At Descript, we’re on a mission to put video in every communicator’s toolkit—and we’re looking for an innovative Instructional Design and Operations Manager to join our team. If you're passionate about crafting onboarding and continuous learning programs for customers, we want to talk.
We are looking for someone to build customer education programs, define and align learning agendas across channels, and up-level the quality and impact of our educational content. Ideal candidates have instructional design expertise; a well-developed eye for content quality; a zest for program management; and a proven ability to lead through influence. We are seeking someone who has direct experience making instructional video.
What You’ll Do:
- Execute and direct educational content development: Partner with teammates to create high-quality written, video, and event-based education content. Sometimes you’ll have your hand on the pen. Sometimes you’ll help teammates make great stuff. Together, with Content, Community, and PMM collaborators, you’ll create engaging content that helps customers get more out of Descript.
- Build always-on education programs, and the operational habits to support them: Create integrated, cross-channel programs that coordinate and maximize the impact of our content. Look across the program to ensure we’re supporting diverse learning styles and preferences. Define and maintain operations that maximize throughput and scale—so that we make more stuff. Define and maintain operations that maximize durability and maintenance— so the stuff we make stays up-to-date.
- Represent education as a discipline: Maintain a continuously-evolving understanding of how education programs can drive growth, satisfaction, and retention at Descript. Capture and quantify the business impact of education programs. Cultivate a vision for how our education strategy should evolve over time.
- Define education needs through qual and quant insight: Work with collaborators in DS, User Research, and Support to identify topics to address with education programs. Incorporate data-driven insights and market feedback to continuously refine education content to increase engagement and drive successful learning outcomes.
- Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with Growth, Lifecycle marketing, Content, and Community teams to align educational strategies with broader company goals.
What We’re Looking For:
- Proven expertise: 10+ years of experience in instructional design, educational content development, or customer enablement, preferably with experience in both B2B and B2C products.
- Leadership experience: 3+ years of management experience, with a thoughtful approach to helping team members make their best work.
- Creative visionary: A demonstrated ability to develop unique and impactful content that engages learners and drives their success.
- Collaboration mindset: Enthusiastic about working with cross-functional teams to bring educational visions to life.
- Customer-focused: Deep understanding of customer journeys, with experience using qual and quant insight to inform content strategies.
The base salary range for this role is $145,000-155,000. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, and location, and they may vary from the amount above.
Descript is building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio — an editing tool built for the age of AI. We are a team of 150 — with a proven CEO and the backing of some of the world's greatest investors (OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital).
Descript is the special company that's in possession of both product market fit and the raw materials (passionate user community, great product, large market) for growth, but is still early enough that each new employee has a measurable influence on the direction of the company.
Benefits include a generous healthcare package, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. Our headquarters are located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. We're looking to hire people who are local and able to join us at the office when needed. We're flexible, and you're an adult—we don't expect or mandate that you're in the office every day. But we do believe there are valuable and serendipitous moments of discovery and collaboration that come from working together in person.
Descript is an equal opportunity workplace—we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We believe in actively building a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to better allow our employees, products, and community to thrive.
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What We Do
Descript builds simple and powerful collaborative tools for new media creators. We strive to eliminate the tedious work that often stands between an idea and its expression, so that creators can focus on developing their craft instead of their usage of tools.
Descript is a next generation digital media platform that offers a new "engine" that lets you edit audio by editing text (instead of waveforms).
That means it does transcription (both automated and human-powered, whichever you prefer), but more interestingly, it lets you move the audio around by simply editing the transcript.
If you're new to editing audio, you'll find it far easier - it's basically like using a word processor. If you're experienced, Descript is faster than waveform editing - and more fun.
If you work with voice audio (as opposed to music), Descript is what the future looks like...join us and change the world.
