Lead Editor Product Manager

Role overview

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. 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 reliabl