Product Manager, AI Models

Descript•San Francisco, CA

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

Descript’s vision is to put video in every communicator’s toolkit. Back in the day you needed like six monitors and a bachelor’s degree to edit video. Descript lets you do it by editing docs & slides, and increasingly by just asking AI. In the future, maybe you won’t even need to ask! But building a new way to record or generate (or both!) videos that look & sound good comes with a series of unique design, technology, and business challenges. In other words, we need really good product managers. We’re looking for a Product Manager to help build the future of video editing with AI. You’ll work alongside a small, flat, highly collaborative team of experienced PMs, AI researchers, engineers, designers, and marketers. This is an opportunity to get hands-on experience with cutting-edge AI technology in a product users love and grow fast in your PM craft.

Requirements

You have seen (and shipped) some things: You have 2 or more years of product management experience, ideally with a product of technical complexity that incorporates generative AI models.
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 product and its design that do not have real competitors yet. The product intuition and design conventions have not been decided. We need product managers who 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 sweating 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.

Responsibilities

Develop a deep understanding of our customers, market, and product opportunities
Develop a deep understanding of the landscape of modern AI models and conviction on where Descript should build, buy, partner and contribute to the field
Drive company-wide AI initiatives that have meaningful business & user impact, and become an influential advocate for our AI strategy
Own and drive the roadmap for AI models at Descript, from idea generation through to execution, evaluation and iteration
Collaborate with AI research, engineering, design, and other product teams to ship AI models that delight our users and deliver meaningful impact on Descript’s business