About the Role
We’re looking for a motivated and detail-oriented Accounting Manager to join the finance team at Descript. This is an exciting opportunity for a strong Senior Accountant or newly promoted Accounting Manager to take ownership of the company’s core accounting operations and help shape the next stage of Descript’s financial maturity.
Reporting directly to the Controller, this person will own the majority of the month-end close process — including cash, prepaids, fixed assets, accounts payable, accruals, and related reconciliations. Beyond the close, they’ll lead the day-to-day accounting operations across accounts payable, procurement, and accounts receivable, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance across all processes.
This is a highly visible role with room to grow. The ideal candidate will bring strong operational accounting skills, a process-driven mindset, and a desire to implement scalable controls and systems that support a growing, operationally mature organization. You’ll work cross-functionally with teams across Finance, RevOps, and People to streamline workflows, improve reporting accuracy, and help Descript build a best-in-class accounting function.
Responsibilities
- Own key areas of the monthly close, including cash, prepaids, fixed assets, accounts payable, accruals, and reconciliations
- Manage the day-to-day accounting operations, including AP, AR, and procurement workflows.
- Prepare and review journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules
- Partner with the Controller to design and implement accounting controls, policies, and procedures
- Drive process improvements to increase efficiency and consistency across accounting operations
- Support audit readiness, financial reporting, and compliance initiatives
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Finance, RevOps, Engineering) to ensure accurate and timely financial data
- Contribute to system enhancements and automation efforts as Descript scales.
Who You Are
- Experienced accounting professional with 4–7 years of progressive experience (public accounting and tech/startup experience strongly preferred)
- CPA preferred (or working toward it) is a plus, but not required
- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, account reconciliations, and financial statement preparation
- Hands-on with month-end close and comfortable working across multiple accounting areas (cash, prepaids, accruals, AP, AR, etc.)
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and proactive — you take ownership and follow through.
- Experience implementing or improving internal controls and accounting processes
- Curious, collaborative, and motivated by helping a fast-growing company scale responsibly
Bonus Points
- You have a “roll up your sleeves” mentality, willing to help whenever and wherever,
- You have experience with a wide range of Accounting Tools (NetSuite, Zip, Stripe, Numeric, Navan, etc.)
- You have B2C experience, working with large volumes of datasets
The base salary range for this role is $145,000 - 165,000/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, and location, and may vary from the amount above.
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.
Top Skills
What We Do
Descript builds simple and powerful collaborative tools for new media creators. We strive to eliminate the tedious work that often stands between an idea and its expression, so that creators can focus on developing their craft instead of their usage of tools.
Descript is a next generation digital media platform that offers a new "engine" that lets you edit audio by editing text (instead of waveforms).
That means it does transcription (both automated and human-powered, whichever you prefer), but more interestingly, it lets you move the audio around by simply editing the transcript.
If you're new to editing audio, you'll find it far easier - it's basically like using a word processor. If you're experienced, Descript is faster than waveform editing - and more fun.
If you work with voice audio (as opposed to music), Descript is what the future looks like...join us and change the world.
