Descript is revolutionizing how traditional editing methodologies and AI technologies come together in every part of the creation process (recording, transcribing, editing, and sharing) to make it faster and easier than ever to create high quality content.
About the team:
You'll be part of the Growth engineering team, working alongside other engineers focused on acquisition, activation, and monetization. You'll own the marketing website — the front door to Descript that drives self-serve signups, and enables the enterprise sales motion. While you sit within Growth Engineering, the role is deeply cross-functional: you'll partner closely with Marketing, Brand, Design, and GTM to bring the web experience to life.
We're looking for someone who thinks in systems, not just pages — with the architectural judgment to shape the platform and the craft to ship polished work. Your decisions will directly affect sales funnel, campaign performance, and SEO, and you'll have the autonomy to own it end to end.
What You'll Work OnOwn the platform- Set the technical direction for the CMS and component system — clear architectural boundaries, consistent guardrails, and a foundation that lets marketing and design move fast without fragility
- Enhance and maintain a release and QA discipline: rollback processes, staging environments, and deployment confidence
- Own Core Web Vitals and page speed performance as a first-class concern — and help connect them to measurable conversion rate impact
- Own analytics instrumentation an event taxonomy governance — the technical source of truth for what's happening across the funnel
- Build reusable components and page patterns that make new landing pages and campaigns quick to stand up without one-off engineering lifts
- Maintain and extend A/B testing setup so Marketing team can run clean experiments on those pages at velocity
- Partner with Brand, Design, and Marketing to translate campaigns, landing pages, and brand work into production web code — fast, pixel-faithful, and performant
- Own the technical quality of what ships: accessibility, Core Web Vitals, SEO fundamentals (schema, rendering, structured data), and cross-browser/device behavior
- Be the engineering partner Marketing, Growth, and GTM teams rely on to move fast without breaking the pipeline
- Enable self-serve content workflows through CMS so creative teams can publish without engineering bottlenecks
- Collaborate with GTM and Rev Ops to maintain guardrails on form and routing decisions that affect lead flow reliability
Required:
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a meaningful amount of it focused on web frontend or marketing engineering
- Experience working with a headless CMS or visual editor (Contentful, Builder.io, Webflow, or similar)
- Solid foundation in HTML and CSS — you understand the DOM, can debug layout issues without a framework crutch, and take accessibility (a11y) seriously
- Strong command of TypeScript/JavaScript and React — you write clean, maintainable code and you care about the difference
- Hands-on experience with Next.js — you understand SSR, SSG, ISR, and when to use which
- Deep familiarity with web performance: Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse, lazy loading, bundle optimization
- Comfort with full-stack work: REST APIs, serverless functions, data pipelines, and integrations with third-party services
- Systems thinker who can hold the big picture (platform strategy, cross-functional dependencies) and the details (a broken event tag, a slow LCP) at the same time
- Strong communicator: you can translate technical constraints into plain language for marketing and GTM stakeholders, and you know when to push back
Nice to Have:
- Prior work at a B2B SaaS or PLG company where the website directly supported both self-serve and sales-led motions
- Experience with experimentation platforms (LaunchDarkly, Eppo, or custom frameworks)
- Familiarity with marketing analytics and GTM tooling (Amplitude, Segment, Google Tag Manager, Salesforce integrations)
- Background in technical SEO — schema markup, crawl optimization, rendering strategy
- Experience with lead enrichment and inbound routing platforms (Default, Clearbit, RB2B, or similar)
The base salary range for this role is $160,000 - $215,000/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.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience working with a headless CMS or visual editor
- Solid foundation in HTML and CSS
- Strong command of TypeScript/JavaScript and React
- Hands-on experience with Next.js
- Deep familiarity with web performance metrics
- Comfort with full-stack work including REST APIs
- Strong communication skills
Descript Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Descript and has not been reviewed or approved by Descript.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is comprehensive for employees and dependents, offering medical, dental, and vision with both HMO and PPO options. This breadth is positioned as a primary strength of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is described as flexible or unlimited with paid holidays, encouraging employees to take needed time without strict caps. This supports work-life balance in both remote and on-site setups.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer matching is provided to bolster long-term financial wellness. This sits alongside core health and PTO benefits as part of a solid foundational package.
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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.
