Currently tracking 6 active AI roles, up 33% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Ship · Engineering. Salary range $171k–$286k (avg $228k).
AI Frontier · AI audio/video editing
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Agent | 8 |
| 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-train | 8 |
| 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. | Agent | 8 |
| 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 |
| 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-train | 7 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. | Agent | 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 |
| 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. | — | 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 |
| 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. | Ship | 5 |
| 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. | — | 0 |
| 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. | — | 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 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. | — | 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 |