Our vision is to build the next generation platform to enable easy and fast creation of audio and video content powered by cutting-edge AI. Building a revolutionary way to record, transcribe, edit, and mix spoken audio and video comes with a series of unique challenges and requires solving hard and complex problems.
As a founding member on the data team, you will build out our data foundation across product and marketing. If you are curious, excited about working cross-functionally, and motivated by having a huge impact on the business, this role could be a good fit for you!
What You’ll Do
- Design, develop, and optimize data models to facilitate in-depth analysis, robust experimentation, and trustworthy reporting for product and marketing
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to build scalable data solutions that make it 10x easier to self serve and to identify business opportunities
- Establish best practices for data documentation, ensuring data integrity and consistency throughout our analytics infrastructure
What You Bring
- 5+ years of experience in Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, or Data Analytics
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, and dbt
- Strong communication skills and the ability to translate business needs into tractable work items
- Extensive experience with prosumer and/or enterprise SaaS products
- Curiosity, savviness to navigate in a dynamic environment, and a growth mindset
The base salary range for this role is $130,000- $188,000/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, and may vary from the amount above.
About Descript
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 headquarter is based in San Francisco, and we currently hire people that are authorized to work anywhere in the US or Canada. Whether you love WFH or can’t wait to get back to being in person, we're interested in offering an environment that works for you. 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.
