Job Description
As a Product Designer, you’ll help our users understand the value of Descript and find early success using it on our Growth team. You’re a pro at using data to create and iterate on user experiences that marry user needs and measurable business impact. 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.
You will
- 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
Requirements
- 5+ years as a designer, the majority of it spent in product
- A portfolio demonstrating your ability to handle complexity and create compelling, data-informed user experiences that convert
- Data fluency and past success working on growth experiments
- Exceptional interaction and visual design skills
- Experience on a fast-growing team
- Ability to work through ambiguity and create clarity, quickly
- Clear, direct communication
- Self-direction, you own your own work and deliver on your commitments
- Crit skills—know how to give and receive feedback well
- AI literacy—you don’t have to be AI-pilled, but it’s a growing part of how we work here
- At least 2 of the following stand-out skills
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
- Expertise in accessibility
- Comfort with designer-led user research
- 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
The base salary range for this role is $150,000-$215,000.Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, and location, and they may vary from the amount above.
About Descript
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.
