Product Manager, Video Creation & Editing (Principal-level)

London, United Kingdom
2 weeks ago
Job Type
Permanent
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Lead
Posted
1 Apr 2026 (2 weeks ago)

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US.

As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations.

Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow.

About the role

As a Product Manager operating at a Principal-level, you will own the vision and strategy for our 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.

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 our London office.

🏝 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 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.

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