Product Designer

### Who you are
- You’re a pro at using data to create and iterate on user experiences that marry user needs and measurable business impact
- 5+ years as a designer, the majority of it spent in product
- A portfolio demonstrating your ability to handle complexity and create compelling, data-informed user experiences that convert
- Data fluency and past success working on growth experiments
- Exceptional interaction and visual design skills
- Experience on a fast-growing team
- Ability to work through ambiguity and create clarity, quickly
- Clear, direct communication
- Self-direction, you own your own work and deliver on your commitments
- Crit skills—know how to give and receive feedback well
- AI literacy—you don’t have to be AI-pilled, but it’s a growing part of how we work here
- At least 2 of the following stand-out skills:
- 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
- Expertise in accessibility
- Comfort with designer-led user research
- An interest in Vibe coding (or, hey, code coding) for prototyping
- Finding new tools and processes to improve the design process
- UI animation skills
- Experience designing for AI/ML-powered projects

### What the job involves
- As a Product Designer, you’ll help our users understand the value of Descript and find early success using it on our Growth team
- Designers who do well here aren’t afraid of ambiguity and have a knack for navigating it collaboratively. Join us to help build the future of creative tools
- Play a vital role on our growth team, driving design decisions and shaping strategy
- Take an experimental approach to solving problems that matter to our users and business
- Use data to optimize user experiences for impact
- Balance the need for speed with a high bar for craft, eye for detail, and deep empathy for users
- Own your design process from concept through to execution
- Bring clarity to problems that are broad and ambiguous in scope through structured thinking and effective communication
- Collaborate deeply with diverse stakeholders (product management, engineers, designers, executives)
- Advocate for what you think is right, know when to disagree and commit
- Contribute to the definition and expansion of our design system and culture

### Benefits
- Health: We’ve got you covered with medical, dental, and vision benefits for all employees and their dependents. These include HMO and PPO healthcare plans
- Time off: Paid holidays are a given, but you can also expect flexible time off. Feel comfortable to take the time you need, when you need it.
- Parental leave: New parents receive paid parental leave to spend quality time with their expanding families.
- Home-office stipend: Get your work-from-home setup ready with our home-office stipend.
- Retirement: We offer a variety of retirement plans, including employer matching.
- Free food & refreshments: Come say hey! Visit our office for free lunch, snacks, and drinks.
- Destination off-sites: No matter where you work, you’ll get to know your team. We host two annual gatherings: a company-wide off-site and a team-specific off-site.