Lead Editor Product Manager

Descript•San Francisco, CA

8d•$225,000 - $280,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As Lead Product Manager of the Narrative Editing team, you'll own how users capture, edit, and perfect their stories. You'll shape the script-first editing that makes video as simple as a document, the recording and writing tools that let users create without leaving Descript, and the AI regeneration features that make edits feel seamless and natural. This is an opportunity to shape features that professional creators depend on while working with cutting-edge AI, a product users love, and a small, collaborative team where your impact is immediate and visible.

Requirements

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.
Systems-minded product thinker who excels at designing intuitive experiences for complex, end-to-end workflows.
Experience in doing customer discovery and defining features that solve real problems.
Attracted to ambiguous problems, know how to ask smart questions, and translate ideas into action.
Sweat the details.

Nice To Haves

Funny, creative, maybe kind of weird.

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