Product Designer Job at Descript in San Francisco

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As a Product Designer, you'll help leverage emerging technology to reimagine the experience of editing video. You'll own the end-to-end design of new features and evolution of existing ones in the generative / agentic space.

You've got a passion for creating novel experiences and experience collaborating closely with user research, product management, engineering, and other designers to achieve the right mix of novelty and usefulness.

Our product is an intricate web of interconnected features, which means designers at Descript need strong systems design thinking. You'll need to know how to find the right fit for new features in an existing product and have a strong intuition for when to push at system boundaries.

Join us to help build the future of creative tools.

Responsibilities

Play a key role in a feature team, driving design decisions and collaborating with stakeholders and fellow designers to shape innovative video editing experiences

Set a high bar for craft, eye for detail, and deep empathy for users

Own the design process from concept through to execution

Bring clarity to problems that are broad and ambiguous in scope, integrating user, business, and technical constraints through structured thinking and effective communication

Contribute to the definition and expansion of our design system

Collaborate deeply with diverse stakeholders (product management, engineers, designers, executives)

Advocate for what you think is right, know when to disagree and commit

Requirements

4+ years as a designer, the majority of it spent in product

You have a portfolio demonstrating your ability to create net new features from scratch as well as your systems thinking

Exceptional interaction and visual design skills—the ability to create delight without sacrificing usability

Understanding of AI / ML and some experience designing for it

Experience designing web, mobile or desktop applications with workflows and systems design challenges

Experience on a fast-growing team and ability to work through ambiguity and create clarity

Clear, direct communication

Self-direction, you own your own work and deliver on your commitments

Contribute actively in team crit—know how to give and receive feedback well

At least 2 of the following stand-out skills

Stand-out skills

Past work building and / or working on a creation tool (e.g., word processor, design tool, audio or video editing tool)

Experience building or working on a mature design system

Expertise in accessibility

Comfort with designer-led user research

An interest in Vibe coding (or, hey, code coding) for prototyping

Finding new tools and processes (including AI) to improve the design process

UI animation skills

The base salary range for this role is $190,000-$230,000 / year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, 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.

Seniority level Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type Employment type Full-time

Job function Job function Design, Art / Creative, and Information Technology

Industries Software Development

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