Product Designer

Summary

Join Descript as a Product Designer to shape the future of its core experience and growing design culture. You will own the end-to-end design of new features and the evolution of existing ones in the editor, collaborating with various teams. The role involves systems design, requiring a love for complexity and collaborative navigation. You will contribute to the design system and mentor junior designers. Descript offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• 6+ years as a designer, the majority of it spent in product
• You have a portfolio demonstrating strong systems design and conceptual thinking
• Commitment to your craft and an exceptional command of color, typography, space, motion, and usability
• Experience designing web, mobile or desktop applications with sophisticated user workflows and systems design challenges
• Experience on a fast-growing team and ability to work through ambiguity and create clarity
• Clear, direct communication
• Self-direction, you own your own work and deliver on your commitments
• Tactics for leading the design process cross-functionally
• Great feedback skills—know how to give feedback that elevates others’ work inside and outside design and how to get feedback that elevates your own

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in a feature team, driving design decisions and collaborating with stakeholders and fellow designers to shape innovative video editing experiences
• Set a high bar for craft, eye for detail, and deep empathy for users
• Own the design process from concept to execution
• Bring clarity to problems that are broad and ambiguous in scope, integrating user, business, and technical constraints through structured thinking and effective communication
• Contribute to the definition and expansion of our design system
• Collaborate deeply with diverse stakeholders (product management, engineers, designers, executives)
• Advocate for what you think is right, know when to disagree and commit
• Excited by the opportunity to mentor more junior designers on the team

Preferred Qualifications

• Past work building and/or working on a creation tool (e.g., word processor, design tool, audio or video editing tool)
• Experience building or working on a mature design system
• Experience with enterprise products and collaborative features
• Expertise in accessibility
• Comfort with designer-led user research
• An interest in Vibe coding (or, hey, code coding) for prototyping
• UI animation skills
• Strong understanding of AI/ML, and point of view on how to integrate it into existing experiences

Benefits

• A generous healthcare package
• Catered lunches
• Flexible vacation time