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 data scientist and the owner for growth & marketing analytics, you will play a critical role in shaping our marketing strategy and the data science function.

What You’ll Do

• Be in the driver seat to define marketing strategy and roadmap with leadership for paid, owned (website, lifecycle) and earned (SEO) channels.
• Define critical KPIs and ensure a high standard for instrumentation and measurement.
• Constantly improve marketing measurement, iterating on attribution models, and designing and analyzing experiments using proper statistical techniques to measure channel incrementality.
• Proactively identify trends, patterns, and opportunities through data to improve day-to-day operations and drive user acquisition, activation, and retention.
• Create models to score leads based on their likelihood to convert, helping sales and marketing teams prioritize high-value prospects.

What You Bring

• A strategic thought partner that brings ideas and solutions to the table.
• A simplifier who’s able to communicate with executive team effectively.
• Extreme ownership and resourcefulness to get things done.
• Deep understanding of ads platforms (Meta, Google, Microsoft), data enrichment, and reverse ETL process through a CDP such as Segment or RudderStack.
• Strong working knowledge of randomized controlled experiments and quasi-experiments.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g. computer science, mathematics, statistics, etc).
• 5+ years of experience in a data scientist or related role.
• Proficient in SQL and at least one programming language such as Python or R.

At our current size and stage, we embrace a flat organizational structure and value the expertise and contributions of every team member. As such, we have a unified job title for our engineering roles where everyone, including those with Staff-level scope, is considered a Data Scientist. While titles may not change, we are actively seeking a senior and above Data Scientist to join our team.

The base salary range for this role is $138,000- $190,000/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 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.