Product Manager, Descript

$170-200k

Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, and location, and they may vary from the amount above.

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from Canada, US

More information about location

AI video & podcast editor

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AI video & podcast editor

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceVideoMedia

Job no longer available

$170-200k

Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, and location, and they may vary from the amount above.

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from Canada, US

More information about location

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceVideoMedia

Company mission

To make it easy for anyone o record, edit, and share any video.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Experience: You have 3+ years of product management experience at a SAAS company, preferably in a startup environment
Empathy: You care deeply about understanding customers, and have demonstrated experience in doing customer discovery and defining features that solve customer problems
Structured thinking: You are highly organized and process-oriented, and are comfortable working in environments where individuals are responsible for setting their own day-to-day priorities
Excellent communication skills: You are known for clear, direct communication (written and verbal) and collaborating well with a diverse set of colleagues (engineers, designers, marketers and executives)
Technical skills. You are technically-minded PM; you have experience using analytics and business intelligence platforms to understand user behavior
An appreciation of quality: You are enthusiastic about your favorite products, and can articulate why they’re incredible. You have experience collaborating with designers and engineers to build intuitive and delightful user experiences

What the job involves

You’ll help define the strategy, build the roadmap and ship features for one of our key product teams. You’ll work closely with a team of world-class PMs, engineers, designers, researchers and product marketers who are all driven to do the best work of their careers
Drive the feature roadmap for your team, from idea generation through to execution and analysis. You’ll bring clarity and focus to your team, and help them deliver value to users reliably and effectively
Collaborate with design, engineering and marketing to ship product features that delight our users and deliver meaningful impact on Descript’s business. You’ll sweat the details on product quality
Develop a deep understanding of our users and their needs. You’ll use qualitative and quantitative insights to help develop your team’s strategy and inform your product ideas
Embrace data-informed decision making, by developing and testing product hypotheses. You’ll capture insights from growth test success and failures, and communicate them to the broader team

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.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

Top investors

30% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.4)

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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