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AI video generation — create studio-quality video from text

Product Designer (Staff/Principal-level)

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Our take

Staff or Principal-level Product Designer at Synthesia means shaping how people create AI-generated video — a product category that barely existed a few years ago. The design problems are genuinely novel.

Job description

Company Overview

Synthesia is the world's leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London with offices across Europe and the US, the company raised $200 million in Series E funding at a $4 billion valuation, with total funding exceeding $530 million.

The Role

The position involves leading design for Synthesia's core creation and editing experience—the surfaces where customers script, build, iterate, collaborate on, and publish videos at scale. This role is central to redefining video creation by removing traditional editing needs while improving quality and consistency.

As a senior individual contributor, you'll set direction, influence roadmap decisions, shape bets with product and engineering leaders, and raise craft standards across the entire creation experience.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own major creation/editor initiatives end-to-end, from problem definition to shipped outcomes
  • Set design vision for key editor components and influence adjacent surfaces for coherence
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to define quality standards and success metrics
  • Prototype and test interaction models quickly, determining when high-fidelity design matters
  • Raise craft standards in interaction design, UI quality, systems thinking, and consistency

    • Specific Focus Areas

  • Canvas and timeline/editor workflows that balance approachability with power
  • Repeatable interaction patterns that scale across the creation experience
  • Creation quality improvements through better structure, guidance, and feedback
  • Collaboration and iteration features (reviews, handoffs, reusable patterns)
  • AI-influenced authoring patterns where best practices are still emerging

    • Required Qualifications

  • Significant experience designing complex, high-usage product surfaces (creation tools, editors, collaboration/canvas-based products)
  • Strong craft in interaction design and UI with measurable shipping results
  • Ability to operate in ambiguity and convert unclear problems into crisp direction
  • Systems thinking understanding of how architecture, state, and constraints shape UX
  • Excellent cross-functional communication in design reviews and decision-making

    • Benefits

  • Flexible, hybrid role based in London
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave (primary caregivers); 5 weeks (secondary)
  • 25 days annual leave plus public holidays
  • Generous referral scheme
  • Work-from-home setup
  • Up to 60 days per year working from anywhere globally

    • About Synthesia

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