Product Manager, Editor

About the role

Descript’s vision is to put video in every communicator’s toolkit. Back in the day you needed like six monitors and a bachelor’s degree to edit video. Descript lets you do it by editing docs & slides, and increasingly by just asking AI. In the future, maybe you won’t even need to ask! But building a new way to record and edit videos that look & sound good comes with a series of unique design, technology, and business challenges. In other words, we need really good product managers.

As a Product Manager on the Editor team, you’ll be shaping the future of what creative collaboration looks like with AI, from recording to final polish. You’ll work alongside a small, flat, highly collaborative team of experienced PMs, engineers, designers, AI researchers, and marketers. This is an opportunity to get hands-on experience with cutting-edge AI technology in a product users love and grow fast in your PM craft.

What you’ll do

• Develop a deep understanding of our customers, their creative goals, and the evolving video / AI landscape — and use those insights to guide the roadmap.
• Own and shape the recording experience so that anyone can look and sound great without special gear or expertise.
• Bring Descript’s taste for great video into the recording and editing experience, shaping interactions and defaults so creators naturally produce work that feels polished and professional.
• Partner with AI research, engineering, design, and other teams to translate cutting-edge technology into reliable, delightful experiences.
• Own and drive the feature roadmap for your team from idea generation through to execution and analysis. You’ll bring clarity and focus to your team, and help them deliver value to users reliably and effectively.

Who you are

The base salary range for this role is $175,000 - $265,000 / year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, and location, and may vary from the amount above.

About Descript

Descript is building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio — an editing tool built for the age of AI. We are a team of 150 — with a proven CEO and the backing of some of the world's greatest investors ( OpenAI , Andreessen Horowitz ,  Redpoint Ventures , Spark Capital ).

Descript is the special company that's in possession of both product market fit and the raw materials (passionate user community, great product, large market) for growth, but is still early enough that each new employee has a measurable influence on the direction of the company.

Benefits include a generous healthcare package, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. Our headquarters are located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. We're looking to hire people who are local and able to join us at the office when needed. We're flexible, and you're an adult—we don't expect or mandate that you're in the office every day. But we do believe there are valuable and serendipitous moments of discovery and collaboration that come from working together in person.

Descript is an equal opportunity workplace—we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We believe in actively building a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to better allow our employees, products, and community to thrive.