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# Field Marketing Manager at Descript

- **Company:** Descript
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/descript/jobs/7799277003?gh_jid=7799277003

## Job description

## About the Role

Our vision is to build the next generation platform to enable easy and fast creation of audio and video content powered by cutting-edge AI. Building a revolutionary way to record, transcribe, edit, and mix spoken audio and video comes with a series of unique challenges and requires solving hard and complex problems.

As more marketing, communications, sales, support, and creative teams adopt Descript, we're investing in the experiences that help people discover what's possible with our product - and connect with the people behind it.

We're looking for our first Field Marketing Manager to build that program from the ground up.

This is a builder role. You'll define how Descript shows up in the real world, creating experiences that introduce new audiences to Descript, deepen relationships with customers, and generate pipeline for our growing enterprise business. From executive dinners and industry events to customer meetups, partner activations, and hands-on workshops, you'll create programs that people actually want to attend.

You'll work closely with Sales, Product Marketing, Customer Success, and Brand to develop field marketing into a repeatable, measurable growth engine.

If you're energized by building from scratch, love bringing people together, and enjoy balancing strategy with execution, we'd love to meet you.

## What you'll do

- Build Descript's field marketing strategy from the ground up, including planning, processes, measurement, and annual programming.
- Develop and execute integrated field marketing programs that generate pipeline, accelerate opportunities, and strengthen customer relationships.
- Own end-to-end execution of in-person and virtual experiences, including executive dinners, workshops, conferences, customer events, roadshows, webinars, and community gatherings.
- Partner closely with Enterprise Sales to identify priority accounts, align programs to territory plans, and create experiences that help move deals forward.
- Collaborate with Product Marketing, Brand, Demand Generation, Partnerships, and Customer Success to create cohesive campaigns before, during, and after every event.
- Build playbooks for event planning, sales engagement, lead follow-up, reporting, and program operations that can scale as the team grows.
- Manage budgets, vendors, agencies, venues, and logistics while creating thoughtful attendee experiences that reflect the Descript brand.
- Measure and communicate program impact across pipeline, revenue influence, customer engagement, and qualitative feedback to help shape future investments.
- Represent Descript at industry events and build authentic relationships with customers, prospects, creators, and partners.

## What we're looking for

- 3-5 years of experience in B2B marketing, with 2+ years of field marketing or event experience. Also open to 4+ years of events agency experience (especially if you have worked with B2B clients).
- You've built programs, not just executed them. You enjoy creating structure where it doesn't yet exist.
- Experience partnering closely with Sales to drive pipeline and revenue outcomes.
- Strong project management skills with exceptional attention to detail—you can manage dozens of moving pieces without losing sight of the bigger picture.
- You're equally comfortable developing a strategy, negotiating with a venue, reviewing event signage, and presenting results to leadership.
- You use data to make decisions and know how to measure marketing impact beyond registration numbers.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a bias toward action.
- Comfortable wearing multiple hats in a fast-moving startup environment.
- Willingness to travel approximately 25–35%.

Bonus points if you have

- Experience marketing SaaS products to marketing, communications, creative, or enterprise teams.
- Experience building a field marketing function or launching a new program.
- Experience with account-based marketing strategies.
- Experience producing workshops or educational experiences—not just traditional events.
- A genuine appreciation for storytelling, video, podcasts, AI, or the creative process.

What success looks like

After your first year, you've:

- Built the foundation for a scalable field marketing program at Descript.
- Established trusted partnerships with Sales and cross-functional marketing teams.
- Created a repeatable calendar of experiences that customers look forward to attending.
- Developed playbooks that make planning, execution, and follow-up more effective every quarter.
- Demonstrated measurable impact on enterprise pipeline, customer engagement, and brand awareness.
- Helped define what "field marketing" means at Descript—not by copying another company's playbook, but by creating one that fits ours.

The base salary range for this role is $145k - $160k/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, level, 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 and the backing of some of the world's greatest investors ([OpenAI](https://www.descript.com/blog/article/all-new-descript-backed-by-openai-startup-fund), [Andreessen Horowitz](https://www.a16z.com/), [Redpoint Ventures](https://redpoint.com/), [Spark Capital](https://medium.com/spark-capital/welcome-descript-a6caddb91039)).

