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Director, Product Management roles in the United States can be pursued through the J-1 visa under the Trainee or Specialist program category, depending on your experience level and program structure. Securing sponsorship requires a designated State Department organization to issue your DS-2019, with your host employer serving a separate role in the process.
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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. Discord's IT function is at an inflection point. We have a strong support team, and now we need a leader who can build an engineering discipline on top of it. This role reports to the Head of Security & IT and owns the full IT surface: identity and access, endpoint and device trust, SaaS governance, workplace infrastructure, and internal tooling. Your mandate is to transform how IT operates — a fundamental shift from reactive support into a team that writes code, ships automation, and builds the platforms that a top-tier engineering company deserves. This is a building role, not a maintenance role. You'll inherit a functioning support operation and a set of tools that work, but the engineering layer doesn't exist yet. You're here to create it, build the muscle to automate, integrate, and ship to help Discord scale. You should be just as comfortable architecting an identity platform as you are debugging a network issue or writing a Terraform module. You also own the IT side of the security boundary: identity and access management, endpoint protection, device trust, and the compliance controls that live within IT. Dedicated Security Engineering owns the deeper security stack. You partner closely with them on Zero Trust architecture and incident response, and you manage that boundary with maturity and clarity.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
What You'll Be Doing
- Build engineering capability where there is none today, stand up infrastructure-as-code practices, and shift the team's center of gravity from ticket resolution to platform engineering and automation
- Own identity and access management end-to-end. Progress our Zero Trust strategy across identity, device trust, and network layers, and drive the technical roadmap for how Discord employees authenticate, authorize, and access resources
- Drive SaaS governance as a technical discipline: license management, shadow IT discovery, cost optimization, and vendor consolidation
- Modernize service delivery. Integrate AI into workflows, build self-service capabilities, and manage to meaningful SLAs that continuously improve resolution time and employee satisfaction across a globally distributed, hybrid workforce
- Own workplace infrastructure: office networking, AV systems, and endpoint readiness for our San Francisco headquarters, future offices, and hybrid workforce
- Manage the IT budget like a product org. Prioritize ruthlessly, make disciplined build-vs-buy decisions, reduce vendor redundancy, and quantify the value your team delivers
- Administer and continuously improve core IT-managed systems (e.g., Okta, Google Workspace, Jamf, Intune, Crowdstrike, 1Password/Kolide, Asana, Zendesk).
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of progressive IT experience with a strong background in endpoint management, SaaS/identity platform administration, and systems engineering.
- 7+ years of experience building and managing multiple teams.
- You've built or transformed an IT organization at a technology company. You took a support-oriented function and turned it into a team that ships code, builds platforms, and operates with engineering discipline.
- You're a technical leader who still builds. You've personally written automation, designed identity architectures, or built internal tooling. You think in infrastructure-as-code, not click-ops, and you're credible with the engineers on your team and across the company.
- You've owned the IT side of the security boundary: endpoint management, identity, device trust, and compliance controls. You know where IT ends and dedicated security engineering begins, and you've navigated that line collaboratively.
- You've managed modern IT platforms at scale. Identity, endpoint management, EDR, productivity suites, and ticketing systems, operated as integrated systems through automation rather than standalone tools managed through consoles.
- You manage multimillion-dollar budgets and make strategic trade-offs. Vendor consolidation, cost optimization, and the judgment to know when to build versus when to buy.
- You've personally stood up capabilities from scratch, whether internal tooling, automation pipelines, or new team functions, and you thrive in the ambiguity of "we don't have this yet."
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience at a company with a similar profile to Discord: consumer tech, high-growth, highly technical employee base, strong product culture.
- Background in leading IT through significant company milestones like enterprise readiness, M&A integration, or international expansion.
- Track record of building internal tooling where commercial solutions weren't justified. You shipped code, not just purchased software.
COMPENSATION
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $400,000 to $450,000 + 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!
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.
INTRODUCTION
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. Discord's IT function is at an inflection point. We have a strong support team, and now we need a leader who can build an engineering discipline on top of it. This role reports to the Head of Security & IT and owns the full IT surface: identity and access, endpoint and device trust, SaaS governance, workplace infrastructure, and internal tooling. Your mandate is to transform how IT operates — a fundamental shift from reactive support into a team that writes code, ships automation, and builds the platforms that a top-tier engineering company deserves. This is a building role, not a maintenance role. You'll inherit a functioning support operation and a set of tools that work, but the engineering layer doesn't exist yet. You're here to create it, build the muscle to automate, integrate, and ship to help Discord scale. You should be just as comfortable architecting an identity platform as you are debugging a network issue or writing a Terraform module. You also own the IT side of the security boundary: identity and access management, endpoint protection, device trust, and the compliance controls that live within IT. Dedicated Security Engineering owns the deeper security stack. You partner closely with them on Zero Trust architecture and incident response, and you manage that boundary with maturity and clarity.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
What You'll Be Doing
- Build engineering capability where there is none today, stand up infrastructure-as-code practices, and shift the team's center of gravity from ticket resolution to platform engineering and automation
- Own identity and access management end-to-end. Progress our Zero Trust strategy across identity, device trust, and network layers, and drive the technical roadmap for how Discord employees authenticate, authorize, and access resources
- Drive SaaS governance as a technical discipline: license management, shadow IT discovery, cost optimization, and vendor consolidation
- Modernize service delivery. Integrate AI into workflows, build self-service capabilities, and manage to meaningful SLAs that continuously improve resolution time and employee satisfaction across a globally distributed, hybrid workforce
- Own workplace infrastructure: office networking, AV systems, and endpoint readiness for our San Francisco headquarters, future offices, and hybrid workforce
- Manage the IT budget like a product org. Prioritize ruthlessly, make disciplined build-vs-buy decisions, reduce vendor redundancy, and quantify the value your team delivers
- Administer and continuously improve core IT-managed systems (e.g., Okta, Google Workspace, Jamf, Intune, Crowdstrike, 1Password/Kolide, Asana, Zendesk).
