Descript Benefits Overview

Own and evolve the company’s infrastructure platform, including GCP, Kubernetes, Temporal, GPU systems, deployment tooling, CI/CD, developer environments, and reliability practices. Build AI training and inference infrastructure, manage cloud costs, enforce security boundaries, improve observability and incident response, and guide architecture. The role includes on-call responsibilities, technical mentoring, roadmap ownership, and partnering closely with engineering teams to improve how systems are developed and operated.

Own customer-facing product features end to end, from problem definition and design through implementation, launch, measurement, and maintenance. Build reliable full-stack systems across video editing, growth and monetization, media management, or AI products. Partner with Product and Design, run experiments, analyze metrics, improve engineering practices, and provide architectural guidance, reviews, and mentoring.

Own the full B2B sales cycle for Descript’s video and AI solutions, including prospecting, outbound pipeline generation, product demonstrations, complex deal negotiations, closing, and expansion. Build executive relationships with enterprise customers, collaborate with Product and Marketing, attend industry events and customer meetings, and help shape the company’s sales strategy and playbook.