Creative Director, Descript
$195-220k
AI video & podcast editor
Job no longer available
AI video & podcast editor
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$195-220k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make it easy for anyone o record, edit, and share any video.
Role
Who you are
- Strong ability to shape and execute brand design at a high level — especially across web and product marketing
- Experienced in leading brand and web design at a high-growth company or creative agency
- A visual communicator — you're a picture person. You think in color, layout, and movement
- Proven operational experience — you can bring structure, clarity, and calm to fast-moving projects and teams
- Collaborative, open, friendly, and curious
- Bonus if you’ve worked on AI products
What the job involves
- Descript makes creating beautifully designed video as easy as creating docs and slides
- Its text-based editing, automated design, and AI superpowers enable communicators to record, edit, and share professional-quality video without professional video skills
- And teams in marketing, sales, support, and learning & development use Descript to scale their video production without scaling their teams or their budgets
- We’re looking for a Creative Director - someone who brings together creative vision, a commitment to craft, and a proven approach to team operations
- This person knows how to lead teams to consistently produce outstanding work and deepen their skills…and their track record proves it
- In their own creative work, they excel at simplifying complex ideas and turning cutting-edge technologies into stories that are engaging and easy to grasp
- This role is for someone who doesn’t just direct from the sidelines: you’re a play coach, ready to roll up your sleeves, jump into the work, and push the brand forward with originality and craft
- You’ll work closely with marketing, product, and leadership to shape how Descript shows up in the world - particularly across our website, brand campaigns, and GTM for new offerings
- Define and evolve the Descript brand, with a focus on visual design and web presence
- Lead and manage a small but mighty team of brand designers — setting the bar for creative excellence
- Collaborate across marketing, product, and leadership to translate strategy into breakthrough creative
- Be hands-on in the work: sketching, designing, and giving thoughtful feedback that improves the output
- Balance high craft with speed and iteration — a taste for risk and experimentation, grounded in design rigor
- Ensure a strong design process across the team, with clear briefs, reviews, timelines, and expectations
- Help the team advance and build out the brand design system
- Protect and nurture the creative team’s space to do their best work, without unnecessary chaos
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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