Engineering Manager; Developer Platform

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 — both at home and  you’re reading this and nodding, check out our brand video
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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....

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 what1,200+ people say on G2
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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.

• Lead the delivery of complex engineering projects, breaking them down into manageable stages with predictable timelines. Make informed decisions on trade-offs and effectively communicate these to stakeholders. Challenge and support senior engineers to achieve technical excellence.

• Understand engineering leveling and scale the team by identifying and filling skill gaps. Collaborate with recruiting to attract and retain top talent, ensuring the team structure supports current and future business needs.

• Monitor team performance proactively, identifying and addressing issues promptly. Develop strategies to retain top performers through growth opportunities and recognition.

• Navigate difficult conversations with clarity and empathy, especially when working with senior team members. Resolve disagreements by focusing on solutions that align with business goals and foster a collaborative team environment.

• Team you would be leading - Developer Platform is a team focused on helping engineers at Synthesia build, ship, and operate software faster and more safely by providing opinionated, self-service tooling with strong defaults. As the company grows, complexity grows with it. Our job is to create structure and tools to simplify and reduce that complexity so product teams don’t have to.

• Proven experience in leading engineering teams and delivering large-scale projects with predictable outcomes, ideally 2+ years.

• Strong understanding of engineering levels and experience in scaling teams effectively.

• Proven ability to track performance and helping every team member improve output and achieve career goals.

• Excellent communication skills, with experience in handling difficult conversations and resolving conflicts constructively.

• Relevant engineering background for a team building an enterprise-grade SaaS product.

• Experience in leading Platform/Dev Ex teams is a big plus, but not mandatory.

We’re living the golden age of AI. The next decade will yield the next iconic companies, and we dare to say we have what it takes to become one. Here’s why,

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.

We’re trusted by leading brands such as Heineken, Zoom,…