Product Designer, Growth & Monetization

Descript•San Francisco, CA

22h•$150,000 - $215,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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. 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.

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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