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Descript currently has 7 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are in the application stage, representing 43% of the openings, with an equal percentage also in the agents stage. Engineering is the primary function hiring for AI talent, with the United States being the dominant hiring country. Frequent tech tags include multimodal, evals, and model_serving, suggesting a focus on developing and deploying AI models.

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Currently tracking 1 active AI role, with 6 new openings in the last 4 weeks. Primary focus: Ship · Engineering. Salary range $171k–$286k (avg $228k).

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Descript

Descript

AI Frontier · AI audio/video editing

Frequently asked questions

  • What AI roles is Descript hiring for?

    Descript currently has 2 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Engineering Manager, Agent, Product Manager, API & Platform. Most positions are in Product and Engineering.

  • What stage of AI development does Descript focus on?

    Descript's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (100%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.

  • Where is Descript hiring AI talent?

    Descript is hiring AI talent in: United States (2 roles).

  • What skills does Descript look for in AI roles?

    Job postings at Descript most frequently mention: Product Management, Decision Making, Apache Airflow, Sim-to-Real Transfer, Resource Management.

Jobs (32)

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Engineering Manager, Agent
Engineering Manager for Descript's Agent team, focused on building the Agentic Video Editor, Underlord. The role involves managing a team of 5-6 software engineers, driving product experience for agentic video editing, leading experimentation, strengthening Evals, and partnering with AI Research on exploratory improvements. The team is scaling its agent infrastructure and product experience.
AgentEngineeringSan Francisco, CAApr 18
Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform and Enablement
Senior Software Engineer on the AI Platform and Enablement team at Descript, focusing on integrating and managing AI models (both first-party and third-party) into a next-generation AI-powered audio and video content creation platform. Responsibilities include building and maintaining model integrations, designing and implementing AI infrastructure (data pipelines, training, evaluation, deployment), optimizing inference, and collaborating with research and product teams.
ServePost-trainEngineeringRemoteJan 78
Senior Software Engineer, Agent
Senior Software Engineer on the Agent team at Descript, focused on building and scaling agentic video editing capabilities. The role involves improving user experience, agent infrastructure, and developer experience for building agents, with opportunities for experimentation in areas like harness and tool design, prompt optimization, and RL.
AgentEngineeringRemoteOct '258
Product Manager, AI Models
Product Manager to lead the AI Research and Enablement roadmap, focusing on integrating cutting-edge AI research with production ML infrastructure and product strategy. Responsibilities include making build vs. buy decisions, guiding research direction, owning the evals strategy, driving quality standards for AI models, and optimizing costs and infrastructure for AI capabilities. Requires experience in AI/ML product management, understanding of ML systems and LLMs, and experience with production AI/ML shipping, evals frameworks, training, and inference infrastructure.
ShipPost-trainProductSan Francisco, CAMay '258
Engineering Manager, Narrative Editing
Engineering Manager for the Narrative Editing team at Descript, focusing on integrating generative AI and script-based editing into video creation workflows. The role involves managing a team of software engineers, partnering with AI teams, and driving product quality and iteration for AI-powered features.
ShipPost-trainEngineeringSan Francisco, CAFeb 117
Product Manager, Editor
Product Manager for Descript's Narrative Editing team, focusing on features that help creators capture, edit, and perfect their stories using script-based editing and AI regeneration. The role involves understanding customer needs, guiding the product roadmap, and partnering with AI Research to launch new features.
ShipProductSan Francisco, CASep '257
Content Strategist
Content Strategist to build an AI-native content production system that produces compelling content across formats, optimizes for AI discovery, and supports brand and demand generation. This role requires deep experience in content strategy, content marketing, and leveraging user data and AI tooling for scalable, original content creation.
—ProductSan Francisco, CA · Remote4w ago5
Product Marketing Manager
Product Marketing Manager for Descript, an AI-powered video and podcast editor, focusing on the Enterprise business. The role involves defining go-to-market strategies, creating messaging, enabling sales teams, and driving revenue through product innovation. It requires strong B2B SaaS product marketing experience, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to build systems that connect product marketing to business outcomes. Experience with APIs, technical products, pricing, and AI-native workflows is a plus.
—ProductSan Francisco, CA · Remote4w ago5
Head of Enterprise Marketing
Head of Enterprise Marketing role at Descript, a company building AI-powered audio and video editing tools. This is a builder role focused on owning the end-to-end enterprise marketing motion, including pipeline strategy, self-serve to enterprise conversion, performance measurement, and cross-functional partnerships. The role requires experience in B2B marketing, scaling upmarket motions, and a product-led growth environment. A key aspect involves building AI-first marketing operations and measurement frameworks.
