Discord

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 making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. The Consumer Revenue org sits at the center of how we build a sustainable business around that community. We're looking for a talented Staff Engineer to join teams working across premium experiences and core user identity, shaping the technical strategy that ties it all together. You'll work across surfaces like Nitro, Shop, Server Boosting, and User Identity to build a premium Discord that delivers real value to subscribers without compromising the core experience for our free users. In this full-stack product engineering role , you'll collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, Design, Marketing, and other functions to create best-in-class consumer experiences. Your work will cover the full breadth of the technical stack, from backend data modeling, through business logic in APIs, to polished, user-facing interfaces. You’ll be supported by infrastructure, platform, and product teams on your mission to build the best premium Discord Check out some of our recent launches on Nitro , Shop , Server Boosting , User Identity , and more . To learn more about Discord Engineering, take a look at our engineering blog ! What you'll be doing: - Accelerate growth of existing revenue streams while laying the foundation for new monetization opportunities across surfaces like Nitro, Shop, Boosting, and User Identity. - Own complex initiatives end to end by partnering with Product to refine requirements, create technical specs, and work closely with Design to execute and deliver best-in-class user experiences. - Collaborate with Staff Engineers and partners across the organization to drive technical alignment across systems, products, and long-term vision. - Advise leadership on critical technical considerations tied to engineering excellence and high-impact initiatives, and partner on strategic planning to improve how we build and operate. - Lead a full-stack engineering work across Web, Android, and iOS, setting the technical bar for your team and helping them achieve it. - Rapidly prototype new features and synthesize insights through experimentation, thriving in ambiguous problem spaces where the right path isn't always obvious. What you should have: - 8+ years of software engineering experience. You have a track record of leading large initiatives from inception to launch that have had meaningful impact beyond your immediate team. - Full-stack proficiency. You are an expert in React/React Native with a solid grasp of Python backend development. We work primarily in the web (React, TypeScript), mobile (React Native, with a small amount of Kotlin, Objective-C, and Swift), and backend (Python). - Product sense. You maintain a high degree of empathy for your internal and external users, and seek feedback from them about your work. You have an eye for what changes can bring a product from good to great. - Technical leadership. You help teams move with clarity and purpose, translating ambiguous goals into executable roadmaps and creating the conditions for engineers around you to do their best work. - Ownership mentality. You thrive with autonomy, take initiative to drive projects forward, and are comfortable with ambiguity. - Holistic approach to problem solving. You solve from first principles rather than reaching for the nearest solution. You think about the full system, learn from mistakes, and bring the team along with you. - Performance-focused mindset. You have a solid understanding of React performance and client-server performance optimization, and a commitment to maintaining high-performance standards. - Growth mindset. You view challenges and mistakes as learning opportunities while building upon your successes. You push yourself and those around you to continuously improve. Bonus points: - Growth and monetization experience. You have worked on teams focused on revenue generation, product monetization, or user engagement systems, with a history of attracting new users, driving engagement, sustaining long-term retention, and optimizing monetization outcomes. - Experimentation and data driven decision making. You have a strong track record of driving measurable impact through structured experimentation and letting data guide your conclusions. - Optimization at scale. You have experience identifying and solving bottlenecks in consumer-facing applications with large, active user bases. - Passion for Discord. You use the platform, care about the community, and are motivated by the idea of making Discord better for everyone on it. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248k to $279k + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

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 making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. Discord is where hundreds of millions of people come together around games, communities, and shared interests. Behind the scenes, our Stock Administration team makes sure every equity award — from a new hire's first grant to a multi-year vesting RSU release — is handled accurately, compliantly, and with care. We're looking for an experienced Senior Stock Plan Administrator to join our team supporting the day-to-day administration of Discord's global equity programs, including equity grants, option exercises, RSU releases, and special projects. On any given day, you might be supporting the administration of equity grants, walking an employee through their vesting schedule, or partnering with our auditors to test a SOX control. You will partner with key stakeholders in our Finance, Payroll, Tax, Legal, and HR teams to answer employee inquiries, educate employees on equity programs, improve processes, implement controls, and