the best place to hang out. We're looking for someone who loves to inspire others and find inspiration in the wonderfully diverse communities we welcome on Discord.
Working with the Brand team, this candidate will define the common principles and develop a clear, inspiring, and actionable vision about how the product's creative content should appear in the product. You'll be expected to build trusted cross-functional relationships with the marketing, development, and design leaders across Discord, leading the work through ideation to execution while keeping the team engaged and inspired.
At Discord, no interest is too niche, and no community is too full. We welcome those who reach toward the edges to find inspiration, shared experiences, and new friends. We are a fun, sometimes silly, and always collaborative team. We focus on creating the highest quality experiences that create belonging above all else.
What you'll be doing
• Lead and develop the teams responsible for producing our in-product creative content. This includes art direction, illustration, motion, and audio content as well as defining overall tone and voice.
• The role will lead the work across the whole spectrum of in-product systems:
• Product Design Systems like icons, product components, motion, and UI libraries.
• In-product Creative assets like emojis, stickers, and profile decorations that people use to communicate and express themselves. Illustration and animation in the product that delight and inform how Discord works.
• Finally, the content strategy, tone of voice, and words used to guide people through their Discord journey.
• Bring new, creative ideas and approaches to our product and processes that blend traditional brand creative into our product features.
• Exceptional quality at the speed of development. You will lead and continually produce content that matches the pace and quality of feature development. Working closely with the product and marketing teams to iterate the design and creative elements as we learn how it works.
• Create a deep culture of collaboration, feedback, and openness as your team partners with Product Marketers, Product, Design, Brand, and more to bring great work to life.
What you should have
• 10+ years experience in product design, creative, or art direction
• 6+ years leading a creative team at an agency or in-house
• Excellent ability to explain your creative vision and inspire others, but also solicit and listen to feedback
• You lead with passion and vision, and inspire others to deliver their best work while keeping them engaged and happy
• A portfolio that shows your impact leading.
• Product design systems
• Creative for in-product content ( bonus for Emojis, stickers, illustration styles, content templates, etc)
• Content Strategy, Tone of Voice and UX writing.
• Expertise in leading and managing cross-disciplinary teams of product designers and brand creatives to produce moments of delight in products.
• Experience in treating creative teams as a business function. Leading the team with an equal emphasis on world-class creative development at a high pace while monitoring the results to improve continually.
Bonus Points
• Familiar with Product designers and the tools they use.
• Familiar with 3D and 2D illustrators and the tools they use
• Familiar with Animators/Motion Designers and the tools they use
New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $199,800/year + equity and benefits
• Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law.
Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $188,700/year + equity and benefits
• Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).
Discord focuses on Video Games, Messaging, Chat, and Technology. Their company has offices in San Francisco. They have a large team that's between 501-1000 employees. To date, Discord has raised $478.2M of funding; their latest round was closed on December 2020 at a valuation of $7B.
You can view their website at http://www.discord.com or find them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Product Hunt Show more details...
Discord is looking for a Creative Director to lead our product and creative system function for all in-product experiences, working with the... in-house brand team and the Product Design team to ensure the way Discord shows up in the world matches the experience inside the product.
Leading the team that produces the functional and creative elements makes Discord the best place to hang out. We're looking for someone who loves to inspire others and find inspiration in the wonderfully diverse communities we welcome on Discord.
Working with the Brand team, this candidate will define the common principles and develop a clear, inspiring, and actionable vision about how the product's creative content should appear in the product. You'll be expected to build trusted cross-functional relationships with the marketing, development, and design leaders across Discord, leading the work through ideation to execution while keeping the team engaged and inspired.
At Discord, no interest is too niche, and no community is too full. We welcome those who reach toward the edges to find inspiration, shared experiences, and new friends. We are a fun, sometimes silly, and always collaborative team. We focus on creating the highest quality experiences that create belonging above all else.
What you'll be doing
• Lead and develop the teams responsible for producing our in-product creative content. This includes art direction, illustration, motion, and audio content as well as defining overall tone and voice.
• The role will lead the work across the whole spectrum of in-product systems:
• Product Design Systems like icons, product components, motion, and UI libraries.
• In-product Creative assets like emojis, stickers, and profile decorations that people use to communicate and express themselves. Illustration and animation in the product that delight and inform how Discord works.
• Finally, the content strategy, tone of voice, and words used to guide people through their Discord journey.
• Bring new, creative ideas and approaches to our product and processes that blend traditional brand creative into our product features.
• Exceptional quality at the speed of development. You will lead and continually produce content that matches the pace and quality of feature development. Working closely with the product and marketing teams to iterate the design and creative elements as we learn how it works.
• Create a deep culture of collaboration, feedback, and openness as your team partners with Product Marketers, Product, Design, Brand, and more to bring great work to life.
What you should have
• 10+ years experience in product design, creative, or art direction
• 6+ years leading a creative team at an agency or in-house
• Excellent ability to explain your creative vision and inspire others, but also solicit and listen to feedback
• You lead with passion and vision, and inspire others to deliver their best work while keeping them engaged and happy
• A portfolio that shows your impact leading.
