Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.
Building on Discord's gaming-centric platform, Quests offer an engaging way for advertisers to connect to our community with rewarded advertising. As we grow our advertising platform, our Ads Interfaces team is at the forefront of creating intuitive self-serve advertising experiences that empower businesses of all sizes to reach Discord's diverse user base. The most successful businesses on our platform will leverage our self-serve tools to create, manage, and optimize their campaigns with ease.
As the Ad Interfaces PM you will be responsible for ensuring these interfaces deliver value for businesses across all verticals, while maintaining the quality experience Discord users expect. You will define a compelling vision and drive roadmap execution around how we make our advertising interfaces accessible, valuable, and understandable to businesses of all sizes. This will include things like business onboarding, self-serve campaign creation, asset management, reporting, experimentation setup and more.
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.
What You'll Be Doing
- Guide the product philosophy, vision, and roadmap for our self-serve ad products so we make our advertising partners successful on Discord
- Lead cross-functional execution with engineering, data science, design, marketing, partnerships, legal, policy to build, test, and launch revenue products that are beneficial for our advertisers & users
- Clearly communicate roadmaps, priorities, experiments and decisions across a wide spectrum of audiences from partner teams to executive levels
- Together with other product teams, evolve our suite of tools for businesses across game studios, developers, and advertisers
- Empathize and relate to our users, especially those who are the most active on Discord
What you should have
- Strong product sense for the advertising interfaces space with deep understanding of how advertisers use self-serve platform offerings
- Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, excited about finding simple solutions to complex problems, and then executing on them
- 7+ years experience shipping great software, driving prioritization, making trade-off decisions, and setting timelines
- Demonstrated technical proficiency and effectiveness working closely with engineers
- Track record of driving impact via rapid experimentation towards a metric goal for an advertising tech product
- Strong analytical ability to quickly organize and leverage data (including writing SQL) to make informed product decisions with cross-functional stakeholders
Bonus Points
- Experience working with self-serve advertising platforms from other companies
- Experience working with rewarded ads formats and the gaming advertising vertical
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant technical experience
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. 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!
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