As a Senior Product Designer, you will help build end-to-end experiences for our users — from improvement to our project browser, our accounts admin, to upcoming editor features. You’ll collaborate closely with user research, product management and engineering to design and ship experiences that make it easy for anyone to create and edit video.
Our product is an intricate web of interconnected features, which means design at Descript is mostly about systems design. Designers who do well here are ones are the ones who love mind-melting puzzles, where you have to figure out how to keep all the interconnected parts straight in your head, and build something that has structural integrity while elegantly serving the needs of users. Join us to help build the future of creative tools.
Responsibilities
- Be the lead designer in a feature team, working closely with key stakeholders and fellow designers to define next-generation video editing experiences
- Bring clarity and insight to problems that are broad and ambiguous in scope, integrating user, business, and technical constraints through structured thinking and concise communication
- Contribute to the definition and expansion of our design system
- Own the design process from concept through to execution, iterating based on feedback and user research
- Collaborate with PMs, user research and fellow product designers to make your work better, and be there as a thought partner for others when they need your help
- Design superb user experiences, with an insane attention to detail
Requirements
- 6+ years as a product designer
- You have experience designing web, mobile or desktop applications with sophisticated user workflows and systems design challenges
- Experience on a fast-growing team, where you’ve operated in a fast-paced environment of uncertainty
- You are known for clear, direct communication and collaborating well with a diverse set of interest groups (engineers, designers, executives)
- You are highly organized and take your commitments seriously
- You enjoy working in ambiguity and can lead the design process for a cross-functional team
- You have a portfolio that exhibits strong systems design and conceptual thinking, and a real passion for your craft
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience in Design
Nice to haves
- Experience building and/or working on a creation tool (e.g., word processor, design tool, audio or video editing tool)
The base salary range for this role is $163,00-$192,500. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, and location, and they 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.
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.
