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Descript

Lead Editor Product Manager

San Francisco, CA · On-site +1

$225K - $290K/yr

About the role Descript's script-based editing features are at the heart of why creators trust us for their highest-stakes content. Product launches. Client interviews. Marketing campaigns. Content ...

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As of Sep 14, 2026, the average yearly pay for remote technical editor in California is $70,849.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $53,800.00 and $83,900.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

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Lead Editor Product Manager

San Francisco, CA • On-site, Remote

Descript
Software Development • 11 - 50 employees
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$225K - $290K/yr

Full-time

Posted 2 days ago

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About the role

Descript's script-based editing features are at the heart of why creators trust us for their highest-stakes content. Product launches. Client interviews. Marketing campaigns. Content that represents them to their audiences.

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.

What you'll do
  • 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
Who you are
  • You've built deceptively powerful tools: You have 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. You are a systems-minded product thinker who excels at designing intuitive experiences for complex, end-to-end workflows.
  • 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 editor and its design that do not have real competitors yet. The product intuition and design conventions have not been decided. You 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 you sweat 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 $225,000 - $290,000. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, level, and may vary from the amount above.

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