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Senior Engineering Manager, Nitro

Discord · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

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About Discord

Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out. Backed by Index.

About the role

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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • You have 5+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager
  • You have strong communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally
  • You are motivated to help your team members succeed and have experience developing engineers of multiple levels
  • You approach problems from first principles
  • You are comfortable with ambiguity and get excited about working collaboratively to figure out solutions to complex problems, and then executing on them
  • You have a strong product sense and take pride in understanding your customers
More about this role

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.

We're looking for a technical, hands-on, and mission-focused Senior Engineering Manager to join our Consumer Revenue team. You’ll be responsible for building and scaling our Nitro product and organization. You will lead a team of engineers working across platforms to build revenue driving products and services at Discord.

  • Build highly-engaged teams by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact in your engineers.
  • Work cross-functionally with our Finance, Customer Experience, Product, Design and Marketing teams to define your team’s vision and roadmap by thoroughly understanding the customer and business needs.
  • Use your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar and ensure your team delivers extraordinary results at the high technical level we set .
  • Develop insights into issues slowing...

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