—ProductSan Francisco, CA5w ago5
Lead Growth PM
Lead Growth Product Manager at Descript, a company whose product vision is centered around AI for video editing. This role focuses on identifying, testing, and scaling product experiences to drive user acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization for both self-serve and enterprise products. The PM will define and own the growth strategy, partner with cross-functional teams, analyze user behavior, and drive company-wide growth initiatives.
—ProductSan Francisco, CAApr 215
Lead UX Researcher
Lead UX Researcher for Descript, an AI-powered video platform. This role focuses on understanding users, shaping product decisions, and scaling UX research practices across the organization. The researcher will conduct end-to-end studies, develop deep customer understanding, and coach PMs and designers. Experience with research operations and influencing product strategy is required. The role leverages AI tools to enhance research practices.
—ProductSan Francisco, CA · RemoteApr 25
Senior Counsel
Senior Counsel role at Descript, focusing on building the legal function from scratch. Responsibilities include commercial contracts, enterprise sales support, employment matters, IP coordination, privacy & data protection, AI & product counsel, compliance & risk management (including SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA, and AI/ML regulations), corporate governance, and managing outside counsel. The role requires building scalable legal processes and advising product/engineering teams on AI/ML legal implications.
—ProductSan Francisco, CAMar 165
Product Designer, Growth & Monetization
Product Designer focused on growth and monetization for Descript, a creative tool company leveraging AI. The role involves using data to optimize user experiences, driving design strategy, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires 5+ years of product design experience, a strong portfolio, and data fluency. AI literacy and experience with AI/ML-powered projects are highlighted as stand-out skills.
—ProductSan Francisco, CAMar 105
Senior Data Scientist, Marketing
The role focuses on leveraging AI and machine learning to enhance marketing analytics, automate decision-making, and build predictive models for user behavior and conversion. It involves developing measurement frameworks, optimizing performance, and creating AI-powered tools for marketing insights and forecasting.
AgentEngineeringSan Francisco, CAMar 65
Account Executive
Account Executive for Descript, a company offering video and AI solutions. The role involves owning the full sales cycle, developing outbound strategies, running product demos, and building executive relationships. Requires proven success in B2B SaaS or AI sales, experience managing complex sales cycles, and enthusiasm for creator-oriented tools in video, audio, or AI.
—ProductSan Francisco, CA · RemoteFeb 165
Product Manager, API & Platform
Product Manager to own and build the API and developer platform for Descript's automated video editing capabilities, enabling programmatic import, AI-powered edits, and content export for media businesses. This role involves defining and growing a new business line, influencing AI editing capabilities, and shaping go-to-market strategy.
AgentProductSan Francisco, CA · RemoteJan 305
Director, Demand Generation
This role is for a Director of Demand Generation at Descript, a company that builds AI-powered editing tools. The primary focus is on defining and executing strategies to fuel pipeline and revenue growth across enterprise and self-serve business lines. Responsibilities include building and leading demand generation strategy, developing systems for pipeline generation, owning MQLs through multi-channel campaigns, partnering with cross-functional teams on funnel KPIs, mentoring a team, and enhancing marketing automation and reporting. The role requires 10+ years of B2B SaaS demand generation/growth marketing experience, with at least 3-5 years in leadership, and advanced knowledge of AI-powered marketing stacks. Experience marketing AI-native products is a bonus.
—ProductSan Francisco, CADec '255
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
This role is for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Descript, a company focused on AI-powered audio and video content creation. The engineer will own and improve core production infrastructure, focusing on reliability, performance, availability, and quality. Responsibilities include developing solutions to enhance feature reliability, improving core infrastructure (clusters, networking, databases, observability), championing best practices, owning incident management, and working with leadership on production reliability goals. The role requires 5+ years of SRE or server-side engineering experience, strong systems fundamentals, and experience mentoring engineers. Nice-to-haves include experience with TypeScript, Kubernetes, GCP, and Terraform. The company uses AI in its media editor but this role is focused on the underlying infrastructure.
—EngineeringSan Francisco, CA · RemoteOct '255
Head of Partnerships
Lead Descript's ecosystem strategy, forging and scaling relationships that drive distribution, unlock commercial opportunities, and enhance product capabilities through integrations. This role blends business development, product strategy, and co-marketing, focusing on strategic partnerships within AI, generative media, and creator ecosystems.
—ProductSan Francisco, CASep '255
Software Engineer, Editor
Software Engineer to build a best-in-class video editing and streaming platform that integrates AI functionality for content creation. Focuses on core editing experience and enabling users to make excellent video and audio content.
ShipEngineeringRemoteSep '255
Social Media Manager
