Product Designer, Descript
Growth & Monetization
$150-215k
AI video & podcast editor
Open for applications
AI video & podcast editor
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$150-215k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make it easy for anyone o record, edit, and share any video.
Role
Who you are
- You’re a pro at using data to create and iterate on user experiences that marry user needs and measurable business impact
- 5+ years as a designer, the majority of it spent in product
- A portfolio demonstrating your ability to handle complexity and create compelling, data-informed user experiences that convert
- Data fluency and past success working on growth experiments
- Exceptional interaction and visual design skills
- Experience on a fast-growing team
- Ability to work through ambiguity and create clarity, quickly
- Clear, direct communication
- Self-direction, you own your own work and deliver on your commitments
- Crit skills—know how to give and receive feedback well
- AI literacy—you don’t have to be AI-pilled, but it’s a growing part of how we work here
- At least 2 of the following stand-out skills:
- Finding new tools and processes to improve the design process
Desirable
- Past work building and/or working on a creation tool (e.g., word processor, design tool, audio or video editing tool)
- Experience building or working on a mature design system
- Expertise in accessibility
- Comfort with designer-led user research
- An interest in Vibe coding (or, hey, code coding) for prototyping
- UI animation skills
- Experience designing for AI/ML-powered projects
What the job involves
- As a Product Designer, you’ll help our users understand the value of Descript and find early success using it on our Growth team
- Designers who do well here aren’t afraid of ambiguity and have a knack for navigating it collaboratively. Join us to help build the future of creative tools
- Play a vital role on our growth team, driving design decisions and shaping strategy
- Take an experimental approach to solving problems that matter to our users and business
- Use data to optimize user experiences for impact
- Balance the need for speed with a high bar for craft, eye for detail, and deep empathy for users
- Own your design process from concept through to execution
- Bring clarity to problems that are broad and ambiguous in scope through structured thinking and effective communication
- Collaborate deeply with diverse stakeholders (product management, engineers, designers, executives)
- Advocate for what you think is right, know when to disagree and commit
- Contribute to the definition and expansion of our design system and culture
Our take
The rise of digital content has made video and audio creation more important than ever, but producing polished media can still be quite complex. Descript makes editing accessible to anyone, simplifying recording, editing, and publishing. And its platform empowers over 7M users to bring ideas to life without needing advanced technical skills.
Descript's standout feature is its AI co-editor, Underlord, which lets users create and edit videos just by describing what they want,. It can generate rough cuts, add visuals and B-roll, apply AI effects, and format content for social media. While many creators are still wary of AI in content creation, Descript has built its tools to augment human creativity, giving users control while handling the heavy lifting.
Serving millions of creators and businesses worldwide, Descript keeps innovating with AI features that learn from user input. By combining intuitive tools with responsible AI, the platform is helping content creators work faster and smarter, reshaping video and audio production while keeping the creative vision firmly in human hands.
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Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2022
$50m
SERIES C
Jan 2021
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Health: We’ve got you covered with medical, dental, and vision benefits for all employees and their dependents. These include HMO and PPO healthcare plans
- Time off: Paid holidays are a given, but you can also expect flexible time off. Feel comfortable to take the time you need, when you need it.
- Parental leave: New parents receive paid parental leave to spend quality time with their expanding families.
- Home-office stipend: Get your work-from-home setup ready with our home-office stipend.
- Retirement: We offer a variety of retirement plans, including employer matching.
- Free food & refreshments: Come say hey! Visit our office for free lunch, snacks, and drinks.
- Destination off-sites: No matter where you work, you’ll get to know your team. We host two annual gatherings: a company-wide off-site and a team-specific off-site.
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Laura Burkhauser
(CEO)Laura joined Descript in 2023 as a VP of Product and became CEO in 2025. Prior to this, she was a Director of Product Management at Twitter and Rent The Runway.
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