Manager of Product Design

Manager of Product Design

We're looking for an outcome-oriented design leader to join us as a 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.

The role:

• 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:

• 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:

• Paid parental leave entitling primary caregivers to 16 weeks of full pay, and secondary 5 weeks of full pay
• 25 days of annual leave + public holidays in the country where you are based.
• A generous referral scheme.
• Work from home set up.
• At Synthesia, you can work from anywhere ( _within reason)_ in the world for up to 60 days per year!
• A huge opportunity for career growth as you’ll help shape a market-defining product.