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AI video generation — create studio-quality video from text

Product Designer (Staff/Principal-level)

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Our take

Same compelling Staff/Principal role at Synthesia but with broader European location flexibility. AI video generation is one of the more interesting design problem spaces right now — the interaction patterns are still being invented.

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, the company has offices across Europe and the US. Recently, they completed a Series E funding round raising $200 million, bringing their valuation to $4 billion with total funding exceeding $530 million from investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, and GV.

The Role

The position seeks a Staff/Principal Product Designer to lead design for Synthesia's core creation and editing experience: the surfaces where customers script, build, iterate, collaborate on, and publish videos at scale.

The role emphasizes operating as a senior individual contributor who will set direction, influence roadmap decisions, and shape strategic bets alongside Product and Engineering leadership. The designer will raise the craft bar across the entire creation experience.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own major creation/editor bets end-to-end, from problem framing to shipped outcomes and iteration
  • Set a design vision for key parts of the editor, and influence adjacent product surfaces to stay coherent
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to define what 'great' looks like (principles, quality bar, success metrics)
  • Prototype and test interaction models quickly (and know when high-fidelity matters)
  • Raise the bar on craft: interaction design, UI quality, systems thinking, and consistency

    • Specific Focus Areas

  • Canvas and timeline/editor workflows balancing approachability with depth
  • Creating repeatable interaction patterns supporting consistent mental models
  • Improving creation quality through structure, guidance, and feedback loops
  • Enabling collaboration, reviews, handoffs, and consistency within the editor
  • Working in spaces where AI fundamentally changes authoring paradigms

    • Required Qualifications

  • Significant experience designing complex, high-usage product surfaces (creation tools, editors, collaboration/canvas-based products)
  • Strong craft in interaction design and UI, and a track record of shipping work that measurably improves the product experience
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity: you can turn unclear problem spaces into crisp direction
  • Systems thinking: you understand how product architecture, state, and constraints shape the UX
  • Excellent communication in design reviews and cross-functional decision-making contexts

    • Benefits

  • Flexible, remote-friendly position based in Europe or hubs in London, Copenhagen, Munich, or Zurich
  • 25 days annual leave plus public holidays
  • Generous referral scheme
  • Work-from-home setup provided
  • Up to 60 days per year working from anywhere globally

    • About Synthesia

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