provide reporting as needed. You will also work directly with external auditors and third-party vendors. This position will report directly to the Senior Manager, Stock Administration. What you'll be doing: - Manage the daily administration of Discord's global equity plans — from participant eligibility and enrollment through award processing, exercises, settlements, tax withholding, mobility reporting, expirations, cancellations, repurchases, and terminations. - Process, validate, and reconcile equity transactions across equity administration platforms, payroll, and the general ledger, ensuring data integrity, accuracy, and timely resolution of discrepancies. - Partner with Legal, HR, Payroll, Tax, and Finance to administer Discord's global equity programs and support ongoing processes that ensure accurate record-keeping, withholding, reporting, and reconciliation across all equity data. - Maintain complete and reliable participant mobility data by tracking work locations and mobility history, and reconciling records across payroll and HRIS systems. - Provide a high level of service to employees, management, and stakeholders on equity plan questions; design and deliver educational sessions and communications about Discord's equity programs. - Manage the quarterly calendar of stock administration activities and prepare year-end tax information for IRC 6039 reporting. - Ensure SOX compliance across all aspects of the equity plan — including documentation, testing, and audit support — and ensure all equity compensation is administered per plan terms and conditions. What you should have: - 5+ years in stock plan administration, with experience at both a private and public company. - Experience with global equity plans and managing an equity administration system. - A passion for equity and helping employees understand their equity compensation. - Detail-oriented with a high degree of accuracy. Bonus points: - Certified Equity Professional (CEP) designation. - Experience with Carta. This position is US-based and can be remote but if you live in the Bay Area, you're welcome to work from our beautiful SF office. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $132,000 to $148,500 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

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 making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. As a Staff Engineer on the Safety Experience team, you'll be a technical leader who autonomously delivers real business impact on large, ambiguous projects. You'll design and build product features and systems that prevent harmful activities at scale while ensuring regulatory compliance. This role requires both deep technical expertise and the ability to be a force multiplier for your team: driving engineering excellence, making solid technical decisions, and remaining a top code contributor. You'll work cross-functionally to shape the technical direction of safety initiatives that protect hundreds of millions of Discord users. This role reports to the Engineering Manager of Safety Experience . What You'll Be Doing - Lead development of high-impact, user-facing safety products that deliver measurable results for Discord's users. - Own complex, multi-milestone projects end-to-end, identifying optimal solutions, navigating ambiguity and making independent technical decisions. - Design, build, and deploy robust production APIs, backend services, and data pipelines that enable safety features to scale efficiently. - Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Policy, Data Science, ML, Legal, and Trust & Safety Operations to create solutions that are both impactful and lovable. - Drive engineering excellence by mentoring others and guiding the team through architectural challenges to ensure long-term scalability. - Respond rapidly to the ever-evolving abuse and compliance landscape with strategic thinking and swift execution. What you should have - 8+ years of relevant industry experience, with demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality, high-impact work on complex projects. - Strong expertise in Python and back-end API frameworks (Flask, Django). - Strong front-end development skills with JavaScript (React, TypeScript) for web and mobile platforms. - Significant experience in the Safety or Anti-Abuse domain with deep understanding of trust and safety challenges at scale. - Proven track record of owning large projects end-to-end with varying degrees of ambiguity, breaking down work into well-prioritized milestones with clear dependencies. - Demonstrated ability to make independent technical decisions that balance short-term needs with long-term sustainability and scalability. - Experience driving engineering excellence: setting quality standards, conducting thorough code reviews, and applying an adversarial mindset to identify security, performance, and scaling issues. - Strong communication skills with ability to provide high-quality technical feedback, drive alignment across stakeholders, and facilitate productive debates that lead to clear decisions. - Experience using metrics and dashboards (e.g., Datadog, Mode, Faros) to make data-driven decisions and monitor system health. - Ability to be a force multiplier for your team by mentoring others, establishing best practices, and helping teammates grow their skills. - Experience utilizing AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor to supercharge dev workflows Bonus Points - Familiarity with databases such as Cassandra, Postgres, or ScyllaDB. - Experience with real-time streaming systems like Kafka or Pub-Sub. - Track record of building and operating native mobile features on iOS and Android. - Experience designing and implementing monitoring strategies and on-call/on-point processes for production systems. - Knowledge of lower-level languages such as Go, Rust, or Elixir. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $310,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

