Engineering Manager, Narrative Editing

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Salary

$222K-$262K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

108% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Work mode

Remote From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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0 days From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Engineering 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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