Staff Product Manager, Growth & SEO

About Discord

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, with a primary focus on video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours monthly. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming by making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.

The Growth Team

The Growth team at Discord is responsible for creating exceptional experiences that retain new and resurrected users. We build features that bring delight both within Discord and beyond via web, email, and notifications, connecting people to conversations and friendships that matter to them.

The Opportunity: Staff Product Manager, Growth & SEO

We are looking for a Staff Product Manager, Growth & SEO, reporting to our Growth Product Lead, to join us and lead our off-platform presence. You will be responsible for creating a vision, building systems and features, and ideating creative solutions to help connect people to the right communities and conversations through effective web experiences, with the ultimate goal of driving user engagement and growth.

What You'll Be Doing

• Guide the product philosophy, vision, and roadmap for Discord’s search engine optimization (SEO), connecting people to valuable content and conversations on Discord.
• Lead cross-functional execution with a team of Engineers, Designers, ML engineers, Data Scientists, partnerships, legal, and policy to build delightful product experiences that scale to hundreds of millions of users.
• Drive improvements to our experimentation and web infrastructure to ensure high-quality, relevant, and timely web experiences with measurable impact.
• Partner with other product teams across Discord, such as Developer Platform, ML, and more to enable relevant experiences for people that play games.
• Independently make decisions for your product area, gain buy-in from leadership, and act as a momentum catalyst for your execution team.
• Clearly communicate roadmaps, priorities, experiments and decisions across a wide spectrum of audiences from partner teams to executive levels.
• Define and own performance against key engagement metrics.

What You Should Have

• Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, excited about finding solutions to complex problems, and then executing on them.
• 7+ years of experience building and shipping great software, including responsibilities driving prioritization, trade-offs, and timelines.
• Proven track record of impact through solving challenging user experience problems at scale.
• Strong analytical ability to quickly organize and leverage data (including writing SQL) to make informed product decisions with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Demonstrated technical proficiency and effectiveness working closely with engineers on both platform infrastructure and user-facing features.
• Strong product sense and pride in understanding your customers' needs around web experiences and engagement.
• Experience working on SEO, GEO, or other top-of-funnel growth focused features.
• Experience with A/B testing and experimentation frameworks.

Bonus Points

• Experience working on communication, social, or community platforms.
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant technical experience.
• Experience working on international/localization problems.
• Passion for Discord and gaming.

Key skills/competency

• Product Management
• Growth Strategy
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• User Engagement
• Web Experience Optimization
• A/B Testing
• SQL Data Analysis
• Cross-functional Leadership
• Technical Product Management
• Experimentation Frameworks