Director, Narrative Editing & AI Tools

Ali Aydi; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 225,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare package

401k matching

Catered lunches

Flexible vacation time

Job summary

Descript is seeking a Lead Product Manager for the Narrative Editing team in San Francisco or remote in the US. You will own how users capture, edit, and perfect their stories, shaping script-first editing and AI regeneration features for professional creators.

You will guide the editor roadmap, craft intuitive end‑to‑end workflows, and collaborate with the AI Research team to push frontier capabilities. This role combines a small, collaborative team with immediate impact, in a flexible work

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience shipping creative tools or workflow products.
• Customer discovery experience and ability to define features that solve real problems.
• Ability to design intuitive experiences for complex, end‑to‑end workflows.
• Comfort in ambiguous problems and translating ideas into action.
• Strong craft and attention to detail with a sense of humor.

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of customers, their creative goals, and guide the editor roadmap.
• Bring Descript's taste for great video into interactions and defaults so creators produce polished work.
• Expand editing capabilities with frontier AI technology by partnering with AI Research, launching features like video regeneration and speaker identification.
• Own the recording, script generation, and translation flows for end‑to‑end video workflows in Descript.
• Ensure Descript scales reliably for larger teams and more complex workflows.

Skills

Product management

Customer discovery

Systems thinking

Ambiguity handling

Attention to craft

Job description

Descript is seeking a Lead Product Manager for the Narrative Editing team in San Francisco or remote in the US. You will own how users capture, edit, and perfect their stories, shaping script-first editing and AI regeneration features for professional creators.

You will guide the editor roadmap, craft intuitive end‑to‑end workflows, and collaborate with the AI Research team to push frontier capabilities. This role combines a small, collaborative team with immediate impact, in a flexible work