Finance at Descript isn’t a back office function. It’s a strategic partner in shaping where and how we grow. This role exists to turn insight into leverage, helping the company make smarter bets, allocate capital effectively, and improve the efficiency of our go to market engine. You will report to the VP of Finance and operate as a senior individual contributor with high ownership.
Your scope covers the full growth funnel, from top of funnel through conversion, retention, and ARR. You will own GTM and growth models, partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Growth, and Data teams, act as a thought partner to GTM leadership on goal setting, performance tracking, and identifying growth opportunities across self serve, product led, and sales led motions.
We are looking for someone who sees GTM finance as both analytical and strategic. Someone who enjoys building models and metrics, but also shaping the narrative around growth. You are comfortable working directly in SQL, navigating imperfect data, and translating complexity into clear recommendations that influence how Descript grows.
What you will do- Own Descript’s top of funnel and growth models, from signups to paid conversion to ARR and retention.
- Own sales-led revenue forecasting, including pipeline modeling, win rates, sales capacity, and quota-driven ARR.
- Build and maintain GTM financial models including ARR builds, channel performance, cohort analysis, and scenario modeling.
- Partner deeply with the data team to define metrics, improve data framework, and enable reliable self-serve analytics for finance and GTM.
- Design and maintain dashboards for key GTM metrics such as signups by channel, conversion rates, new ARR, retention, and payback.
- Identify growth opportunities across self-serve, product-led, and sales-assisted motions and quantify their impact.
- Define GTM goal setting frameworks and track performance against targets.
- Analyze marketing and growth efficiency, including ROI, CAC, payback, and funnel conversion.
- Support pricing, packaging, and monetization initiatives with clear financial analysis.
- Communicate insights to leadership in a clear, decision-oriented way, including exec and board materials when needed.
- 7 to 10+ years of experience in strategic finance, GTM finance, growth analytics, or related roles at SaaS companies.
- Strong GTM intuition with hands-on experience in top of funnel analysis, ARR modeling, and revenue forecasting.
- Advanced SQL skills and the ability to self-serve data end to end.
- Experience supporting both B2B and B2C SaaS models.
- Strong financial modeling skills, especially around growth scenarios and funnel dynamics.
- Experience supporting monetization experiments, pricing, and packaging
- Experience partnering with data teams and working with large, imperfect datasets.
- Clear communicator who can translate data into actions and recommendations.
- Comfortable with ambiguity, high ownership, and building things from scratch.
- Solid understanding of SaaS metrics across PLG and sales-led motions.
If you don’t tick every box above, we’d still encourage you to apply. We’re building a diverse team whose skills balance and complement one another.
The base salary range for this role is $170,000 - $240,000/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
- 7 to 10+ years of experience in strategic finance or related roles
- Strong GTM intuition with hands-on experience in revenue forecasting
- Advanced SQL skills
- Strong financial modeling skills for growth scenarios
- Experience with B2B and B2C SaaS models
- Experience with monetization experiments and pricing
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.
