Director of Product Design, Synthesia
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AI video creation platform
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AI video creation platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
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More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to make video content - without cameras, microphones or studios.
Role
Who you are
- Experience leading a high performing product design team working on SaaS web apps or B2C products with a high bar for craft and design
- Experience managing and coaching product designers
- Strong product opinions and taste - not shying away from proposing solutions based on your intuition and experience
- Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and translate it into Design goals and values
- Ability to structure the design process and organize a whole team’s work
- Proven track record of leading a team who are creating cohesive and useful design and UI
- Strong attention to details and eye for what makes great design stand-out
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
What the job involves
- We're looking for an outcome-oriented design leader to join us as a Director of Product Design
- You'll lead our high-quality design team and shape a generative AI product with strong PMF
- You’ll set us on a path to become a reference for what world-class enterprise product design looks like
- We’d look to you to build on our strong foundation and raise the bar, setting us on a path to become a reference in terms of Product Design
- Beyond product and design strategy, we’re looking for you to bring a strong view on how a high-impact design team should operate and shape the way we work accordingly
- Lead the Design direction of our product and ensure a cohesive and outstanding visual language and user experience
- Manage and develop the Design team with an eye for ways of working, skills development, tooling and hiring needs
- Work closely with the CPO and other cross functional counterparts on strategy and roadmap
- Anticipate and plan for the Design investments that will be necessary to take the product to new heights
- Ensure product design is a strategic differentiator and that Synthesia is known for a simple, cohesive, and memorable user experience
- Lead a team who are rethinking the paradigm of video creation around the latest advancements in generative AI
- Identify opportunities to bring in more of the brand into our Product Design
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2026
$200m
SERIES E
Apr 2025
$13.2m
LATE VC
Total funding: $550m
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.
- 🧓 Pension contribution/salary sacrifice 🇬🇧
- 🚲 Cycle to work scheme (London) 🇬🇧
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Leadership
Victor Riparbelli
(Co-Founder & 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)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.
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