Graphic Designer & Illustrator

The role

This role sits inside Discord's Creative Studio, embedded alongside the Social team. The designer turns campaign ideas and copy into visuals across platforms, working on a rolling basis to keep pace with live community conversations.

What you would do

• Create social and community visuals ranging from platform graphics to reactive, in-the-moment artwork, spanning characters, effects, objects, and scenes
• Develop same-day or next-day creative that taps into cultural moments and community discussions
• Translate concepts and copy from the Social team into polished graphic and illustrated work
• Work with illustrators, motion designers, and brand designers to keep a unified, expressive look across channels
• Juggle several simultaneous requests, setting priorities and flagging schedule changes early
• Exchange critique and feedback in reviews, refining work toward the best result under tight deadlines

What they asked for

• Portfolio showing expressive, polished illustration and design across varied styles, ideally including quick-turn or social-focused pieces
• Two or more years of design or production work in an in-house team, content studio, or agency, preferably in tech, gaming, or entertainment
• Working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, with a sharp sense of layout, color, type, and hierarchy
• Able to maintain craft quality while working quickly, delivering finished creative within hours or a single day
• Experience adhering to an existing brand system so output feels consistent with it
• Able to present concepts and explain design choices to non-design stakeholders, and to revise and deliver assets meeting creative and technical specs

Nice to have

• Motion or animation skills, including translating static art into movement
• Figma proficiency
• Strong grasp of meme and gaming culture and how a brand can participate credibly in online discussions