Descript

Product Manager, API & Platform

Descript  •  $171k - $235k/yr  •  San Francisco, CA (Remote)  •  2 months ago
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About the role

Automated video editing is an emerging category, and we're positioned to define it. Media companies want to turn thousands of podcast episodes into social clips. Marketing teams want to automatically create product demos for every release. Agencies want to process client content in bulk with consistent branding. And they want to do all of that at scale.

As the Product Manager for this 0 to 1 area, you'll build and own the platform that makes this all possible. You'll create APIs that let developers programmatically import media, run AI-powered edits, and export content. In essence, turning Descript's already powerful editing capabilities into infrastructure that media businesses can depend on.

What you’ll do

  • Own the API and developer experience that lets teams create content workflows at scale
  • Launch integrations that unlock new use cases: MCP wrappers, no-code workflow platforms, and strategic partner integrations
  • Work closely with our Agentic AI team to influence what editing capabilities we build and how they're exposed through the API
  • Define and grow this business line by shaping positioning, pricing, and go-to-market strategy with Sales and Marketing teams

Who you are

  • You’ve shipped technical products before: You have 5 or more years of product management experience shipping internal APIs, developer platforms, and foundational systems that enable other teams
  • You build things from scratch: Building a brand new product means venturing into the unknown, and you find that energizing rather than scary. You've taken products from 0 to 1, figured out ambiguous problem spaces, and created the playbook to make it successful.
  • You start with the customer Plenty of “AI products” start with the technology and they all suck. You care deeply about understanding customers, and have experience in doing customer discovery and defining features that solve real problems.
  • You are funny, creative, maybe kind of weird Ok, this isn’t a hard requirement but Descript is kind of a quirky place and the people who love it tend to like that about working here. So, just want to drop a hint early on. Also, the sense of humor is important because even though we take our work seriously it’s still just, like, video creation and editing. We aren’t flying rockets into space so let’s all have a good time.

The base salary range for this role is $171,000 - $235,000/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, and location, and may vary from the amount above.

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About Descript

Descript is building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio — an editing tool built for the age of AI. We are a team of 150 and the backing of some of the world's greatest investors ( OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital).

Descript is the special company that's in possession of both product market fit and the raw materials (passionate user community, great product, large market) for growth, but is still early enough that each new employee has a measurable influence on the direction of the company.

Benefits include a generous healthcare package, 401k matching program, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. Our headquarters are located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. We're hiring for a mix of remote roles and hybrid roles. For those who are remote, we have a handful of opportunities throughout the year for in person collaboration. For our hybrid roles, we're flexible, and you're an adult—we don't expect or mandate that you're in the office every day. We do believe there are valuable and serendipitous moments of discovery and collaboration that come from working together in person.

Descript is an equal opportunity workplace—we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We believe in actively building a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to better allow our employees, products, and community to thrive.

Descript

About Descript

In Descript you can make any video you want, any way you want. All you need is an idea; it helps if you know how to type.

With the world’s first and only AI co-editor, Underlord, you can make a video just by describing your vision. It will create, edit, and design your video—all under your direction. It’s got the taste and judgment you want in a creative partner and the expertise you need from a video editor. And it’s tireless—so you can stay focused on getting the result you’re after while it does all the dirty work.

And when you want to get dirty, you don’t need special knowledge or skills. If you can edit text, you can edit video with Descript. It’s loaded with automated design tools, plus the friendliest timeline editor you’ve ever seen, a built-in recorder, and hosted publishing that makes collaboration as easy as sending a link.

With Descript’s powerful AI and intuitive tools, your creativity is unbounded—freed from the limitations of what you don’t know, and what AI can’t know.

Create product demos, training videos, screen recordings, video messages, podcasts, or social clips. Join the 7 million+ creators and businesses using Descript, and create something impressive—something you can be proud of.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Year Founded
2017
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