Manager of Product Design

Methodfi; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI video platform is seeking a Manager of Product Design to lead their design team in developing a generative AI product. The role involves shaping product strategies, coaching team members, and ensuring high-quality user experience. Candidates should have experience in digital product design, managing teams, and possess strong leadership skills. This opportunity offers a competitive salary, equity, and flexibility with a work-from-anywhere policy and generous annual leave.

Benefits

Generous salary and equity

25 days of annual leave + local holidays

Work from home budget

Work from anywhere for 60 days per year

Regular team offsites

Generous referral scheme

Qualifications

• Experience designing digital products and systems.
• Experience managing Product Designers and building rapport.
• Ability to have informed discussions on Product Design.
• Envision and lead change within the team.
• Willingness to embrace a growth mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design direction of products and ensure outstanding user experience.
• Coach team members to develop their careers.
• Collaborate with leadership to enhance the Product Design team.
• Anticipate necessary investments for design advancements.
• Ensure product design provides a cohesive user experience.
• Guide the team in rethinking video creation processes.

Skills

Product Design

People Management

Systems Thinking

Visual Design

Change Leadership

Growth Mindset

Job description

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 Series200 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 of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow.

Manager of Product Design

tl;dr: We're looking for an outcome-oriented Manager of Product Design. You'll lead our high-quality design team and shape a generative AI product with strong PMF. You’ll set us on a path to become a reference for what world-class enterprise product design looks like.

As our Manager of Product Design, you’ll:

• Lead the Design direction of our product and ensure a cohesive and outstanding visual language and user experience.

• Coaching and providing feedback on your team’s performance, helping them to develop clear career development goals and action plans on how to achieve them.

• Partnering directly with our Director of Product Design and VP of Product, to evolve the Product Design team: our people, our structure, our processes, our beliefs

• Anticipate and plan for the Design investments that will be necessary to take the product to new heights.

• Ensure product design is a strategic differentiator and that Synthesia is known for a simple, cohesive, and memorable user experience.

• Lead a team who are rethinking the paradigm of video creation around the latest advancements in generative AI.

• Identify opportunities to bring in more of the brand into our Product Design.

You should apply if you bring:

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Experience designing digital products and systems. This isn’t solely a people management role - you’ll also be involved with and guide the product work. All of our managers care deeply about and actively engage in our product development process, details, and outcomes.

• Experience managing Product Designers and genuinely caring about how the people who report to you perform, feel, and grow. The ability to develop a genuine relationship with people and help them grow, learn, and succeed.

• A working knowledge of the full stack of Product Design, from systems thinking to visual design. You don’t need to be a specialist in all of these things, but you should be able to have informed, intelligent conversations.

• Ability to envision and lead change. There are many things that we still need to evolve and improve about how we work, and the design manager role will be a key part in driving that change. We’re looking for someone who aligns with our values, but also who makes us better.

• A growth mindset. Willingness to own problems. Comfort with ambiguity. Passion for building product. A desire to make things better.

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

Benefits:

💸 You will be compensated well with a generous salary and equity.

🏝 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.

📍London HQ - Synthesia will cover sponsorship for this role