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 making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. Discord is looking for an experienced, proactive, and self-driven Senior Data Scientist to join our Experimentation Platform team. The Experimentation Platform puts data at the heart of the company’s decision-making and growth by enabling rapid and accurate product experimentation. Discord runs hundreds of experiments on any given day, turning experiment results into business decisions. As a Data Scientist on this team, you will ensure that the statistical underpinnings of our experiments are sound, that experimenters are able to design experiments with high rigor, and that Discord makes the best business decisions on the basis of these experiments. We are a small and quickly growing team; you will be presented with significant leadership opportunities as we evolve. Our team directly impacts the strategy and roadmaps that improve Discord for its more than 90M daily active users! If helping make Discord an even better place to hang out with your friends sounds like an exciting challenge - we'd love to chat with you! Check out our blog about how our team informs strategy & innovation at Discord here! What You'll Be Doing - Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to improve the reliability and scalability of experimentation at Discord. - Provide statistical expertise, ensuring that all statistical choices, methodologies, and frameworks are sound and aligned with best practices in causal inference and experimental design. - Lead initiatives to educate and train cross-functional teams on best practices in experimentation design, statistical methodologies, and causal inference, ensuring a deep understanding of the principles that drive sound decision-making under uncertainty. - Develop and deliver engaging workshops, training sessions, and educational materials that demystify complex statistical concepts and promote data-driven decision-making across the company. - Empower our Data Science team (50+ members) to use more rigorous causal inference methods. - In addition to consulting within the wider Data Science team (50+ members), lead and conduct causal inference research of your own on important Discord priorities. What you should have - Proven experience in designing and validating statistical methodologies for experimentation platforms or similar systems, with a focus on ensuring the accuracy and reliability of experimental results. - MSc in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Economics, Political Science, Psychology, etc.) and 2+ years of experience designing, implementing and analyzing experiments or causal inference projects. - Ability to critically evaluate and recommend statistical approaches and methodologies that enhance the integrity of experimentation frameworks. - Strong passion for education and the ability to communicate complex statistical and experimental design concepts clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences. - Demonstrated experience in developing and delivering training programs or educational content related to experimentation, causal inference, or statistical analysis, with a track record of fostering a culture of data literacy within an organization. - Proficient with Python, SQL, R, and other statistical programming languages. Bonus Points - PhD in a quantitative field - Interest in conducting literature reviews, translating and championing best scientific practices to a wide range of functions across the company. - Track record in using causal inference methods that translated into business decisions and outcomes. - Passion for Discord or gaming. - Causal inference related publications. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $220,500 to $245,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

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 making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. Discord's Safety ML team builds the machine learning systems that protect 200M+ users. The team's mission is to make Discord a place where people can build genuine friendships without exposure to harm, at a scale where manual review alone can never keep up. We're looking for a highly technical, hands-on, and mission-driven Engineering Manager to lead our Safety ML team. As the manager responsible for Safety ML, you will own the detection systems that sit between attackers and our users; real-time and batch models for content understanding, account integrity, and platform abuse. What You'll Be Doing - Build and lead an exceptional team of highly-engaged ML engineers by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact. - Drive the technical vision and roadmap for Safety ML by collaborating with your team and partners across Trust & Safety, Product, Policy, Legal, and Data Science. - Own the end-to-end lifecycle of production safety models: defining new capabilities, measuring performance, and monitoring the operational health of systems that make millions of enforcement decisions per day. - Manage processes and leverage your technical expertise to continually raise the bar and ensure your team delivers extraordinary results. - Partner with Trust & Safety on label quality, golden sets, and automating manual investigations. - Work with other Engineering Managers to continuously improve the Engineering organization and uphold our workplace philosophy . What you should have - You have 5+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, Data Scientist, or Applied Scientist. - You