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Product Designer (Growth & Monetization) Descript
AI video and podcast editing made easy.
Permanent
San Francisco
Remote: Not specified
150K to 215K $ a year
> 5 years
You'll be part of
192 employees
Logiciels
Intelligence artificielle / Machine Learning
Média
Our take
The rise of digital content has made video and audio creation more important than ever, but producing polished media can still be quite complex. Descript makes editing accessible to anyone, simplifying recording, editing, and publishing. And its platform empowers over 7M users to bring ideas to life without needing advanced technical skills. Descript's standout feature is its AI co-editor, Underlord, which lets users create and edit videos just by describing what they want,. It can generate rough cuts, add visuals and B-roll, apply AI effects, and format content for social media. While many creators are still wary of AI in content creation, Descript has built its tools to augment human creativity, giving users control while handling the heavy lifting. Serving millions of creators and businesses worldwide, Descript keeps innovating with AI features that learn from user input. By combining intuitive tools with responsible AI, the platform is helping content creators work faster and smarter, reshaping video and audio production while keeping the creative vision firmly in human hands.
You'll be working on
- As a Product Designer, you’ll help our users understand the value of Descript and find early success using it on our Growth team
- Designers who do well here aren’t afraid of ambiguity and have a knack for navigating it collaboratively. Join us to help build the future of creative tools
- Play a vital role on our growth team, driving design decisions and shaping strategy
- Take an experimental approach to solving problems that matter to our users and business
- Use data to optimize user experiences for impact
- Balance the need for speed with a high bar for craft, eye for detail, and deep empathy for users
- Own your design process from concept through to execution
- Bring clarity to problems that are broad and ambiguous in scope through structured thinking and effective communication
- Collaborate deeply with diverse stakeholders (product management, engineers, designers, executives)
- Advocate for what you think is right, know when to disagree and commit
- Contribute to the definition and expansion of our design system and culture
Benefits
- Health: We’ve got you covered with medical, dental, and vision benefits for all employees and their dependents. These include HMO and PPO healthcare plans.
- Retirement: We offer a variety of retirement plans, including employer matching. Not exciting to talk about, but the match is competitive and the plans are good.
- Time off: Paid holidays are a given, but you can also expect flexible time off. Feel comfortable to take the time you need, when you need it.
- Parental leave: New parents receive paid parental leave to spend quality time with their expanding families.
- Home-office stipend: Get your work-from-home setup ready with our home-office stipend.
- Destination off-sites: No matter where you decide to work, you’ll get to know your team at our annual off-site gatherings.
We're looking for
- You’re a pro at using data to create and iterate on user experiences that marry user needs and measurable business impact
- Self-direction, you own your own work and deliver on your commitments
- Clear, direct communication
- AI literacy—you don’t have to be AI-pilled, but it’s a growing part of how we work here
- Exceptional interaction and visual design skills
- Crit skills—know how to give and receive feedback well
- Data fluency and past success working on growth experiments
- Experience on a fast-growing team
- A portfolio demonstrating your ability to handle complexity and create compelling, data-informed user experiences that convert
- Ability to work through ambiguity and create clarity, quickly
- 5+ years as a designer, the majority of it spent in product
- At least 2 of the following stand-out skills:
- Past work building and/or working on a creation tool (e.g., word processor, design tool, audio or video editing tool)
- Experience building or working on a mature design system
- Comfort with designer-led user research
- Expertise in accessibility
- An interest in Vibe coding (or, hey, code coding) for prototyping
- Finding new tools and processes to improve the design process
- UI animation skills
- Experience designing for AI/ML-powered projects