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# Lead Editor Product Manager at Descript

- **Company:** Descript
- **Location:** San Francisco CA OR, United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/descript/jobs/7868139003?gh_jid=7868139003

## Job description

## About the role

Descript's script-based editing features are at the heart of why creators trust us for their highest-stakes content. Product launches. Client interviews. Marketing campaigns. Content that represents them to their audiences.

As Lead Product Manager of the Narrative Editing team, you'll own how users capture, edit, and perfect their stories. You'll shape the script-first editing that makes video as simple as a document, the recording and writing tools that let users create without leaving Descript, and the AI regeneration features that make edits feel seamless and natural.

This is an opportunity to shape features that professional creators depend on while working with cutting-edge AI, a product users love, and a small, collaborative team where your impact is immediate and visible.

## What you’ll do

- Develop a deep understanding of our customers, their creative goals, and the evolving AI video landscape — and use those insights to guide the editor roadmap
- Bring Descript's taste for great video into interactions and defaults, so creators naturally produce polished, professional work
- Continuously expand our editing capabilities with frontier AI technology by partnering with our AI Research team, launching features like video regeneration and automatic speaker identification
- Own the recording, script generation, and translation flows that help users achieve their end-to-end video workflows directly in Descript
- Ensure Descript scales reliably for larger teams and more complex workflows

## Who you are

- You’ve built deceptively powerful tools: You have 5 or more years of product management experience shipping creative tools or workflow products that feel simple enough for everyone, but scale to handle sophisticated use cases. You are a systems-minded product thinker who excels at designing intuitive experiences for complex, end-to-end workflows.
- You start with the customer: Plenty of “AI products” start with the technology and they all suck. You care deeply about understanding customers, and have experience in doing customer discovery and defining features that solve real problems.
- You are a fog sculptor: There are aspects to our editor and its design that do not have real competitors yet. The product intuition and design conventions have not been decided. You are attracted to ambiguous problems, know how to ask smart questions, and translate ideas into action.
- You care about craft: Our product is not a hype machine that runs on empty promises and vaporware. We think our product will be successful because people love to use it. That means you sweat the details. But without the sweat, because you aren’t stressed out.
- You are funny, creative, maybe kind of weird: Ok, this isn’t a hard requirement but Descript is kind of a quirky place and the people who love it tend to like that about working here. So, just want to drop a hint early on. Also, the sense of humor is important because even though we take our work seriously it’s still just, like, video creation and editing. We aren’t flying rockets into space so let’s all have a good time.

The base salary range for this role is $225,000 - $290,000. 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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