have 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager and successfully managed a team of 5+ engineers. - You have hands-on depth in at least one of: abuse/fraud detection, content classification, behavioral modeling, graph-based modeling, or LLM-based classification systems. - You have strong communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally. - You thrive in ambiguous environments and get excited about figuring out solutions to complex problems, and then executing on them. - You are a first principles thinker that can work with others to come up with pragmatic solutions. - You have a proven record of shipping ML systems to production at scale. - You are passionate about coaching and leading other engineers, but can roll up your sleeves and get elbow deep in code when needed. - You keep up with the industry trends and continuously identify new technologies to leverage to solve technical problems The US base salary range for this full-time position is $272,000 to $306,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

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 making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. As a Senior Product Designer on Consumer Revenue , you'll help shape how millions of people discover, experience, and engage with Discord's paid products and offerings. You'll work on experiences that create meaningful value for our users while helping grow Discord's consumer business - from exploring new ways to monetize to improving and evolving existing revenue products. You'll be involved in the full product development process from end to end, from identifying opportunities and shaping product strategy to prototyping, experimentation, and launch. You'll bring a strong balance of product thinking, interaction design, and visual craft, and partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Research, and Marketing to understand user needs, test hypotheses, and turn insights into impactful experiences. We're looking for a designer who is excited by the intersection of consumer behavior, product experience, and business growth - someone who can simplify complex problems, explore new ideas, and design experiences that feel distinctly Discord while driving measurable impact. If you're excited to help define the future of Discord's consumer business and build products used by millions of people around the world, we'd love to hear from you. What You'll Be Doing - Embed within a Consumer Revenue squad and partner with engineering, product, data science, and research to own the experience of our paid products from concept to experiment to launch - and keep improving them after release. - Connect consumer and business goals through design decisions you can clearly articulate, from squad discussions to leadership reviews. - Effectively communicate the business and user-centered rationale behind design choices in forums such as design reviews, project-team meetings, and leadership discussions. - Use experimentation, funnel data, and research insights to refine your designs and inform ship/no-ship decisions. - Deliver high-quality work across desktop and mobile, with comprehensive documentation and interactive prototypes, while contributing back to our Design System. - Help foster a culture of design excellence through critique, knowledge sharing, and mentorship. What you should have - 5+ years designing and shipping consumer products across desktop and mobile, including experience as the design lead for multiple squads or end-to-end initiatives. - Strong product thinking - you care more about the "why" than the "how," and can turn complex business requirements into simple, intuitive experiences. - Comfort digging into experiment data and user feedback to shape iterations and make ship decisions. - Mastery of visual and interaction design, with an eye for the details that build delight and trust - especially critical in revenue experiences. - Expert-level Figma and prototyping skills; experience working within and contributing to a design system. - A working understanding and curiosity of AI-assisted design workflows - from ideation and prototyping to generative UI - and the design judgment to know when AI output needs a human hand before it ships. Bonus Points - Experience building monetization products The US base salary range for this full-time position is $188,000 to $211,500 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

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 making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. At Discord, we believe everyone can find a place where they belong. Our 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. Discord is a rapidly scaling company that puts Data at the heart of its decision-making and future growth. The Experimentation team at Discord is responsible for building the tools, systems, and processes that empower Discord employees to continually test hypotheses and improve our product in a data-informed way. