As a Senior Product Designer, you will help build end-to-end experiences for our users — from improvement to our project browser, our accounts admin, to upcoming editor features. You’ll collaborate closely with user research, product management and engineering to design and ship experiences that make it easy for anyone to create and edit video.
Our product is an intricate web of interconnected features, which means design at Descript is mostly about systems design. Designers who do well here are ones are the ones who love mind-melting puzzles, where you have to figure out how to keep all the interconnected parts straight in your head, and build something that has structural integrity while elegantly serving the needs of users. Join us to help build the future of creative tools.
What You’ll Do
- Play a key role in a feature team, driving design decisions and collaborating with stakeholders and fellow designers to shape innovative video editing experiences.
- Bring clarity and insight to broad, ambiguous problems by integrating user, business, and technical constraints through structured thinking and concise communication.
- Contribute to and expand our design system, helping refine its definition and evolution.
- Own the design process from concept to execution, iterating based on feedback and user research.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with PMs, user research, and fellow product designers—elevating your own work while supporting others as a thought partner.
- Design superb user experiences, with an insane attention to detail—you sweat the small stuff because you know it makes all the difference.
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of experience as a product designer, owning the full design process end-to-end—most ideally within complex tools built for creative professionals (e.g., video, audio, or design software).
- Experience designing web, mobile, or desktop applications with sophisticated user workflows and systems design challenges.
- Thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments, navigating ambiguity with confidence and adaptability.
- Clear, direct communicator who collaborates effectively with engineers, designers, and executives.
- Highly organized and accountable, taking commitments seriously.
- Comfortable leading through ambiguity, guiding the design process for a cross-functional team.
- A portfolio that showcases strong systems design, conceptual thinking, and a real passion for your craft.
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience in design.
The base salary range for this role is $175,000-$220,000. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, and location, and they may vary from the amount above.
Descript is building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio — an editing tool built for the age of AI. We are a team of 150 — with a proven CEO and the backing of some of the world's greatest investors (OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital).
Descript is the special company that's in possession of both product market fit and the raw materials (passionate user community, great product, large market) for growth, but is still early enough that each new employee has a measurable influence on the direction of the company.
Benefits include a generous healthcare package, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. Our headquarters are located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. We're looking to hire people who are local and able to join us at the office when needed. We're flexible, and you're an adult—we don't expect or mandate that you're in the office every day. But we do believe there are valuable and serendipitous moments of discovery and collaboration that come from working together in person.
Descript is an equal opportunity workplace—we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We believe in actively building a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to better allow our employees, products, and community to thrive.
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Descript San Francisco, California, USA Office
385 Grove St, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94118
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