Senior Commercial Counsel, Synthesia
$150-240k
+ Stock Options
1-5 days a week in office
AI video creation platform
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AI video creation platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-240k
+ Stock Options
1-5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to make video content - without cameras, microphones or studios.
Role
Who you are
- Completion of a law degree from an accredited institution, and qualified to practice law as an in-house attorney
- 6+ years of post-qualification experience working on different kinds of commercial transactions (e.g., strategic alliance, SaaS, IP licensing, software licensing, product resale, and distribution, working with contractors, outsourcing, facilities, etc.), including with large enterprise companies, companies in regulated industries (e.g., financial services, healthcare, etc.), government, and edu companies
- Experience working in an in-house legal department, ideally in the tech sector
- Comfortable negotiating data processing agreements, including a working knowledge of GDPR and CCPA as they relate to commercial contracts
- Clean and concise drafting of documents, policies, Slack messages, emails, and other communications in a manner that is digestible for non-lawyers
- Understanding of cloud services, technology, and professional services contracts
- Knowledge of non-legal business processes gained in-house relating to sales operations and revenue recognition
- Experience managing workload on tight timelines with multiple competing demands
- Extra points if you have an understanding on the use of training data for building AI models
What the job involves
- As a Commercial Counsel at Synthesia, you will work closely with our Sales, Marketing, Finance, Business Operations, and Go-To-Market organizations. Our team is a network of knowledgeable and supportive professionals who work as a unit, bringing bold ideas to the table and providing collaborative problem-solving
- This role will report to the Head of Commercial Legal, and be responsible for various legal-related matters and projects involved with supporting the teams that sell and build our products
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of commercial agreements to support sales, partnerships, and our purchase of software and services from vendors. Your primary focus will be on our service agreements, software licenses, data processing agreements, and NDAs
- We’ll ask you to draw from the experience you’ve gained from supporting hundreds or thousands of commercial transactions to help define business terms and structure deals in an optimal way
- Advising on a variety of areas ranging from intellectual property, data privacy, data security, software licensing agreements, and go-to-market strategy
- Providing input on processes, policies, and playbooks to help scale the organization and make our team more effective and efficient
- Providing effective advice by staying up-to-date on relevant industry, commercial, open source, IP, privacy, employment, and other laws, regulations, and developments
- Developing the company’s knowledge in areas of special interest, including intellectual property, data protection, financial services, healthcare, and other regulatory matters
- Operating independently and providing practical, decisive guidance to our business teams that balances business objectives with legal risk, taking into account our company policies and negotiation positions
Our take
Video is an integral part of companies’ marketing strategies, and the adoption of synthetic media has grown in popularity. As organisations are investing in videos, startups are building platforms to support the process. Synthesia is an AI-powered video generation platform that saves enterprises up to 100x the cost and time of producing a video.
The company leverages deep learning to simulate real videos and real actors without the need for costly infrastructure like camera crews, actors, cameras, studios, and a lengthy post-production process. Synthesia’s first product STUDIO launched in public beta in the summer of 2020 and it is now used by 30,000+ companies, including the BBC, Teleperformance, Amazon, and Reuters.
Notably, Prof. Matthias Niessner, one of the co-founders of the company, is behind some of the most well-recognised research projects in the field Deep Video Portraits and Face2Face. The company's intuitive interface has grown to become the #1 rated video creation platform, proving its strong ability to capitalise on the growing AI in media market – which is estimated to be worth $99.48 Billion by 2030.
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Opportunities to learn
"Ownership is key to how everyone works at Synthesia. Over the past 18 months since joining, I have been given ownership of a vast array of exciting..."
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2025
$180m
SERIES D
Jun 2023
$90m
SERIES C
Total funding: $336.6m
Company benefits
- đź“ŤYou will work in a hybrid setting with offices London, New York, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Munich & Zurich!
- đź’¸ Stock options in our fast-growing Series C start-up
- 🌴 25 days of annual leave + public holidays in the country where you are based
- 🎉 Fun culture with regular socials and company retreats (Portugal, Copenhagen & Barcelona!)
- 🍫 Office snacks and regular tasty lunches!
- 🤑 Generous referral scheme
- 🚀 A huge opportunity for career growth as you’ll help shape a market-defining product
- 🏥 Private Medical Insurance (Medical History Disregarded basis) including mental health support, dental & vision, cashback and gym discounts.
- 🍼 Paid parental leave entitling primary caregivers to 16 weeks of full pay, and secondary 5 weeks of full pay.
Company values
- Outcomes over Inputs & Plans: We value outcomes and iterations, not inputs
- Be an Owner: Acting like an owner is encouraged: Ask questions, challenge decisions and show leadership
- Make the Journey Fun: We strive for an informal, low hierarchy culture where we can all be our true selves.
- Default to Simple:Â Simple is better - until it's not. But in most cases we can stick to very simple solutions
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
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Leadership
Victor Riparbelli
(CEO)Experience working on growth and product at Aller Media and Founders. Co-founded Immersive Futures in 2016 and Coincall in 2017.
Steffen Tjerrild
(Co-Founder & COO & CFO)Former Investment Manager at Kukula Capital and Business Developer at Founders.
Matthias Niessner
(Co-Founder)Computer science professor at the Technical University Munich.
Lourdes Agapito
(Co-Founder)Professor of 3D Computer Vision at University College London.
People progressing
Joined Synthesia in June 2022 as a Customer Support Associate, promoted to a different department as a Customer Onboarding Manager in January 2024.
Joined Synthesia in April 2022 as an SDR. Promoted in January 2023 to a Senior SDR, and promoted again in January 2024 to a Strategic SDR lead for EMEA.
Joined Synthesia in April 2023, promoted to a different department as a Customer Success Manager in May 2024.
Joined Synthesia in October 2021 as a Customer Success Manager, promoted to a different department as an Account Executive in October 2022.
Joined Synthesia in December 2021 as a Customer Success Manager, promoted to a Senior Customer Success Manager in December 2022.
Joined Synthesia in December 2020 as a Full Stack Engineer, promoted to an Engineering Lead in December 2022.
Joined Synthesia in January 2018 as a Research Engineer, promoted to a Senior Research Engineer in March 2021.
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