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 docs & slides, and increasingly by just asking AI. In the future, maybe you won’t even need to ask! But building a new way to record or generate (or both!) videos that look & sound good comes with a series of unique design, technology, and business challenges. In other words, we need really good product managers.
As a Growth Product Manager, you’ll be responsible for identifying, testing, and scaling the product experiences that drive user acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization. We’re a small, flat team. You’ll work closely with world-class PMs, engineers, designers, researchers, data scientists, and product marketers — all driven to do the best work of their careers while moving the metrics that matter most.
What you’ll do
- Develop a deep understanding of our customers, market, and growth levers across the user lifecycle.
- Lead experiments and initiatives that meaningfully impact acquisition, activation, engagement, and retention.
- Define and own the growth strategy and roadmap for your product area — from opportunity sizing to execution to measuring results.
- Partner with design, engineering, data, and marketing to deliver features and experiments that both delight users and accelerate Descript’s growth.
- Analyze user behavior, funnel performance, and A/B test results to uncover insights and inform next steps.
- Drive company-wide growth initiatives that balance customer value with sustainable business impact.
Who you are
- You have seen (and shipped) some things: You have 7+ years of product management experience, with at least a few in growth-focused roles. You’ve worked on products with technical complexity, high design craft, and measurable growth impact. You can direct your own to-do list and make a ton of progress between check-ins. You won’t be blocked.
- You start with the customer and the data: You care deeply about understanding customers and have a proven track record of turning insights into growth strategies. You’ve led discovery work, defined features, and run experiments that solve real problems and move key metrics.
- You are a fog sculptor: Many of our growth opportunities don’t have obvious playbooks or direct competitors. You thrive in ambiguity, shaping unformed ideas into clear strategies and repeatable wins.
- You care about craft and impact: You balance high-quality product experiences with a relentless focus on measurable outcomes. You know that the most delightful growth loops are the ones that feel effortless to the user.
- You are funny, creative, maybe kind of weird: Ok, this isn’t a hard requirement, but Descript is a quirky place, and the people who thrive here tend to like that. A good sense of humor goes a long way — after all, we’re building creative tools, not launching rockets.
The base salary range for this role is $230,000 - $275,000/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, and location, and may vary from the amount above.
