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How Descript hires

Truth index
B 70/100
Ghost roles
50%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Descript scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 10 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 50% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 5 · green card filings: 1

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Overview

Features Features Video editing Editing video in Descript is as easy as using docs and slides. Podcasting Multitrack audio editing, just like editing text.

News

News noteノート 27 days ago
What is Descript? An AI tool that lets you edit video and audio as if you were editing textAIGNALAIツール実務検証ラボ
When you want to cut unnecessary remarks from an interview video, it is often easier to read and select text than to search through the video timeline. Descript is a tool that allows you to edit by linking transcribed text with video and audio.This explan
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News Forbes 3 months ago
SIVGA Launches Its New Lyrebird Hybrid In-Ear Monitors
New quad-driver hybrid IEMs combine advanced acoustic engineering with premium materials designed for an immersive and natural listening experience.
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News DescriptApp 5 months ago
12 - Amin Vahdat - Descript
Thank you so much for joining us, Amin. Please give me a round of applause for Amin Vedat.You guys have no idea how hard it was to get Amin to show up. Seriously. This is the one lecture that, um, I
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Podcast descript.com 11 months ago
Underlord Your AI Video & Podcast Editing Assistant Descript
Underlord is Descript's AI editing assistant. Generate clips, write show notes, fix audio, and handle tedious edits automatically so you can publish faster.
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News Faraway, So Close 12 months ago
Descript Needs More Money for AI Generator Slop Machine
No AI tools were used at all in the writing of this blog post. A piece of cinnamon raisin toast with butter and honey and a glass of water were consumed instead.
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News DescriptApp 1 year ago
Electric Clojure in 5 minutes -Systems Distributed 2024 - Descript
Okay. So who has used React.js? Probably in anger for this audience. Okay. What Electric Clojure is, is an experimental programming language approach to user interfaces. We try to solve the front and
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News besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com 1 year ago
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News DescriptApp 1 year ago
flight simulator for tech - Descript
Hi everyone, my name's Sam. The vast majority of the training out there is that it's really instrumental, specific tool based level, and doesn't really go down to the fundamentals.I sat down for din
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News Geeky Gadgets 2 years ago
Descript AI video editor user guide for beginners
Descript is an AI video editor designed to simplify the editing of audio and video by converting them into text for easy manipulation. If you have ever
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Descript over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
29
Postings analysed
13
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL23%
Node JS8%
Python8%
TypeScript8%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch8%
React.js8%
Redux8%
Temporal8%
Cloud & platforms
OpenAI100%
Figma8%
GCP8%
Kubernetes8%
AI & ML
Claude8%
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Full Descript tech stack 29 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$208k
Typical range
$125k – $290k
Open positions
10
8 Jobs
Middle 25%
Senior 25%
Staff 37.5%
Architect 12.5%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 2 $165k $160k – $170k
Senior 2 $208k $200k – $215k
Staff 3 $250k $220k – $290k
Architect 1 $230k $230k
Highest paying role Lead Editor Product Manager $290k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Descript By role, level and city, against the market · 10 jobs with pay

People

Andrew Mason
Executive Officer, Director
Nabeel Hyatt
Director
Alex Rampell
Director
Kundan Kumar
Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data

Growth

Hiring Momentum
53/100
Stable
Open positions
10
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
63 days
faster than 21% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
33% ▲
AI/ML
17% ▼
Product
17% ▲
Marketing
17% ▼
Sales
17% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added YouTube to stack Sep 2026
Added X (Twitter) to stack Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack Sep 2026
Added Instagram to stack Sep 2026
Added Claude to stack Sep 2026
Added Least Privilege to stack Sep 2026
Added Kubernetes to stack Sep 2026
Added IAM to stack Sep 2026
Added GCP to stack Sep 2026
Added CI/CD to stack Sep 2026
Added Go to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco United States
HQ
San Francisco
10 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 50-200 est. staff $206k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Backend, Sales
seen since Dec 2025 careers board, job postings
Montreal Canada
Regional office
Montreal
careers board

Jobs

$220k per year • Hybrid • 8+ years exp • San Francisco
OpenAI
DevOps
GCP
CI/CD
Kubernetes
IAM
Cybersecurity
Least Privilege
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$200k per year • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Go
JavaScript
Rust
TypeScript
SQL
Node JS
Temporal
AI/ML
AI Agents
OpenAI
Edge AI
Frontend
Redux
React.js
Management
Stripe
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$225k – $290k per year • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
OpenAI
Edge AI
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$197k per year • Hybrid • Master's Degree • San Francisco
Fine-tuning
Multimodal AI
Computer Vision
AI Agents
PyTorch
Synthetic Data
OpenAI
Post-training
Machine Learning
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$200k – $250k per year • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
SQL
Spark
OpenAI
Edge AI
Analytics
A/B Testing
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Financials

Total raised
$45M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $30M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2019 $15M Details