2 months ago
Base Salary
$220k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own product features end to end from problem definition and design through implementation, launch, measurement, and maintenance.
- Build responsive and reliable full-stack experiences across editor, growth and monetization, media, or AI product areas.
- Partner with Product and Design to shape interactions, simplify technical complexity, define constraints, and select meaningful metrics.
- Form hypotheses, instrument features, release incrementally, and use analytics and experiments to evaluate outcomes.
- Improve tooling, standards, tests, observability, and release practices while providing architectural direction, reviews, mentoring, and clear written communication.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and shipping customer-facing products, including end-to-end features that measurably improved user or business outcomes.
- Experience owning features or experiments from planning through launch and using analytics and metrics to evaluate impact.
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous and unfamiliar technical systems, critically leverage AI agents, and create clarity around complex product and technical problems.
- Strong product judgment and attention to user experience, with rigorous validation using reproductions, logs, tests, and other evidence.
- Helpful experience includes working on editors, media products, creative tools, payment systems such as Stripe, AI agents or media-generation models, experimentation and product analytics, or video technologies such as shaders, graphics rendering, audio/visual effects, and media formats.
Benefits
- Base salary of $220,000-$265,000 plus equity and benefits.
- Generous healthcare package, 401(k) matching program, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time.
- Mix of remote and hybrid roles; remote employees have occasional opportunities for in-person collaboration, and hybrid employees are not required to be in the office every day.
- Headquarters are in San Francisco’s Mission District.
Tech Stack
Categories
Full StackProduct Engineering
About Descript
Descript builds an AI-powered video and audio editor used by creators, marketers, and teams to record, transcribe, edit by text, and publish content. It sells subscription plans from individual to enterprise, with tools for screen recording, podcast production, and collaborative review. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company is backed by investors including the OpenAI Startup Fund and Andreessen Horowitz.