Engineering Manager, Agent at Descript

Descript seeks a manager for their Agent team to lead development of Underlord, an agentic video editor. The role involves overseeing 5-6 engineers reporting to the Head of AI Engineering.

Key Responsibilities

Execute on team priorities and stakeholder alignment

Direct team strategy connecting customer needs with technical capabilities

Recruit, mentor, and develop engineering talent

Ensure operational reliability and sustainable execution

Guide architectural decisions and maintain engineering standards

Build a best-in-class product experience for agentic video editing interactions

Tune prompt templates and chat-based editing workflows

Data-driven experimentation to push the limits on quality for the video editing agent

Model routing, tool design, and token optimization

Strengthen evaluation methodologies and product analysis

Collaborate with AI Research on context management and multimodal exploration

Required Qualifications

5+ years software engineering experience

2+ years management experience

Strong technical judgment and architectural guidance capability

Cross-functional collaboration (Product, Design, AI Research)

Strategic planning with 12+ month horizon

Preferred: Agent development experience, LLM product leadership, creative tool familiarity

Salary: $222,431 - $261,684 USD

Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote