Principal Product Manager

*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. This is true 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.

*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.

About the role
As a Principal Product Manager, you will own the vision and strategy for our video platform, encompassing the Editor, Player, and public APIs. You will lead the effort to unify creation workflows and ensure a seamless experience across video editing, playback, and integration surfaces. This role offers the unique opportunity to shape how videos are created, scaled, and consumed at enterprise scale, influencing a product used by a diverse community from freelancers to 90% of Fortune 100 companies.

You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Design, Engineering, and Infrastructure, to drive platform usability, performance, and extensibility. Your work will empower users to move beyond traditional video editing complexity, enabling them to bring their creative vision to life with intuitive, scalable tools.

If you have a strong background in creative or collaborative tooling, a passion for UX-driven product development, and the ability to navigate complex product surfaces, this is your chance to make a significant impact in the evolving world of video creation.

What will you be doing?

• Defining and owning the product roadmap for the Editor Core, AI Assistant, Player, and public API surfaces.
• Shaping the platform strategy to enable extensibility, integration, and scalability for enterprise and developer adoption.
• Partnering with Infrastructure teams to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability of video creation and playback.
• Contributing the evolution of assisted creation features and AI-powered workflows within a unified product experience.
• Prioritizing use cases and features based on deep understanding of user needs, market trends, and competitive landscape.
• Leading cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-impact product releases on time and with quality.
• Advocating for a strong UX focus and intuitive design that lowers barriers to video creation for diverse user segments.
• Acting as a key influencer across the organization, communicating product vision and progress to stakeholders at all levels.

Who are you?

• You are a strategic thinker with a strong track record of leading complex, high-impact product initiatives.
• You have 7+ years of experience managing world-class products, ideally with a focus on creative or collaborative tooling.
• You possess deep product intuition and a strong UX focus, with the ability to understand and anticipate user needs.
• You have experience working on platform products, including APIs, extensibility, and integration surfaces.
• You are comfortable navigating large, ambiguous product areas and collaborating effectively across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• You have a solid understanding of video creation and editing complexities, with prior experience in video tools considered a strong plus.
• You are technically fluent, able to engage confidently with engineering and infrastructure teams on platform and API design.
• You have excellent communication skills and excel at cross-functional partnership with Engineering, Design, Sales, and Customer Support.
• You are customer-obsessed, with a passion for shipping impactful products that drive meaningful user outcomes.
• You thrive in high-autonomy roles and are comfortable owning the end-to-end product lifecycle from strategy to execution.

*Our culture*
At Synthesia we're passionate about building, not talking, planning or politicising. We strive to hire the smartest, kindest and most unrelenting people and let them do their best work without distractions. Our work principles serve as our charter for how we make decisions, give feedback and structure our work to empower everyone to go as fast as possible. You can find out more about these principles here.

*Benefits:*
You will be compensated well with a generous salary and equity.

Flexible, hybrid role based from one of our London, Copenhagen, Munich, Zurich, or Amsterdam offices or remote across Europe.

You get 25 days of annual leave + local holidays.

Regular team offsites where you'll get to collaborate with the product & engineering team in person.

Work from home budget

Work from anywhere policy of 60 days per year

You will join an established company culture with regular socials.

You can participate in a generous referral scheme.

Huge opportunity for a career defining role as we go from a series D scale-up with strong PMF to the next phase of growth.

Our Hiring Process
You can check out this video for an overview on what to expect during process.