Descript’s vision is to put video in every communicator’s toolkit. Back in the day you needed like six monitors and a bachelor’s degree to edit video. Descript lets you do it by editing docs & slides, and increasingly by just asking AI. In the future, maybe you won’t even need to ask! But building a new way to record or generate (or both!) videos that look & sound good comes with a series of unique design, technology, and business challenges. In other words, we need really good product managers.
As a Growth Product Manager, you’ll be responsible for identifying, testing, and scaling the product experiences that drive user acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization. We’re a small, flat team. You’ll work closely with world-class PMs, engineers, designers, researchers, data scientists, and product marketers — all driven to do the best work of their careers while moving the metrics that matter most.
What you’ll do- Develop a deep understanding of our customers, market, and growth levers across the user lifecycle.
- Lead experiments and initiatives that meaningfully impact acquisition, activation, engagement, and retention.
- Define and own the growth strategy and roadmap for your product area — from opportunity sizing to execution to measuring results.
- Partner with design, engineering, data, and marketing to deliver features and experiments that both delight users and accelerate Descript’s growth.
- Analyze user behavior, funnel performance, and A/B test results to uncover insights and inform next steps.
- Drive company-wide growth initiatives that balance customer value with sustainable business impact.
- You have seen (and shipped) some things: You have 7+ years of product management experience, with at least a few in growth-focused roles. You’ve worked on products with technical complexity, high design craft, and measurable growth impact. You can direct your own to-do list and make a ton of progress between check-ins. You won’t be blocked.
- You start with the customer and the data: You care deeply about understanding customers and have a proven track record of turning insights into growth strategies. You’ve led discovery work, defined features, and run experiments that solve real problems and move key metrics.
- You are a fog sculptor: Many of our growth opportunities don’t have obvious playbooks or direct competitors. You thrive in ambiguity, shaping unformed ideas into clear strategies and repeatable wins.
- You care about craft and impact: You balance high-quality product experiences with a relentless focus on measurable outcomes. You know that the most delightful growth loops are the ones that feel effortless to the user.
- You are funny, creative, maybe kind of weird: Ok, this isn’t a hard requirement, but Descript is a quirky place, and the people who thrive here tend to like that. A good sense of humor goes a long way — after all, we’re building creative tools, not launching rockets.
The base salary range for this role is $230,000 - $275,000/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 — with a proven CEO 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, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. Our headquarters are located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. We're looking to hire people who are local and able to join us at the office when needed. We're flexible, and you're an adult—we don't expect or mandate that you're in the office every day. But 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.
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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.