• Product design systems
• Creative for in-product content ( bonus for Emojis, stickers, illustration styles, content templates, etc)
• Content Strategy, Tone of Voice and UX writing.
• Expertise in leading and managing cross-disciplinary teams of product designers and brand creatives to produce moments of delight in products.
• Experience in treating creative teams as a business function. Leading the team with an equal emphasis on world-class creative development at a high pace while monitoring the results to improve continually.
Bonus Points
• Familiar with Product designers and the tools they use.
• Familiar with 3D and 2D illustrators and the tools they use
• Familiar with Animators/Motion Designers and the tools they use
New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $199,800/year + equity and benefits
• Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law.
Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $188,700/year + equity and benefits
• Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).
Discord focuses on Video Games, Messaging, Chat, and Technology. Their company has offices in San Francisco. They have a large team that's between 501-1000 employees. To date, Discord has raised $478.2M of funding; their latest round was closed on December 2020 at a valuation of $7B.
You can view their website at http://www.discord.com or find them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Product Hunt Show more details...
via AngelList
schedule_type: Internship
The Summer Internship
At Discord, we offer a personalized experience for interns, and our aim is to offer an experience that mimics what it is like to actually work here. We match qualified interns with projects and groups, based on interests and skill sets and fully embed interns within those groups for the summer. Internships are paid and are a minimum of 12 weeks, targeting a start date in... June to accommodate varying school calendars. Conditions
The Summer Internship
At Discord, we offer a personalized experience for interns, and our aim is to offer an experience that mimics what it is like to actually work here. We match qualified interns with projects and groups, based on interests and skill sets and fully embed interns within those groups for the summer. Internships are paid and are a minimum of 12 weeks, targeting a start date in... June to accommodate varying school calendars. Conditions permitting, our 2023 summer internships will be remote, with an opportunity to spend a week in the office at some point during the program.
The Team
The Security Engineering team at Discord collaborates across Engineering, IT, and Product to build services, tools, and functionality that help keep Discord safe. We implement solutions so that the rest of the company can move quickly while maintaining peace of mind that they will be building in a secure way.
What you'll be doing
• Application Security
• Build and deploy tooling to help internal teams visualized and understand their security posture.
• Build functionality to extend our use of Code Stewards at Discord
• Platform Security
• Investigate and expand our use of canaries internally throughout our infrastructure to better identify bad actors as they attack
• Deploy tooling to visualize our infrastructure assets and recommend pragmatic security improvements with that information (e.g. Cartography)
• Improve tooling around our IAM and access requests flows to bring them closer to our users
• Detection & Response
• Build integrations for data enrichment to our current log sources and improve current detections capabilities
• Expand our visibility by identifying log sources for ingestion or deploying canary in our corporate/production environment
• Design and implement response automation work
• Build tools or scripts to integrate with our current infrastructure to perform endpoint forensic collections for different OS flavors (Mac, windows, linux)
• Enterprise Security
• Help build infrastructure to support trusted devices in a zero-trust environment
• Deploy tooling to eliminate Discord’s reliance on VPN technologies
You’ll Thrive In This Role If (Role Requirements)...
• You are in the process of obtaining a Bachelors (rising Junior or Senior), Masters, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field.
• You have a passion for solving security problems with software!
• You are proficient in Python, Rust, or similar programming language.
Salary of $67/hour*
• Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law and CO Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20)
• Benefits listed below may differ from those available depending on terms of employment*
Discord focuses on Video Games, Messaging, Chat, and Technology. Their company has offices in San Francisco. They have a large team that's between 501-1000 employees. To date, Discord has raised $478.2M of funding; their latest round was closed on December 2020 at a valuation of $7B.
You can view their website at http://www.discord.com or find them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Product Hunt Show more details...
At Discord, we offer a personalized experience for interns, and our aim is to offer an experience that mimics what it is like to actually work here. We match qualified interns with projects and groups, based on interests and skill sets and fully embed interns within those groups for the summer. Internships are paid and are a minimum of 12 weeks, targeting a start date in... June to accommodate varying school calendars. Conditions permitting, our 2023 summer internships will be remote, with an opportunity to spend a week in the office at some point during the program.
The Team
The Security Engineering team at Discord collaborates across Engineering, IT, and Product to build services, tools, and functionality that help keep Discord safe. We implement solutions so that the rest of the company can move quickly while maintaining peace of mind that they will be building in a secure way.
What you'll be doing
• Application Security
• Build and deploy tooling to help internal teams visualized and understand their security posture.
• Build functionality to extend our use of Code Stewards at Discord
• Platform Security
• Investigate and expand our use of canaries internally throughout our infrastructure to better identify bad actors as they attack
• Deploy tooling to visualize our infrastructure assets and recommend pragmatic security improvements with that information (e.g. Cartography)
• Improve tooling around our IAM and access requests flows to bring them closer to our users
• Detection & Response
• Build integrations for data enrichment to our current log sources and improve current detections capabilities
• Expand our visibility by identifying log sources for ingestion or deploying canary in our corporate/production environment
• Design and implement response automation work
• Build tools or scripts to integrate with our current infrastructure to perform endpoint forensic collections for different OS flavors (Mac, windows, linux)
• Enterprise Security
• Help build infrastructure to support trusted devices in a zero-trust environment
• Deploy tooling to eliminate Discord’s reliance on VPN technologies
You’ll Thrive In This Role If (Role Requirements)...
