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.

Descript

Engineering Manager

• Manage, build out, and mentor a team of high performing AI engineers
• Work with product and research teams to craft technical and product vision for AI features
• Collaborate with research teams to push boundaries of generative AI
• Create inclusive culture fostering radical candor and challenging of group think
• Ensure safe and rapid deployment of AI models for enhanced audio and video editing experience

Engineering Manager, AI Platform

Full-stack Engineer

• Building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio - an editing tool built for the age of AI
• Team of 140 with a proven CEO and the backing of top investors
• Benefits of working at Descript include a dedicated team, great product, and large market for growth

Software Engineer - Platform

• Develop a roadmap in partnership with the Engineering Managers and technical leads and ensure execution is predictable, reliable and sustainable
• Recruit, grow and coach Managers and ICs ensuring they receive regular feedback and opportunities to make rapid progress on their personal and professional goals
• Shape the broader engineering organization’s operating model by spearheading technical practices, recruiting, onboarding strategy, planning and prioritization process and more
• Provide product visions that align with company ideals and manage end to end technology execution performed by your team of engineers and cross-functional partners
• Communicate clearly and efficiently with the leadership team regarding the statuses and results of current projects
• Identify, recommend, and implement new technologies and systems to improve corporate processes and decision-making
• Help scale our culture as we grow

Director, Engineering

Analytics Engineer

• Design, develop, and optimize robust data pipelines and models to facilitate seamless financial modeling and reporting.
• Work closely with Finance, Marketing, Sales, and Product teams to develop a deep understanding of Descript’s operations and build data pipelines and reporting to support financial reporting.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine metrics and build intuitive dashboards that empower stakeholders with actionable insights.

Analytics Engineer, Finance

• Our vision is to build the next generation platform to enable easy and fast creation of audio and video content powered by cutting-edge AI.
• Building a revolutionary way to record, transcribe, edit and mix spoken audio and video comes with a series of unique challenges and requires solving hard and complex problems.
• Technical Challenges at Descript
  - Build best-in-class audio & video recording technology that works on web, desktop, and (eventually) mobile
  - Design and build new tools for video editing that give users the same kind of “magic” that they’ve become used to for audio editing in Descript.
  - Reduce the latency of multi-user collaboration to meet the standard set by other web-based collaborative tools.
  - Make Descript a web-first app by migrating systems that rely on native/Desktop integrations.
  - Improve the app’s performance during editing to make Descript’s performance indistinguishable from native competitors.
  - Architect a scalable backend infrastructure to quickly upload, process, and store large media files
  - Build & maintain standards for interoperability among Descript & 3rd party tools.
• What You’ll Do
  - Lead initiatives that impact the larger Engineering org and company, as well as own building and shipping new features across all levels of the stack (frontend and backend)
  - Take shared ownership of the product process, and collaborate with product and design teams on crafting great user experiences
  - Write high-quality testable code that's functional, long-term maintainable, and performant
  - Provide mentorship, including to your more senior counterparts in your particular areas of expertise
  - Contribute to high-level architectural decisions, and help to design scalable and efficient systems
• What You Bring
  - 7+ years of professional software development experience
  - Experience in leading large scale projects involving complex architecture and scalable solutions
  - Proficiency in modern technologies such as Typescript/Javascript/React/node.js/Go/Python
  - Strong CS fundamentals and experience with web technologies (HTML/JS/CSS) and REST APIs
  - Strong written and verbal communication
  - Customer obsession - You care about providing a good user experience and ensure you fully understand user needs before diving into engineering solutions
  - Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term needs with investing in long term foundation
  - Self aware of strengths, and seeking to constantly learn and improve
• Nice to Have
  - Experience building creative tools
  - Experience building and optimizing single-page web applications

Staff Software Engineer - Fullstack

Frontend Engineer

• Our vision is to build the next generation platform to enable easy and fast creation of audio and video content powered by cutting-edge AI.
• Building a revolutionary way to record, transcribe, edit and mix spoken audio and video comes with a series of unique challenges and requires solving hard and complex problems.
• We’re looking for a frontend software engineer to help us refine and expand our next-generation web-based, collaborative audio and video editing tool.
• Frontend engineers at Descript work on wide-ranging projects, from the nitty-gritty details of editing interactions, to the critical features of a modern cloud product, to the systems that power real-time collaboration and media playback, to cutting-edge AI integrations.
• As Descript is a unique product, engineers will often need to find creative solutions to problems in collaboration with product and design.

Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

Product Designer

• 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.

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