Director, Text-to-Speech Research & Production

PromptCube; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Deepgram is seeking a Director of Text-to-Speech Synthesis Research in London to own the end-to-end TTS program, shaping strategy, experiments, and production models while building a high-impact team. You will drive advancements across neural audio, prosody, multilingual speech, and efficient inference, ensuring measurable production gains and strong collaboration with engineering and product leadership.

The role requires deep technical leadership, a proven track record in training large neural

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in modern TTS, speech generation, or audio generative modeling.
• Ability to personally train and improve large-scale neural models.
• Experience leading researchers and research engineers, setting direction across sub-teams.
• Ability to communicate complex technical tradeoffs to product and executives.
• Comfort with an AI-first operating rhythm and fast-changing environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the TTS research and model roadmap end to end, prioritizing directions with meaningful production impact.
• Drive advances across neural audio modeling, prosody, expressiveness, multilingual speech, and inference performance.
• Stay deeply technical: review research, design experiments, diagnose model failures, and tackle high-leverage problems.
• Build evaluation benchmarks with automated metrics and perceptual assessments to explain improvements.
• Lead a team of individual contributors and tech leads, hiring and developing talent while maintain high technical standards.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership on ship-readiness and represent TTS research internally and externally.

Skills

TTS expertise

Neural model training

Experiment design

Research leadership

AI-first mindset

Communication with stakeholders

Job description

Deepgram is seeking a Director of Text-to-Speech Synthesis Research in London to own the end-to-end TTS program, shaping strategy, experiments, and production models while building a high-impact team. You will drive advancements across neural audio, prosody, multilingual speech, and efficient inference, ensuring measurable production gains and strong collaboration with engineering and product leadership.

The role requires deep technical leadership, a proven track record in training large neural