Manager of Product Design

Synthesia; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading generative AI company in London seeks a Manager of Product Design to spearhead the design direction and ensure a cohesive user experience. This role involves coaching a talented team, contributing to product development, and driving design as a strategic differentiator. Ideal candidates will have experience designing digital products and managing design teams, exhibiting a growth mindset and a passion for product excellence.

Benefits

Generous salary and equity

25 days annual leave + local holidays

Work from home budget

Work from anywhere policy (60 days/year)

Regular team offsites

Established company culture with socials

Generous referral scheme

Career growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven record in a design leadership position.
• Strong communication skills for team coaching.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with product teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design direction and product experience.
• Coach team members and foster career growth.
• Work with leadership to shape the design team.

Skills

Experience designing digital products and systems

Experience managing Product Designers

Full stack of Product Design knowledge

Ability to envision and lead change

Growth mindset

Job description

Manager of Product Design

tl;dr: 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.

As our Manager of Product Design, you’ll:

• 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.

You should apply if you bring more details could go here

At Synthesia we expect everyone to:

• Put the Customer First

• Own it & Go Direct

• Be Fast & Experimental

• Make the Journey Fun

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Benefits:

💸 You will be compensated well with a generous salary and equity.

🏝 You get 25 days of annual leave + local holidays.

🧑🧑🧒 Regular team offsites where you’ll get to collaborate with the product & engineering team in person.

🖥️ Work from home budget

🌍 Work from anywhere policy of 60 days per year

🥳 You will join an established company culture with regular socials.

👉 You can participate in a generous referral scheme.

🚀 Huge opportunity for a career defining role as we go from a series D scale-up with strong PMF to the next phase of growth.

📍London HQ - Synthesia will cover sponsorship for this role