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Product Designer

Descript โ€ข San Francisco, United States of America ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

Hybrid $190,000 - $230,000 Full-time

Drive design decisions and collaborate with stakeholders to shape innovative video editing experiences. Own the design process from concept through to execution while integrating user, business, and technical constraints.

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 through 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.

Requirements

  • 4+ years as a designer, the majority of it spent in product.
  • A portfolio demonstrating your ability to create net new features from scratch as well as your systems thinking.
  • Exceptional interaction and visual design skillsโ€”the ability to create delight without sacrificing usability.
  • Understanding of AI/ML and some experience designing for it.
  • Experience designing web, mobile or desktop applications with 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.
  • Contribute actively in team critโ€”know how to give and receive feedback well.
  • At least 2 of the following stand-out skills: Past work building and/or working on a creation tool, experience building or working on a mature design system, expertise in accessibility, comfort with designer-led user research, an interest in Vibe coding, finding new tools and processes (including AI) to improve the design process, UI animation skills.

Key Skills

  • Figma
  • Interaction and visual design skills
  • AI/ML design experience
  • Web, mobile or desktop application design
  • Systems thinking
  • Clear communication
  • Self-direction
  • Team crit participation
  • Creation tool experience
  • Mature design system experience
  • Accessibility expertise
  • Designer-led user research
  • Vibe coding interest
  • Tool and process improvement
  • UI animation skills

Benefits

  • Generous healthcare package.
  • Catered lunches.
  • Flexible vacation time.

About Descript

Descript is a new kind of video editor thatโ€™s as easy as a doc. Descriptโ€™s AI-powered features and intuitive interface fuel YouTube and TikTok channels, top podcasts, and businesses using video for marketing, sales, and internal training and collaboration. Descript aims to make video a staple of every communicatorโ€™s toolkit, alongside docs and slides.

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