Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Descript is building a simple, intuitive editing tool for video and audio designed for the age of AI. The Lead Product Manager of the Narrative Editing team will own how users capture, edit, and perfect stories, guiding the editor roadmap and developing script-first editing, recording, writing, translation, and AI regeneration features. The role also partners with AI Research and ensures the product scales for larger teams and complex workflows.
Responsibilities
- Develop a deep understanding of our customers, their creative goals, and the evolving AI video landscape — and use those insights to guide the editor roadmap
- Bring Descript's taste for great video into interactions and defaults, so creators naturally produce polished, professional work
- Continuously expand our editing capabilities with frontier AI technology by partnering with our AI Research team, launching features like video regeneration and automatic speaker identification
- Own the recording, script generation, and translation flows that help users achieve their end-to-end video workflows directly in Descript
- Ensure Descript scales reliably for larger teams and more complex workflows
Skills
- You've built deceptively powerful tools: You have 5 or more years of product management experience shipping creative tools or workflow products that feel simple enough for everyone, but scale to handle sophisticated use cases. You are a systems-minded product thinker who excels at designing intuitive experiences for complex, end-to-end workflows
- You start with the customer: Plenty of “AI products” start with the technology and they all suck. You care deeply about understanding customers, and have experience in doing customer discovery and defining features that solve real problems
- You are a fog sculptor: There are aspects to our editor and its design that do not have real competitors yet. The product intuition and design conventions have not been decided. You are attracted to ambiguous problems, know how to ask smart questions, and translate ideas into action
- You care about craft: Our product is not a hype machine that runs on empty promises and vaporware. We think our product will be successful because people love to use it. That means you sweat the details. But without the sweat, because you aren't stressed out
- You are funny, creative, maybe kind of weird: Ok, this isn't a hard requirement but Descript is kind of a quirky place and the people who love it tend to like that about working here. So, just want to drop a hint early on. Also, the sense of humor is important because even though we take our work seriously it's still just, like, video creation and editing. We aren't flying rockets into space so let's all have a good time
- Ok, this isn't a hard requirement but Descript is kind of a quirky place and the people who love it tend to *like* that about working here
Benefits
- Generous healthcare package
- 401k matching program
- Catered lunches
- Flexible vacation time
- Remote roles and hybrid roles
- 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.
- For those who are remote, we have a handful of opportunities throughout the year for in person collaboration.
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