# Manager of Product Design **Company**: Synthesia **Location**: London **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: mid **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Design **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12057983 **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/synthesia/2247ac3e-7fdc-4860-b761-186cbf974001?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_915a6720-073 ## Description ## 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. ## Skills ### Required - Product Design - Digital Products - Systems Thinking - Visual Design - Generative AI - Product Management - Leadership - Communication - Problem-Solving ### Nice to have - Product Development - User Experience - Design Systems - Brand Identity - User Research - Prototyping - Design Tools - Agile Methodologies --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/synthesia/2247ac3e-7fdc-4860-b761-186cbf974001?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)