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).
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.
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.
Descript is hiring AI talent in: United States (2 roles).
Job postings at Descript most frequently mention: Product Management, Decision Making, Apache Airflow, Sim-to-Real Transfer, Resource Management.
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.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| 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-train | 8 |
| 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. | Ship | 7 |
| 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. | — | 5 |
| 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. | — | 5 |
| 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. | — | 5 |
| 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. | — | 5 |
| 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. | — | 5 |
| 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. | — | 5 |
| 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. | — | 5 |
| 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. | — | 5 |
| 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. | Agent | 5 |
| 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. | — | 5 |
| 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. | — | 5 |
| 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. | — | 0 |
| 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. | — | 0 |
| 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. | — | 0 |
| 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. | — | 0 |
| 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. | — | 0 |
| 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. | — | 0 |
| 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. | — | 0 |