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead the development of Discord's next-generation experimentation platform, including building state-of-the-art AI assisted experimentation workflows. You will lead and mentor engineers, fostering their growth and enhancing their skills. What you'll be doing - Design, build, and support Discord's next generation experimentation platform: scope of work would include core services, data pipelines, configuration tooling, statistical analysis tools and UX. - Collaborate with external (sometimes non-technical) stakeholders and customers throughout the company - Understand and influence product telemetry practices to support experimentation needs. - Use your technical expertise to build delightful user experience and high-scale data systems that power internal teams and product features used by many millions of users every day - Deliver business results by collaborating with stakeholders across Discord to experiment on features, machine learning models and more. What you should have - You have 7+ years of experience as a full-stack SWE - You have built internal tools, and are familiar with A/B testing and statistical frameworks. - You have experience with experimentation tooling; experience building core parts of experimentation platforms from scratch is a huge plus. - You have extensive experience leading complex technical projects with successful outcomes; you can take a high-level goal and achieve a shippable solution - You have built systems with strong data governance controls that respect privacy and security principles. - You are proficient in Python and SQL. Experience with Typescript or Rust is a plus. - Experience and with and/or exposure to a variety of datastores (relational, NoSQL, data warehouse solutions) - Strong product sense and communication skills - you understand your customers and work well cross-functionally. - A track record of developing engineers at multiple levels, and a habit of tracking industry trends to bring new techniques to technical problems. Bonus Points - Experience building human-in-the-loop AI systems and AI product evaluation. - Experience with cloud-computing platforms such as Google Cloud Platform or AWS. - Experience with modern data processing stacks. - Full-stack development or product engineering experience. - Deep understanding of statistics, data science, or large scale data processing. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $279,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

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 making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. Discord's Experimentation Platform puts data at the heart of the company's decision-making and growth - we run hundreds of experiments at any given time, and those results turn directly into business decisions across Discord. As a Staff Data Scientist on this team, you will ensure that the statistical underpinnings of our experiments are sound, that experimenters are able to design experiments with high rigor, and that Discord makes the best business decisions on the basis of these experiments. We are a small and quickly growing team; you will be presented with significant leadership opportunities as we evolve. Our team directly impacts the strategy and roadmaps that improve Discord for its more than 90M daily active users! If helping make Discord an even better place to hang out with your friends sounds like an exciting challenge - we'd love to chat with you! What you will be doing - Formulate the vision and set the roadmap for the future of the Experimentation Platform, in partnership with engineering, product, and data science stakeholders. - Provide statistical expertise, ensuring that experimentation methodologies and frameworks are sound and aligned with best practices in causal inference and experimental design. - Partner closely with engineering and product to improve the reliability, scalability, and adoption of experimentation across Discord - including modern AI/LLM tooling where it can accelerate rigor and speed. - Lead initiatives to educate and train cross-functional teams - including workshops, training sessions, and educational materials - on experimentation design, statistical methodology, and causal inference. - Empower Discord's Data Science team (50+ members) to adopt more rigorous causal inference methods. - Lead and conduct original causal inference research on high-priority Discord questions, in partnership with the wider Data Science team. - Engage directly with experimentation customers - data scientists, product managers, and engineers - to ensure the platform enables fast, reliable, data-driven decisions. What you should have - Proven experience leading experimentation platform work, including designing and validating statistical methodologies to ensure the accuracy and reliability of experimental results. - PhD in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Economics, Political Science, Psychology) or equivalent practical experience, plus 4+ years designing, implementing, and analyzing experiments or causal inference projects. - Ability to critically evaluate and recommend statistical approaches that balance velocity and reliability across a variety of product launches. - Strong passion for education, with a track record of communicating complex statistical and experimental design concepts to technical and non-technical audiences and fostering a culture of data literacy. - Demonstrated experience in developing and delivering training programs or educational content related to experimentation, causal inference, or statistical analysis, with a track record of fostering a culture of data literacy within an organization. - Proficient with Python, SQL, R, and/or other statistical programming languages. Bonus Points - Interest in conducting literature reviews, translating and championing best scientific practices across the company. - Track record using causal inference methods that translated into business decisions and outcomes. - Experience autonomously leading cross-functional projects and influencing cross-functional partners. - Comfort using AI/LLM tools to accelerate causal inference workflows, automate repetitive analysis, or scale experimentation education content. - Passion for Discord or gaming. - Causal inference-related publications. San Francisco Bay Area: Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $279,000 to $310,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord? Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.