• You are in the process of obtaining a Bachelors (rising Junior or Senior), Masters, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field.
• You have a passion for solving security problems with software!
• You are proficient in Python, Rust, or similar programming language.
Salary of $67/hour*
• Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law and CO Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20)
• Benefits listed below may differ from those available depending on terms of employment*
Discord focuses on Video Games, Messaging, Chat, and Technology. Their company has offices in San Francisco. They have a large team that's between 501-1000 employees. To date, Discord has raised $478.2M of funding; their latest round was closed on December 2020 at a valuation of $7B.
You can view their website at http://www.discord.com or find them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Product Hunt Show more details...
via AngelList
posted_at: 20 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
Discord is seeking a Director of Technical Accounting & Financial Reporting for a hands-on role where you'll be responsible for the more technical aspects of US GAAP including establishing high quality internal and external financial reporting. Reporting to the Chief Accounting Officer, this role will be a trusted business partner on accounting and SEC matters and key member of the finance... leadership team.
What you’ll be doing
• Manage all
Discord is seeking a Director of Technical Accounting & Financial Reporting for a hands-on role where you'll be responsible for the more technical aspects of US GAAP including establishing high quality internal and external financial reporting. Reporting to the Chief Accounting Officer, this role will be a trusted business partner on accounting and SEC matters and key member of the finance... leadership team.
What you’ll be doing
• Manage all aspects of financial reporting including preparation of quarterly and annual financial statements, analysis, and disclosures that meet SEC standards (10Qs,10Ks, and S-1) as well as support internal management reporting needs.
• Partner cross functionally with Finance, Legal, and other Accounting teams to drive continuous improvements in business analysis, systems, processes and controls that will enable public company readiness.
• Identify, research, and document the Company's technical accounting matters and provide operational accounting support for complex areas such as equity, capitalized software development, goodwill and intangibles, etc.
• Oversee coordination of annual audit and quarterly reviews; proactively address non-standard or technical accounting issues with auditors to ensure timely resolution.
• Draft, update and maintain the Company’s accounting policies, educate the broader accounting team on application of policies and drive the implementation of any changes in policies or adoption of new US GAAP standards.
• Lead due diligence, purchase accounting, finance integration, and stakeholder engagement associated with mergers and acquisitions.
You will thrive in the role if you have
• A Bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting; CPA license required
• 10+ years of accounting / financial reporting experience, 3+ of those years in public accounting
• Expertise in US GAAP and SEC reporting requirements with an ability to research and interpret technical accounting guidance.
• A proactive approach to problem identification and solution implementation
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and an ability to partner cross functionally beyond finance and accounting
• Superior attention to detail
#LI-Remote
Discord focuses on Video Games, Messaging, Chat, and Technology. Their company has offices in San Francisco. They have a large team that's between 501-1000 employees. To date, Discord has raised $478.2M of funding; their latest round was closed on December 2020 at a valuation of $7B.
You can view their website at http://www.discord.com or find them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Product Hunt Show more details...
What you’ll be doing
• Manage all aspects of financial reporting including preparation of quarterly and annual financial statements, analysis, and disclosures that meet SEC standards (10Qs,10Ks, and S-1) as well as support internal management reporting needs.
• Partner cross functionally with Finance, Legal, and other Accounting teams to drive continuous improvements in business analysis, systems, processes and controls that will enable public company readiness.
• Identify, research, and document the Company's technical accounting matters and provide operational accounting support for complex areas such as equity, capitalized software development, goodwill and intangibles, etc.
• Oversee coordination of annual audit and quarterly reviews; proactively address non-standard or technical accounting issues with auditors to ensure timely resolution.
• Draft, update and maintain the Company’s accounting policies, educate the broader accounting team on application of policies and drive the implementation of any changes in policies or adoption of new US GAAP standards.
• Lead due diligence, purchase accounting, finance integration, and stakeholder engagement associated with mergers and acquisitions.
You will thrive in the role if you have
• A Bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting; CPA license required
• 10+ years of accounting / financial reporting experience, 3+ of those years in public accounting
• Expertise in US GAAP and SEC reporting requirements with an ability to research and interpret technical accounting guidance.
• A proactive approach to problem identification and solution implementation
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and an ability to partner cross functionally beyond finance and accounting
• Superior attention to detail
#LI-Remote
Discord focuses on Video Games, Messaging, Chat, and Technology. Their company has offices in San Francisco. They have a large team that's between 501-1000 employees. To date, Discord has raised $478.2M of funding; their latest round was closed on December 2020 at a valuation of $7B.
You can view their website at http://www.discord.com or find them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Product Hunt Show more details...