Senior Solutions Engineer - French Speaker

synthesia; France; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Synthesia is hiring a Senior Solutions Engineer to help build the presales function in France and Southern EMEA. You will partner with Account Executives, Customer Success and Product Marketing to run discovery, deliver demos, scope POCs and design the technical solution for each deal.

You will be a trusted advisor focused on customer value, helping synthesize learnings back to Product as we scale across multiple product lines.

Qualifications

• Experience in pre-sales or solutions engineering within a tech environment.
• Ability to design technical solutions and run discovery with customers.
• Strong communication skills with executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery calls to understand customer requirements and tech environment.
• Deliver compelling demos and quantify value for business stakeholders.
• Define POC scope and design technical solutions for deals.
• Provide guidance on platform capabilities, security and compliance.
• Collaborate with sales, success and product to shape deals.

Skills

Discovery calls

Demo delivery

Technical guidance

Stakeholder management

POC design

Tools

SOC 2

GDPR

API integrations

SDK integrations

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 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.

We're hiring a Senior Solutions Engineer to build Synthesia's presales function in France and Southern EMEA. This is a founding role: you'll be one of the first SEs, shaping the playbook, tooling and best practices as we scale, not following an established model.

As a Solutions Engineer at Synthesia, you will partner with Account Executives, Customer Success and Product Marketing to run discovery, deliver demos, scope POCs and design the technical solution for each deal. You will be a trusted advisor focused on the value customers get from Synthesia, and you'll take what you learn in the field back to Product.

This is an incredible opportunity to join us as we become a multi-product company for the first time, and continue to scale across France and Southern EMEA. If you're someone who is excited and driven by building whilst scaling, we'd love to hear from you.

Sales Cycle Ownership

• Coplan and execute discovery calls to understand customer requirements, their technical environment, and current business challenges.
• Design and deliver compelling demonstrations that solve customer problems, quantify the value of solving those problems, and tell a clear, credible story of how Synthesia solves them better than anything else.
• Understand and overcome technical objections and integration concerns; identify blockers early and develop solution paths with customers.
• Support stakeholder workshops that connect Synthesia to the buyer's broader technology strategy on complex, multi-stakeholder deals.
• Partner with Account Executives to define account and deal strategy, advise on competitive positioning, and provide your assessment of opportunity stage and forecast your book of business to leadership.

Demo Excellence

• Design and execute repeatable Demo methodologies that prove Synthesia's business value quickly, whether the customer is deploying Studio at scale, designing Roleplay Sessions for skill uplift, or integrating Interactive Avatars into their product.
• Identify, build relationships with, and actively empower executive champions within customer organizations so they can advocate for Synthesia internally.
• Develop and maintain reusable assets across demo environments, use cases, integration templates, objections, and industry playbooks brought to life directly in Synthesia's platform.
• Support POC and pilot readouts as a business narrative, not a feature tour, learning to bring storytelling and executive presence to the room as you grow into more senior conversations.
• Provide technical guidance on platform capabilities, API and SDK integrations, security, compliance topics (SOC 2, GDPR, enterprise identity), and scalability for global deployments.

Product & Industry Expertise

• Maintain deep expertise on Synthesia's platform capabilities across all product lines, roadmap, and positioning to highlight value driving use cases.
• Specific vertical knowledge, establishing credibility as a subject matter expert within an industry to easily build credibility and trust with executive buyers.
• Share customer and prospect product and competitive feedback to the pre-sales leadership and Product team; flag customer pain points, missing capabilities, and gaps that surface in live deals.
• Stay ahead of the AI-native learning and enablement space, so you can credibly discuss how customers are shifting from current, static methods to interactive practice and measurable skill development.

Ecosystem Collaboration

• Product: share customer and prospect feedback with Product, flagging pain points, missing capabilities, and gaps that surface in your deals to help shape the roadmap.
• Product Marketing: work with Product Marketing to understand and apply messaging and positioning in your deal cycles, and contribute to reusable assets like demo scripts and competitive battlecards.
• Customer Success: brief Customer Success on technical context and champion relationships at handover, so your POCs and pilots convert cleanly into production deployments.
• Enablement: Review and enhance enablement content from what is effective in preparing our team members for client engagements, delivering and evaluating certification as needed to accelerate understanding in the commercial team.