Product Manager, AI Research

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.

We're looking for a Product Manager to help build the future of video editing with AI. You'll work alongside a small, flat, highly collaborative team of experienced PMs, AI researchers, engineers, designers, and marketers. This is an opportunity to get hands-on experience with cutting-edge AI technology in a product users love and grow fast in your PM craft.

We're looking for a Product Manager to lead the AI Research and Enablement roadmap at Descript. This role sits at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research, production ML infrastructure, and product strategy. You'll be responsible for ensuring our AI capabilities are best-in-class while enabling our product teams to ship AI-powered features that delight users.

Teams You'll Partner with

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AI Research

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The AI Research team leverages, trains, and validates powerful models for our product use cases across two core areas:

• Audio/Video Research: Models for understanding, augmenting, and generating audio/video content (transcription, lipsync, video regenerate, TTS, avatars, etc.).
• LLM Research: Evaluating and optimizing LLMs for Descript products, co-designing agent architecture, experimenting with token optimizations and fine-tuning.

AI Enablement

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The AI Enablement team supports integrating 1P and 3P models into the Descript product

* Building and maintaining standardized 3P model integrations (LLM providers,...