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Descript
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Engineering Manager, Agent
San Francisco, CA | Remote
remote $222K-$262KEngineering Manager, Agent San Francisco, CA | Remote About the Role Descript is revolutionizing how traditional editing methodologies and AI technologies come together in every part of the creation process (recording, transcribing, editing, and sharing) to make it faster and easier than ever to create high quality content. We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Agent team, focused on building the world's best Agentic Video Editor, Underlord. This is a rapidly changing landscape, and there are many unique technical challenges that come with building high quality, cost-effective Agents for handling the multimodal nature of video. You will manage a team of 5-6 software engineers, report to the Head of AI Engineering, and partner closely with others across engineering, product, design, and AI research teams. Agent-driven editing is a major company focus and this role requires strong product thinking and strategic partnership skills as the team continues to develop novel, high-quality experiences around Agentic Video Editing. About the team: Descript's Agent launched in Open Beta in July 2025. Since then, we've been working on improving the user experience for chat-based editing, adding more capabilities into our agent, and improving our agent infrastructure to continue to scale as models get better and better. The Agent product engineering team partners very closely with our AI Research team, in order to achieve our mission to make video editing accessible to anyone. Your management peers and direct reports will be based in San Francisco, New York, and distributed across the US and Canada.
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Director, Sales
Remote | San Francisco, CA
remote $150K-$200KDirector, Sales Remote | San Francisco, CA About the role Descript is redefining how teams create, collaborate, and communicate with video and audio. As we scale and accelerate adoption across the enterprise, we are seeking an exceptional Sales Director for the US to lead this next chapter of growth. This is a rare opportunity to build, mentor, and inspire a high-performing team of Account Executives as they partner with some of the world's most innovative companies-helping them transform how they produce content with AI-powered workflows. As a senior sales leader at Descript, you will be a key architect of our go-to-market expansion. You will set a high bar for excellence in hiring, coaching, and developing top sales talent. You'll cultivate a culture centered on strong fundamentals, disciplined execution, and an unwavering commitment to customer success. Your leadership will shape how enterprise organizations adopt AI-driven video creation at scale-and you'll play a pivotal role in building one of the most elite GTM organizations in SaaS. If you're driven to build category-defining teams, thrive in fast growth environments, and want to leave a lasting mark on the future of AI-powered content creation, we'd love to meet you. What you'll do Team Leadership & Growth - Build, lead, and coach a US-based team of Enterprise Account Executives focused on landing and expanding high-value customers. - Set clear expectations, operating rhythms, and performance standards to consistently deliver and exceed ARR targets. - Cultivate a high-trust, high-accountability environment where top performers can do the best
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Engineering Manager, Narrative Editing
San Francisco, CA or Remote
remote $222K-$262KEngineering Manager, Narrative Editing San Francisco, CA or Remote About the Role Descript is revolutionizing how traditional editing methodologies and AI technologies come together in every part of the creation process (recording, transcribing, editing, and sharing) to make it faster and easier than ever to create high quality content. We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Narrative Editing team, focused on the product experiences that enable creators to tell their story through both live and generative AI content creation and Descript's flagship script-based editing experience. You will manage a team of 5-6 software engineers, report to the Head of Product Engineering, and partner closely with leaders across engineering, product, design, AI Engineering to deliver high quality and reliable product experiences for video creators. About the team: The Narrative Editing team owns the collection of product experiences that enable creators to tell their story. The team owns Descript's flagship script-based editing experience, which changed the landscape of video editing tools by making storytelling-based content creation accessible to beginner creators, and lightning-fast for experts. While AI-based video editing has provided optionality to creators across all parts of the Descript product, this team has the unique opportunity to partner closely with AI infrastructure and research teams to evaluate, integrate, and operate both internal and external models that make it even easier and faster for creators to produce high caliber content. The Narrative Editing team's focus in 2026 is to take great product experiences and make them even better for our customers.
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Product Manager, API & Platform
San Francisco, CA or Remote, US
remote $171K-$235KProduct Manager, API & Platform San Francisco, CA or Remote, US About the role Automated video editing is an emerging category, and we're positioned to define it. Media companies want to turn thousands of podcast episodes into social clips. Marketing teams want to automatically create product demos for every release. Agencies want to process client content in bulk with consistent branding. And they want to do all of that at scale. As the Product Manager for this 0 to 1 area, you'll build and own the platform that makes this all possible. You'll create APIs that let developers programmatically import media, run AI-powered edits, and export content. In essence, turning Descript's already powerful editing capabilities into infrastructure that media businesses can depend on. What you'll do - Own the API and developer experience that lets teams create content workflows at scale - Launch integrations that unlock new use cases: MCP wrappers, no-code workflow platforms, and strategic partner integrations - Work closely with our Agentic AI team to influence what editing capabilities we build and how they're exposed through the API - Define and grow this business line by shaping positioning, pricing, and go-to-market strategy with Sales and Marketing teams Who you are - You've shipped technical products before: You have 5 or more years of product management experience shipping internal APIs, developer platforms, and foundational systems that enable other teams - You build things from scratch: Building a brand new product means venturing into the unknown, and you find that
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Strategic Finance, GTM
San Francisco, CA or Remote, US
remote $170K-$240KStrategic Finance, GTM San Francisco, CA or Remote, US About the role Finance at Descript isn't a back office function. It's a strategic partner in shaping where and how we grow. This role exists to turn insight into leverage, helping the company make smarter bets, allocate capital effectively, and improve the efficiency of our go to market engine. You will report to the VP of Finance and operate as a senior individual contributor with high ownership. Your scope covers the full growth funnel, from top of funnel through conversion, retention, and ARR. You will own GTM and growth models, partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Growth, and Data teams, act as a thought partner to GTM leadership on goal setting, performance tracking, and identifying growth opportunities across self serve, product led, and sales led motions. We are looking for someone who sees GTM finance as both analytical and strategic. Someone who enjoys building models and metrics, but also shaping the narrative around growth. You are comfortable working directly in SQL, navigating imperfect data, and translating complexity into clear recommendations that influence how Descript grows. What you will do - Own Descript's top of funnel and growth models, from signups to paid conversion to ARR and retention. - Own sales-led revenue forecasting, including pipeline modeling, win rates, sales capacity, and quota-driven ARR. - Build and maintain GTM financial models including ARR builds, channel performance, cohort analysis, and scenario modeling. - Partner deeply with the data team to define metrics, improve data framework,
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Product Manager, AI Research
San Francisco, CA
unspecified $171K-$235KProduct Manager, AI Research San Francisco, CA 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 or generate (or both!) 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. We're looking for a Product Manager to help build the future of video editing with AI. You'll work alongside a small, flat, highly collaborative team of experienced PMs, AI researchers, engineers, designers, 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. We're looking for a Product Manager to lead the AI Research and Enablement roadmap at Descript. This role sits at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research, production ML infrastructure, and product strategy. You'll be responsible for ensuring our AI capabilities are best-in-class while enabling our product teams to ship AI-powered features that delight users. Teams You'll Partner with AI Research The AI Research team leverages, trains, and validates powerful models for our product use cases across two core areas: - Audio/Video Research : Models for understanding, augmenting, and generating audio/video content (transcription, lipsync, video regenerate, TTS,