Descript is the AI video and audio editor that makes editing as easy as editing text. Record, transcribe, edit, and publish in one tool. Try it free. Backed by a16z and Redpoint.
About the role
Product engineering at Descript means owning outcomes, not just tickets — you'll take a problem from a rough idea to a shipped, measured result, working closely with product, design, and the rest of engineering along the way. We organize around a few teams, each responsible for a distinct part of the product: Regardless of your team you’ll have the opportunity to design thoughtful full-stack systems that work reliably and deliver value to new and existing users.
What they're looking for
- You have 5+ years of experience building and shipping customer-facing products, including end-to-end features that measurably improved user or business outcomes
- You effectively leverage agents to multiply your impact and think critically about how to better harness AI in your work
- You’ve owned features/experiments end to end, from planning through launch, and leveraged analytics and metrics to evaluate impact
- You orient quickly in unfamiliar systems by exploring and asking thoughtful questions to both your teammates and agents
- You care about how software feels and notice when the technically correct result is still wrong for the user
- You create clarity in ambiguous work and can navigate (and simplify!) significant product and technical complexity
More about this role
Product engineering at Descript means owning outcomes, not just tickets — you'll take a problem from a rough idea to a shipped, measured result, working closely with product, design, and the rest of engineering along the way. We organize around a few teams, each responsible for a distinct part of the product:
- Editor: owns our video editor. Help make traditionally complex video-editing workflows simpler, craft cutting-edge AI into practical creative tools, and build on our vision of turning a text-editor for video into a tool that puts video in everyone's communication toolkit.
- Growth & Monetization: owns onboarding and activation, growth loops and in-product experiments, plans and pricing, checkout, billing, and AI credits. Help turn visitors into customers and customers into revenue.
- Media: owns project and media management (plus importing, managing, manipulating, compositing, transitions, shaders, visual and audio effects, rendering, exporting, and more!).
- AI: owns our agentic co-editor, Underlord, and the external API that allows it to scale. Help improve Underlord's harness to enhance its powers, polish its UX and editor integration, and add more capability to our API...
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