Product Designer

tl;dr: We're looking for an Product Designer with a few years experience to help rethink the paradigm of video creation. You'll partner with a Principal Product Designer to shape our generative AI-powered video creation platform. We see product design as a true strategic differentiator and a crucial part of our moat. You’ll help ensure Synthesia becomes a reference for what world-class enterprise product design looks like.

Welcome to the video first world

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.

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….

Meet Synthesia

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 February 2024, G2 named us as the fastest growing company in the world. Today, we're at a $2.1bn valuation and we recently raised our Series D. This brings our total funding to over $330M from top-tier investors, including Accel, Nvidia, Kleiner Perkins, Google and top founders and operators including Stripe, Datadog, Miro, Webflow, and Facebook.

As a Product Designer at Synthesia, you’ll partner closely with a Principal Product Designer on our core video creation capabilities.

What you will be working on:

• We’re building a video creation platform for everyone, not some specialist tool. We see a future where Synthesia sits alongside word processors, presentation software, and spreadsheet applications as staple used by many. As part of this, we’ve moved away from prevailing UX paradigms in video creation. You’ll need to uncover new patterns that enable our users create incredible content while avoiding the complexity that comes with traditional video production.
• The longer a user spends in our product, the more they’ll discover. You’ll need to successfully balance the tension of ensuring users have the advanced capabilities they need while maintaining a straightforward & accessible UI. Think of this as keeping things approachable on the surface, powerful in depth.
• Repeatable patterns help our users form a consistent mental model in the face of new paradigms and reuse what they’ve learned. You’ll need to figure out what works and how we can implement it throughout the creation experience.

In this role you will:

• Partner with a Principal Product Designer to shape the future of browser based video creation.
• Leverage feedback from our users & customers to ensure our product continues to meet their needs.
• Tackle complex and novel problems as we mature our nascent product and uncover new use cases.
• Play a key role in the early stages of product development as part of a team that aspires to create one of the best designed SaaS tools out there.
• Work with a team that ships fast and iterates quickly..
• Solve our most important UX problems and shape the future of Synthesia - from the initial idea stage to the final execution.

You should apply if you bring:

• 3+ years of experience in designing SaaS web apps or B2C products.
• Strong product opinions and taste. We look for designers who will not shy away from proposing solutions based on your intuition and experience.
• Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and clearly articulate design decisions.
• Ability to take ownership of the design process and work as a self-directed member of the development team.
• Strong UX focus and understanding of human behaviour.
• Proven track record of creating beautiful, cohesive and meaningful design and UI, strong attention to details.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.

Designers who bring the following will stand out:

• Interactive prototyping skills
• Motion design experience
• Strong visual design skills (typography, illustrations, iconography and brand design)
• Experience working on tooling.

At Synthesia we expect everyone to:

• Put the Customer First
• Own it & Go Direct
• Be Fast & Experimental
• Make the Journey Fun

You can read more about this in this public Notion page: https://synthesia.notion.site/How-we-work-at-Synthesia-f794caa72f8446efb6be22b551ce0fa2

You can expect the following in return...

💸 A competitive salary + stock options in our fast growing Series D start-up.

📍 A remote-friendly environment. You’ll also have the options to work from one of our offices in London, Copenhagen, Amsterdam or Munich if you choose.

🏝 25 days of annual leave + public holidays in the country where you are based.

🥳 Regular socials.

🍼 Paid parental leave.

👉 A generous referral scheme.

🚀 A huge opportunity for career growth as you’ll help shape a market-defining product.