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, 401k matching program, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. [Our headquarters](https://tours.momentumvirtualtours.com/tours/WtZKwedwv) are located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. We're hiring for a mix of remote roles and hybrid roles.  For those who are remote, we have a handful of opportunities throughout the year for in person collaboration.  For our hybrid roles, we're flexible, and you're an adult—we don't expect or mandate that you're in the office every day. 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.

## About Descript

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Descript provides an AI-powered, all-in-one video and podcast editor that makes editing as easy as typing, serving over 7 million creators and businesses.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Andrew Mason

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Software Development, AI-Powered Video and Audio Editing, Content Creation Tools
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C; creators, podcasters, marketers, educators, and teams of all sizes (from solo creators to enterprise teams)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To make video and audio creation accessible to everyone, freeing creativity from technical limitations.

## Products & Services
- **Descript (Core Platform)**: A web-based and desktop video and audio editor that uses AI to transcribe media, allowing users to edit video by editing the text transcript. Includes features like screen recording, multi-track editing, and automated publishing.
- **Underlord (AI Co-Editor)**: An AI agent that can generate, edit, and design a video based on a user's text description or prompt, acting as a creative partner.
- **AI Avatars**: Allows users to generate AI avatars for video content.
- **AI Translation & Captions**: Provides automated translation and caption generation for videos.
- **SquadCast (Acquired)**: A remote recording platform for high-quality podcast and video interviews, integrated into Descript.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (current valuation is not confirmed in public sources).
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $100M. Annual Revenue is estimated at $7M per some sources (Tracxn), though this may not be publicly confirmed.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: OpenAI Startup Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital. Individual investors include Daniel Gross, Naval Ravikant, Ev Williams, Jack Conte, Casey Neistat, and Tobi Lutke.
- **Growth Signals**: Acquired SquadCast.fm (Aug 2023) and Lyrebird AI (2019). Has 34,393 LinkedIn followers (+48.1% yearly growth). Active job postings are up +21.4% year-over-year. Employs 144 people across 6 countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Text-based editing**: Its core differentiator is making video editing as simple as editing a text document, significantly lowering the barrier for non-editors.
- **AI Co-Editor (Underlord)**: A unique, powerful AI agent that can handle the entire creative process from description to final video, offering a significant productivity advantage.
- **All-in-one platform**: Combines recording, transcription, editing, screen capture, AI avatars, and publishing in one tool, reducing the need for multiple software subscriptions.
- **Strong backing**: Backed by top-tier venture firms and the OpenAI Startup Fund, providing resources and AI expertise.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-First Innovation**: Deepening its AI capabilities, particularly with the Underlord co-editor, to automate more of the creative workflow and make professional-quality video creation accessible to anyone.
- **Platform Expansion**: Growing from a podcast and simple video tool into a comprehensive platform for all types of video content (marketing, training, social media).
- **Enterprise & Team Growth**: Expanding features for team collaboration and targeting business use cases like marketing and sales.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a team of creative and technical people who value making things that "don't exist but probably should." The culture is focused on innovation and accessibility, with a strong emphasis on values as articulated by the CEO.
- **Location Flexibility**: Offers a remote-first culture with employees across the USA and Canada. Employees can work on-site in San Francisco, hybrid, or fully remote. Remote employees are asked to fly in for team off-sites a few times a year.
- **Notable Perks**: Home-office stipend, comprehensive medical/dental/vision (HMO and PPO), competitive retirement plans with employer matching, flexible time off, and paid parental leave. The San Francisco office offers free lunches, snacks, and drinks.
- **Engineering Culture**: The engineering team is a significant part of the company (30% of staff). The tech stack is modern, and the company has a strong track record of hiring from top tech companies (Google, Meta, Dropbox, Adobe).
- **Employer Rating**: 4.6/5.0 on LinkedIn (32 reviews) with high marks for Culture (4.7) and Career (4.0).

## Sources
1. [descript.com](https://www.descript.com/about)
2. [descript.com/careers](https://www.descript.com/careers)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/descript)
4. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/descript/__vF948CDG-Kh3N00CfMczYLzLCnpIqW3JvPsaCVEZfPU)

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