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of progressive IT experience with a strong background in endpoint management, SaaS/identity platform administration, and systems engineering.
- 7+ years of experience building and managing multiple teams.
- You've built or transformed an IT organization at a technology company. You took a support-oriented function and turned it into a team that ships code, builds platforms, and operates with engineering discipline.
- You're a technical leader who still builds. You've personally written automation, designed identity architectures, or built internal tooling. You think in infrastructure-as-code, not click-ops, and you're credible with the engineers on your team and across the company.
- You've owned the IT side of the security boundary: endpoint management, identity, device trust, and compliance controls. You know where IT ends and dedicated security engineering begins, and you've navigated that line collaboratively.
- You've managed modern IT platforms at scale. Identity, endpoint management, EDR, productivity suites, and ticketing systems, operated as integrated systems through automation rather than standalone tools managed through consoles.
- You manage multimillion-dollar budgets and make strategic trade-offs. Vendor consolidation, cost optimization, and the judgment to know when to build versus when to buy.
- You've personally stood up capabilities from scratch, whether internal tooling, automation pipelines, or new team functions, and you thrive in the ambiguity of "we don't have this yet."
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience at a company with a similar profile to Discord: consumer tech, high-growth, highly technical employee base, strong product culture.
- Background in leading IT through significant company milestones like enterprise readiness, M&A integration, or international expansion.
- Track record of building internal tooling where commercial solutions weren't justified. You shipped code, not just purchased software.
COMPENSATION
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $400,000 to $450,000 + 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!
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.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding J-1 Visa Sponsorship in Director, Product Management
Document your product leadership credentials precisely
Your DS-2019 training plan must map your prior product management experience to specific U.S. skills you'll gain. Quantify your background in roadmap ownership, cross-functional team leadership, and P&L accountability before approaching any designated sponsor.
Identify host employers with structured training programs
J-1 Trainee and Specialist hosts must demonstrate a formal training program, not just a job. Target technology companies and SaaS firms with documented rotational or leadership development frameworks, since these satisfy the structured-exchange requirement most cleanly.
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Use Migrate Mate to filter Director, Product Management openings at U.S. employers who understand exchange visitor program requirements. Targeting hosts already familiar with the DS-2019 process reduces friction at the offer and training-plan stage.
Verify whether the 2-year residency rule applies to you
The home-country physical presence requirement affects some J-1 participants based on their nationality and funding source. Confirm your status with your designated sponsor before accepting an offer, since this requirement blocks status changes and green card paths if it applies.
Align your training plan with DOL occupational definitions
Designated sponsors review DS-2019 training plans against recognized occupation standards. Reference the O*NET profile for General and Operations Managers or Product Managers when drafting your plan to ensure the scope matches what the sponsor can lawfully certify.
Negotiate host employer obligations before signing
Your host employer must sign the training plan and cooperate with your designated sponsor throughout the program. Confirm at the offer stage that the employer understands their reporting and supervision obligations so compliance issues don't arise after you've accepted.
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Find Director, Product Management JobsDirector, Product Management J-1 Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Which J-1 program category fits a Director, Product Management role?
Most Director, Product Management candidates qualify under the J-1 Trainee or Specialist category. Trainee applies if you have a degree plus at least one year of relevant experience, or five years of experience without a degree, and the role centers on skills development. Specialist applies if you are an expert in a specialized field and the program focuses on exchange of best practices rather than foundational training.
Who actually sponsors my J-1 visa, and what does my host employer do?
Your J-1 visa sponsor is a U.S. Department of State-designated organization such as Cultural Vistas, CIEE, or AIPT. That organization issues your DS-2019 and monitors program compliance. Your host employer, the company where you work, is not your visa sponsor. They sign the training plan and fund the placement, but the designated sponsor holds the legal sponsorship relationship with the State Department.
How do I find U.S. employers open to hosting a J-1 Director of Product Management?
Migrate Mate lets you search Director, Product Management roles at U.S. employers who are familiar with exchange visitor program structures. Because J-1 hosting requires employer cooperation on the training plan and DS-2019 process, targeting companies already comfortable with that framework saves significant time compared to cold outreach to employers unfamiliar with the J-1.
Can I transition from J-1 status to an H-1B or green card after my program ends?
It depends on whether the 2-year home-country physical presence requirement applies to you. If it does, you cannot change to H-1B or most immigrant visa categories until you fulfill that requirement or obtain a waiver. Your designated sponsor can confirm whether your nationality, field of study, or funding source triggers the requirement before you accept an offer.
What should a DS-2019 training plan include for a senior product management role?
The training plan must specify the skills, knowledge, and competencies you will gain, tied to observable activities at the host employer. For a Director, Product Management role, this typically includes exposure to U.S. go-to-market strategy, enterprise product lifecycle frameworks, and cross-functional leadership in domestic market contexts. The plan must show genuine exchange value, not just describe standard job duties, or the designated sponsor will not certify it.
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