Job Summary:
Descript is revolutionizing how traditional editing methodologies and AI technologies come together in every part of the creation process. The Senior Frontend Engineer will own the marketing website, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user experience and drive self-serve signups.
Responsibilities:
• Set the technical direction for the CMS and component system — clear architectural boundaries, consistent guardrails, and a foundation that lets marketing and design move fast without fragility
• Enhance and maintain a release and QA discipline: rollback processes, staging environments, and deployment confidence
• Own Core Web Vitals and page speed performance as a first-class concern — and help connect them to measurable conversion rate impact
• Own analytics instrumentation an event taxonomy governance — the technical source of truth for what's happening across the funnel
• Build reusable components and page patterns that make new landing pages and campaigns quick to stand up without one-off engineering lifts
• Maintain and extend A/B testing setup so Marketing team can run clean experiments on those pages at velocity
• Partner with Brand, Design, and Marketing to translate campaigns, landing pages, and brand work into production web code — fast, pixel-faithful, and performant
• Own the technical quality of what ships: accessibility, Core Web Vitals, SEO fundamentals (schema, rendering, structured data), and cross-browser/device behavior
• Be the engineering partner Marketing, Growth, and GTM teams rely on to move fast without breaking the pipeline
• Enable self-serve content workflows through CMS so creative teams can publish without engineering bottlenecks
• Collaborate with GTM and Rev Ops to maintain guardrails on form and routing decisions that affect lead flow reliability
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a meaningful amount of it focused on web frontend or marketing engineering
• Experience working with a headless CMS or visual editor (Contentful, Builder.io, Webflow, or similar)
• Solid foundation in HTML and CSS — you understand the DOM, can debug layout issues without a framework crutch, and take accessibility (a11y) seriously
• Strong command of TypeScript/JavaScript and React — you write clean, maintainable code and you care about the difference
• Hands-on experience with Next.js — you understand SSR, SSG, ISR, and when to use which
• Deep familiarity with web performance: Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse, lazy loading, bundle optimization
• Comfort with full-stack work: REST APIs, serverless functions, data pipelines, and integrations with third-party services
• Systems thinker who can hold the big picture (platform strategy, cross-functional dependencies) and the details (a broken event tag, a slow LCP) at the same time
• Strong communicator: you can translate technical constraints into plain language for marketing and GTM stakeholders, and you know when to push back
Preferred:
• Prior work at a B2B SaaS or PLG company where the website directly supported both self-serve and sales-led motions
• Experience with experimentation platforms (LaunchDarkly, Eppo, or custom frameworks)
• Familiarity with marketing analytics and GTM tooling (Amplitude, Segment, Google Tag Manager, Salesforce integrations)
• Background in technical SEO — schema markup, crawl optimization, rendering strategy
• Experience with lead enrichment and inbound routing platforms (Default, Clearbit, RB2B, or similar)
Company:
Descript is a collaborative audio and video editor that transcribes audio to a text document for editing, training, and collaboration. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.