engineering
Posted Apr 1Engineering Manager, Agent
at Descript
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
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 Research 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 What You Bring Minimum
Requirements
- Descript is revolutionizing how traditional editing methodologies and AI technologies come together in every part of the creation process (recording, transcribing, editing, and sharing) to make it faster and easier than ever to create high quality content.
- You will manage a team of 5-6 software engineers, report to the Head of AI Engineering, and partner closely with others across engineering, product, design, and AI research teams.
- Descript's Agent launched in Open Beta in July 2025. Since then, we've been working on improving the user
- experience for chat-based editing, adding more capabilities into our agent, and improving our agent infrastructure to continue to scale as models get better and better.
- The Agent product engineering team partners very closely with our AI Research team, in order to achieve our mission to make video editing accessible to anyone.
- experience for agentic video editing interactions (eg. tuning prompt templates and other key user workflows, addressing user feedback, building key product capabilities like chat history, etc)
- Partnering with AI Research on roadmap for exploratory Agent improvements (eg. novel context management strategies, RL/new model development, multimodel explorations, etc) What you'll do: