Descript's core innovation is editing video by editing the script. And every script edit — whether humans or AI — depends on accurate transcripts, precise alignment, and correct speaker detection. Underlord, our video editing agent, relies on precise visual understanding to make your video look better.
As the Product Manager for Media Management, you'll own the media processing pipelines that turn raw recordings into editable, searchable, AI-ready content from transcription to visual understanding. You'll also build the media library that makes Descript the home for everything that teams upload, record, and generate. In short, this role owns the capabilities that make Descript smart, and you'll be building infrastructure that every other team depends on.
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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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.
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.
