# Engineering Manager, Agent

**Company:** [Descript](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/descript)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $222k – $262k/yr
**Skills:** LLMs, AI Agents, Prompt Engineering, Evals, Agent Infrastructure, Rl, Multimodal Ai, Video Editing Tools
**Posted:** 2026-04-01

> Leads a team of 5-6 engineers building an agentic video editor, driving quality improvements, experimentation, and roadmap in collaboration with product, design, and AI research. Requires 5+ years engineering with 2+ years management experience in fast-paced AI environments.

## Job Description

## What you'll do

- Own execution: Manage team prioritizes, drive alignment across stakeholders, adapt plans to maximize outcomes, and hold a high bar for delivery through active planning, prioritization, and follow-through
- Define team direction: Connect customer needs, product vision, and technical realities in close collaboration with Product, Design, and AI Research by setting clear priorities and making tradeoffs to deliver results
- Develop your team: Recruit, mentor, and grow engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and high performance. Create stretch opportunities for ICs, deliver clear and direct feedback, and manage underperformance early
- Drive operational excellence: Ensure execution is predictable, reliable, and sustainable, implementing best practices in project management and engineering processes
- Maintain the technical bar: Guide architectural decisions, ensure sound design tradeoffs, address tech debt that slows execution, and drive delivery of high-quality, reliable systems

## What You Bring

### Minimum Qualifications

**Engineering Leadership Experience:** 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years of engineering management experience delivering complex, cross-functional product work with high velocity and quality

**Team Builder:** Excels at hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineering talent, and creating collaborative, empowering, and high-performing team environments

**Technical Judgment:** Strong technical background with the ability to guide architectural decisions, evaluate tradeoffs, and maintain engineering excellence without being hands-on day-to-day

**Effective Communicator:** Communicates clearly and effectively across technical and non-technical audiences, and thrives in collaborative environments working closely with Product, Design, and Research partners

**Strategic Thinker:** Plans ahead on a 12+ month horizon, but prioritizes and re-prioritizes aggressively as new information emerges. Makes and communicates calculated bets.

**Adaptable and Resilient:** Thrives in fast-paced, rapidly changing environments, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and drive results. AI moves very quickly and keeping pace with the market means you are already behind. High ownership and a bias toward action is a must.

### Extra Credit!

- Experience building agents, developing evals, or leading teams building LLM-powered products
- Experience building creative tools in the past or you're a frequent user of creative media tools. If you join Descript, you'll end up making lots of videos!

**Compensation:** The base salary range for this role is $222,431-$261,684/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, level, and may vary from the amount above.

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