This role is for a Social Media Manager at Descript, a company that builds AI-powered editing tools. The manager will own Descript's social media presence, develop strategies, manage content, engage with the community, and build an employee advocacy program. They will also support executive thought leadership and work cross-functionally to ensure company launches and campaigns reach the right social audiences. The role requires 3-5 years of social media experience, a deep understanding of the new media landscape, and the ability to build social systems. Experience with employee advocacy programs and supporting executive communications is preferred. The company offers a salary range of $110k - $140k/year.
—ProductSan Francisco, CA · Remote3w ago0
Field Marketing Manager
This role is for a Field Marketing Manager at Descript, a company building an AI-powered platform for audio and video content creation. The manager will be responsible for building the field marketing strategy from the ground up, creating experiences to introduce new audiences to the product, deepen customer relationships, and generate pipeline for the enterprise business. This includes planning, developing, and executing integrated field marketing programs, managing budgets, vendors, and logistics, and measuring program impact.
—ProductSan Francisco, CA · Remote5w ago0
Lead Design Engineer
Lead Design Engineer role at Descript, focusing on building and maintaining a product design system. The role involves collaborating with product designers, writing production-quality code, ensuring accessibility, and mentoring designers. Requires 8+ years of experience in design and engineering, proficiency in Figma, and strong front-end skills, particularly with React and CSS. Experience with AI in design system workflows is a plus.
—EngineeringSan Francisco, CA · Remote6w ago0
Senior Frontend Engineer, Marketing Web
Senior Frontend Engineer, Marketing Web at Descript. This role focuses on owning and enhancing the marketing website, which is crucial for driving signups and supporting the enterprise sales motion. The engineer will set technical direction for the CMS and component system, improve release and QA processes, optimize Core Web Vitals and page speed, and manage analytics instrumentation. Responsibilities include building reusable components, maintaining A/B testing setups, ensuring technical quality (accessibility, SEO, cross-browser compatibility), and enabling self-serve content workflows. The role requires strong frontend skills, experience with headless CMS, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Next.js, and web performance optimization, with comfort in full-stack tasks.
—EngineeringSan Francisco, CA · RemoteApr 290
Senior Software Engineer, Growth
Senior/Staff Software Engineer for the Growth team at Descript, focusing on building systems for user journey personalization, data pipelines, and experimentation. The role involves full-stack development (React, TypeScript, APIs) and owning A/B tests from hypothesis to analysis. Requires strong software engineering experience, A/B testing knowledge, and a focus on business outcomes.
—EngineeringRemoteMar 300
Director, Customer Success
Director of Customer Success to lead, scale, and mature the Customer Success function, build best practices, shape post-sale motion, and partner cross-functionally to accelerate adoption and expansion within the Enterprise customer base. This role is for a builder who thrives in early-stage environments and will work closely with the VP of Sales to define customer success strategy, ensure customer success and growth, and establish Descript as the industry standard for modern media-creation workflows.
—ProductSan Francisco, CAMar 230
Director, Sales
Director of Sales for the US to lead growth for Descript, a company redefining video and audio creation with AI-powered workflows. The role involves building and mentoring a sales team, driving go-to-market strategy, and partnering with cross-functional teams to accelerate enterprise adoption of AI-driven video creation.
—ProductSan Francisco, CAMar 230
AI Growth Specialist (BDR)
This is a Business Development Representative (BDR) role focused on outbound prospecting and qualifying new business opportunities for an AI company. The role involves driving pipeline generation through various communication channels, executing sales cadences, and collaborating with internal teams like Marketing, Sales, and Product. Success is measured by activity, pipeline generation, and closed revenue.
—ProductSan Francisco, CA · RemoteMar 230
Senior Software Engineer, Client Platform
Senior Software Engineer role focused on client platform development at Descript, a company building an AI-powered media editor. The role involves owning React usage, evolving the design system, improving app performance, enhancing testing strategies, and enabling other engineers. Requires deep expertise in React, platform/infrastructure experience, and client-side performance tuning.
—EngineeringRemoteMar 180
Senior Accounting Manager
Senior Accounting Manager role at Descript, a company building an AI-powered editing tool. The role focuses on owning month-end close, financial reporting, core accounting operations, revenue recognition (ASC 606), tax & compliance, and systems/process improvements. Requires 5-8+ years of accounting experience, strong US GAAP knowledge, and NetSuite experience. The company offers a base salary range of $160,000 - $185,000/year.
—ProductSan Francisco, CAMar 160
Strategic Finance, GTM
This role is for a Strategic Finance professional at Descript, an AI-powered audio and video editing tool company. The role focuses on GTM (Go-To-Market) finance, growth modeling, and financial analysis to support sales, marketing, and product teams. It requires strong analytical skills, SQL proficiency, and experience in SaaS financial modeling. While Descript is an AI company, this specific role is not directly involved in building or researching AI/ML models, but rather supports the business functions of an AI product company.
—ProductSan Francisco, CADec '250
Lead Data Scientist, Product ——San Francisco, CA7w ago—