Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Descript is revolutionizing how traditional editing methodologies and AI technologies come together in every part of the creation process. They are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead their Narrative Editing team, focusing on product experiences that enable creators to tell their story through AI content creation and script-based editing.
Responsibilities
- Own execution: Manage team prioritizes, drive alignment across stakeholders, adapt plans to maximize outcomes, and hold a high bar for delivery through active planning, prioritization, and follow-through
- Define team direction: Connect customer needs, product vision, and technical realities in close collaboration with Product, Design, and AI engineering by setting clear priorities and making tradeoffs to deliver results
- Develop your team: Recruit, mentor, and grow engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and high performance. Create stretch opportunities for ICs, deliver clear and direct feedback, and manage underperformance early
- Drive operational excellence: Ensure execution is predictable, reliable, and sustainable, implementing best practices in project management and engineering processes
- Maintain the technical bar: Guide architectural decisions, ensure sound design tradeoffs, address tech debt that slows execution, and drive delivery of high-quality, reliable systems
Skills
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years of engineering management experience delivering complex, cross-functional product work with high velocity and quality
- Excels at hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineering talent, and creating collaborative, empowering, and high-performing team environments
- Ability to think deeply about our customers and bring strongly informed opinions that contribute to great product experiences
- Strong technical background with the ability to guide architectural decisions, evaluate tradeoffs, and maintain engineering excellence without being hands-on day-to-day
- Communicates clearly and effectively across technical and non-technical audiences, and thrives in collaborative environments working closely with Product, Design, and Research partners
- Able to convert business objectives into technical metrics that accurately reflect progress towards those objectives and help guide prioritization
- Thrives in fast-paced, high-ownership environments. Seeks opportunities to have impact and values the growth that comes with every new challenge
- Actively adapts to the changing landscape of tools and how they can be integrated into the operations of teams to make them more effective. AI is also woven throughout the Descript product, and an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the tools and how to evaluate them is essential to driving the success of our product experiences
- Experience building creative tools in the past or you're a frequent user of creative media tools. If you join Descript, you'll end up making lots of videos!
- Experience defining strategic technical quality metrics and driving success to those metrics
Benefits
- A generous healthcare package
- 401k matching program
- Catered lunches
- Flexible vacation time
- A handful of opportunities throughout the year for in person collaboration
- For our hybrid roles, we're flexible, and you're an adult—we don't expect or mandate that you're in the office every day
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