Director, Business Partnering (People Team)

From your everyday PowerPoint presentations to Hollywood movies, AI will transform the way we create and consume content. Today, people want to watch and listen, not read — both at home and at work. If you’re reading this and nodding, check out our brand video. 

Despite the clear preference for video, communication and knowledge sharing in the business environment are still dominated by text, largely because high-quality video production remains complex and challenging to scale—until now…

We're on a mission to make video easy for everyone. Born in an AI lab, our AI video communications platform simplifies the entire video production process, making it easy for everyone, regardless of skill level, to create, collaborate, and share high-quality videos. Whether it's for delivering essential training to employees and customers or marketing products and services, Synthesia enables large organizations to communicate and share knowledge through video quickly and efficiently. We’re trusted by leading brands such as Heineken, Zoom, Xerox, McDonald’s, and more. Read stories from happy customers and what 1,200+ people say on G2.

 In 2023, we were one of 7 European companies to reach unicorn status. In February 2024, G2 named us as the fastest growing company in the world. In 2025 we announced our series D funding. In total we’ve raised over $330M in funding from top-tier investors, including NEA, Atlassian Ventures, WiL, PSP Growth, and existing investors such as Accel, Nvidia, Kleiner Perkins, GV and top founders and operators including Stripe, Datadog, Miro, Webflow, and Facebook.

The Role

We’re looking for a Director of Business Partnering to continue to build and lead our People Partnering function. This is a strategic, high-impact role that will help shape the way our organisation scales during a period of hyper-growth.

You’ll partner closely with our People Ops team and leaders across all divisions — Product + Engineering, Commercial (Sales, Marketing, CS), Operations, and G&A — with a particular emphasis on strengthening our commercial partnering capabilities.

You’ll be leading a phenomenal team of 3 People partners with a mandate to grow that team in order to support our fast growing organisation. We want to drive a People Partnering model that is:

• AI-first
• Deeply data and insight-driven
• Relentlessly business-oriented and strategic
• Designed to scale globally

What You’ll Do

Lead the People Partnering Function

• Design and build the People Partnering model for a fast-scaling, product-led AI company.
• Establish a strategic and consultative approach that ties People decisions directly to business outcomes.
• Develop frameworks for organisation design, headcount planning, succession, talent management, and change management.

Support Hyper-Growth & Organisational Scaling

• Anticipate organisational needs ahead of growth.
• Ensure we are set up to scale sustainably across regions and functions.
• Partner on workforce planning, role design, and leadership capability building.

Partner with Senior Leaders Across the Company, together with People Partners

• Act as a trusted advisor to executives in Commercial, Product & Engineering, and Operations.
• Bring rigour, insight, and challenge to leadership decision-making.
• Translate business strategy into talent and organisation-scaling strategies.

Drive an AI-First, Data-Driven People Partnering Practice

• Partner with our People Ops team to use insights, dashboards, AI tools, and predictive data models to inform decision-making.
• Evaluate and implement AI-native processes that allow the People team to scale faster than headcount.
• Champion experimentation and automation across the People Partnering function.

Be a Cultural Influence

• Model Synthesia’s values and help leaders embed them across rapidly expanding teams.
• Contribute to a healthy, high-performance culture during a period of fast evolution.

What We’re Looking For

• Extensive experience in People Business Partnering roles, including partnering closely with commercial GTM teams.
• Experience supporting high-growth tech or scaling organisations. Ideally have led function during hypergrowth: from 300-1000+ employees.
• Ability to manage complexity across global regions, with a focus on UK, US, France and DACH regions.
• Demonstrated ability to design and evolve org structures during rapid scale and leadership coaching.
• A data-driven, structured problem-solver who uses insights, dashboards, and metrics in every recommendation.
• A builder mentality — scrappy, adaptable, unphased by ambiguity, and able to switch between strategy and execution.
• Clear, confident communication and executive-level influencing skills.

Apply Now

If you’re excited by the idea of scaling a world-class organisation powered by AI — and you want to shape the future of work inside a company redefining video — we’d love to hear from you.