AI Growth Specialist (BDR)
Descript · Remote · US
Open 2 days
New Business + Account Growth: you win new customers and grow existing ones.
- Base
- $60K–$70K
- OTE
- $110K–$120K
- Quota attainment
- Not disclosed
- Posted
- 3d ago
Why it matters: OTE tells you what you could earn. Attainment tells you how realistic it is.
Ask: “What percentage of fully ramped reps hit quota last year?”
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The job
- What you'd do
- Find new buyers at marketing, media, and very big companies by email, phone, and LinkedIn, then book meetings for the Account Executives. You'll find most of your own leads.
- What you'd sell
Lets anyone edit audio and video by editing text
When a podcaster or marketing team has to make a video or episode, there's a lot of fiddly audio and video work to get through. The problem is, cutting and polishing media by hand is slow, and it keeps the finished piece from going out. Descript lets people edit audio and video by editing the text, so getting a finished piece out takes far less effort.
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- Who you'd sell to
- Modern media, marketing, and business teamsIn their words: “building relationships with buyers across modern media, marketing, and enterprise teams”
- Where deals come from
- Mostly you. Expect a lot of outbound: cold calls, emails and LinkedIn.
The Braun Read
Worth a lookSolid on the basics. Use the first call to fill in the gaps.
- Pay
- Base and OTE both listed. Roughly a 55/45 base-to-variable split.
- Transparency
- Says nothing about quota, attainment, deal size, territory or sales cycle. Ask about all five.
- Time on market
- Open 2 days.
- Company hiring
- 2 sales roles open, hiring at a steady pace.
Red lights
None spotted.
Green lights
- Publishes OTE. It tells you the on-target earnings up front. Most postings don't.
Based only on what the posting says. Lights are a starting point for your first call, not a final judgment.
Questions to ask on the first call
Built from what this posting leaves out. How they answer tells you as much as what they say.
- 1.
What percentage of fully ramped reps hit quota last year?
OTE is what you could earn. This is how likely you are to earn it.
- 2.
What percentage of reps on the team have been here more than 18 months?
Tenure shows whether people stay long enough to get paid.
- 3.
Has the comp plan changed in the last 12 to 18 months? What changed?
A plan that changes every year means the goalposts keep moving.
- 4.
Who sits with reps and reviews calls each week?
Coaching is often what's behind a good or bad attainment number.
- 5.
What's the annual quota, and how was it set?
Before You Apply
Find out where you fit, and where you don't, before you hit submit.
Why I built it this way ↓
Most résumé tools try to make you look like a match. I'd rather help you find out if you are one.
Nothing made up.
Nothing goes on your résumé that you didn't do. If a line would need a number you didn't give me, I ask. I don't guess. On Braun Board it's checked in code, not just promised.
Curiosity before conclusions.
If the job wants something your résumé doesn't show, I ask before I assume. Plenty of sellers have done the thing and just never wrote it down.
Sorting, not selling.
Some jobs won't line up with what you've done. Finding that out before you apply isn't a loss. It's an hour back, spent on a job that fits.
No score.
A match score tells you how well you copied their words. It doesn't tell you whether you'd be good at the job, or happy there.
It's the same way I teach selling. We don't control who says yes. We do control where we spend our time, and whether everything we say is true.
Josh
More on this1 Is the job worth it?
Worth a look. Solid on the basics. Use the first call to fill in the gaps.
No red lights. 1 thing the posting doesn't say, worth asking on the first call.
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Full posting
About Descript
Descript makes audio and video creation as simple as editing text. Creators, teams, and enterprises use Descript to record, edit, and collaborate on podcasts, marketing videos, learning content, and more. We’re building tools that remove the friction from multimedia production so anyone can tell their story.
The role
As an early-to-mid level AI Growth Specialist (BDR) at Descript, you’ll be on the front lines of growth: sourcing and qualifying new business opportunities, building relationships with buyers across modern media, marketing, and enterprise teams, and creating pipeline for our Account Executives. You’ll be measured on activity, pipeline, and hand-offs that turn into closed revenue.
This role is highly cross-functional — you’ll work closely with Marketing, Account Executives, Customer Success, and Product to refine messaging, target the right buyers, and iterate on playbooks that scale.
What you’ll do
- Drive outbound prospecting through email, phone, social (LinkedIn), and inbound follow-up to generate qualified meetings for the AE team.
- Execute targeted cadences that combine personalization and scale; own the top of funnel for assigned segments.
- Qualify deals against MEDDPICC , build and maintain a healthy pipeline, and pass consistently high-quality opportunities to AEs.
- Hit weekly / monthly activity and pipeline targets (calls, emails, meetings, SQLs).
- Use CRM and sales engagement tools (Salesforce / Unify / Apollo / LinkedIn Sales Navigator) to track activity and report on funnel metrics.
- Collaborate with Marketing to test and optimize messaging, campaigns, and inbound conversion flows.
- Be the voice of the customer — share insights about buyer pain points, competitive signals, and feature requests to Product and GTM teams.
- Help evolve playbooks and onboarding materials for future SDR hires.
What we’re looking for
- 1–3 years of work experience (SaaS, AI or Investment Banking experience strongly preferred).
- Demonstrated success in outbound prospecting and meeting generation for quota-driven teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills — you can write crisp, human outreach and confidently lead discovery conversations.
- Comfortable with high activity levels and a metrics-driven approach to improvement.
- Experience using a CRM and sales engagement tools; comfortable learning and adopting new tooling and processes.
- Grit, curiosity, and the coachability to iterate quickly on feedback.
- Ability to learn our core systems to find targets within our existing customer database
- Passion for creators, video, audio, or modern content workflows is a big plus.
Nice to have
- Experience selling to marketing, learning & development, product, or media teams.
- Familiarity with audio/video creation workflows or interest in multimedia production.
- Prior experience in a startup or high-growth environment.
- Knowledge of prospecting at enterprise accounts and navigating complex buying groups.
What success looks like (first 3–6 months)
- Consistently hitting activity and meeting targets and contributing a predictable pipeline to the AE team.
- Developing strong, scalable cadences that increase conversion rates from outreach → meeting → SQL.
- Showing strong product knowledge and independently handling discovery calls with high lead quality.
Our hiring process
- Manager / hiring team interview (role fit & experience).
- Live or recorded roleplay / sales exercise.
- Final conversation with leadership or cross-functional partner.
- Offer.
The base salary range for this role is $60k - $70k with a OTE target between $110k - $120k. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, and may vary from the amount above.
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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 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, 401k matching program, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. Our headquarters are located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. We're hiring for a mix of remote roles and hybrid roles. For those who are remote, we have a handful of opportunities throughout the year for in person collaboration. For our hybrid roles, we're flexible, and you're an adult—we don't expect or mandate that you're in the office every day. 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.