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# Social Media Manager at Descript

- **Company:** Descript
- **Location:** San Francisco CA OR, United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/descript/jobs/7803294003?gh_jid=7803294003

## Job description

## About The Role

Social media is one of the most visible expressions of who Descript is, and right now, we have an opportunity to do it much better. We're hiring a Social Media Manager who understands the new media landscape, knows how to build systems (not just post content), and is excited to make Descript's presence something people really want to follow.

This role goes beyond owned channels. You'll own Descript's employee advocacy program—surveying employees, building training, and enabling them to show up authentically online. You'll support executive thought leadership, working directly with our “first team” executives. And you'll work cross-functionally to make sure launches, campaigns, and content from across the company reach the right social audiences.

## What You'll Do

Social Strategy & Execution

- Own Descript's social presence across channels (LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and others as relevant)
- Develop channel-specific strategy that plays to each platform's strengths and audience
- Build a content calendar, publishing cadence, and engagement framework

Content Repurposing & Atomization

- Build a system to transform one piece of content into multiple platform-native formats
- Partner with Content, PMM, and Brand to ensure social content is aligned and on-message
- Produce or direct the production of short-form social content

Community & Engagement

- Monitor conversations, trends, and brand mentions to engage in the right places, in the right way
- Build a social listening system that surfaces opportunities for brand participation
- Develop and maintain a response framework and community management guidelines

Employee Advocacy

- Build a program that makes it easy for employees to amplify company content and create their own—with Descript as the tool, turning posts into living product demos
- Design the incentive structure and enablement resources (templates, training, Claude-powered tooling) that drive consistent participation

Executive Social Brand Building

- Own execution of Descript's executive social program—managing cadence, content production, and platform presence in partnership with the VP of Marketing and PMM on topics and positioning

## What You Bring

## Minimum Qualifications

- 3–5 years of social media management experience, ideally in B2B or B2B/B2C hybrid environments
- Deep familiarity with the current social media and new media landscape
- Proven ability to build social systems and programs, not just manage a content calendar
- Strong writer; can produce platform-native content across tones and formats
- Data-informed approach to optimization and growth

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience building or running an employee advocacy program
- Experience supporting exec communications or thought leadership
- Background in content repurposing or multimedia content production
- Familiarity with Descript or similar creative and video tools

Success In This Role

Within your first 12 months, you will:

- Deliver a documented social strategy with channel prioritization and measurement framework
- Launch Descript's employee advocacy program, including training curriculum and enabling tooling
- Establish executive thought leadership support for at least 3 Descript leaders
- Show measurable audience growth and engagement improvement across owned channels

The base salary range for this role is $110k - 140k/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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