Staff Product Manager

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 a document. In the future, maybe you won’t even need that! But building a new way to record or generate, transcribe, edit and mix spoken audio and video comes with a series of unique design, technology, and business challenges. In other words, we need really good product managers.

As a Staff Product Manager, you’ll be responsible for defining the strategy, building the roadmap and shipping features for one of our product teams. We’re a small, flat team. You’ll work closely with a team of world-class PMs, engineers, designers, researchers and product marketers who are all driven to do the best work of their careers.

What you’ll do

• Develop a deep understanding of our customers, market, and product opportunities
• Drive company-wide strategic initiatives that have meaningful business impact
• Be a highly visible, highly influential strategic leader at the company
• Own and drive the feature roadmap for your team, from idea generation through to execution and analysis
• Collaborate with design, engineering and marketing to ship product features that delight our users and deliver meaningful impact on Descript’s business

Who you are

• You have seen (and shipped) some things: You have 7 or more years of product management experience, preferably with a product of technical complexity with high design craft. You can direct your own to do list. You make a ton of progress between check-ins. You won’t be blocked.
• 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 demonstrated 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 and unsolved problems and can sculpt that ambiguity into strategy and magic.
• 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.

The base salary range for this role is $170,000- $250,000/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, and location, and they may vary from the amount above.