Product Manager, Interactive Avatars (Staff/Principal-level)
Job description
Product Manager role at Synthesia owning the Interactive Avatar API, taking it from closed beta to a platform developers build on. The role covers the developer-facing surface, real-time experience quality, roadmap, and commercial model.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Hybrid · London, United Kingdom
What you'll do
- Owning the end-to-end Interactive Avatar API: the developer-facing surface (SDK, integration patterns, docs), the real-time experience quality, and the path from closed beta to general availability, and defining what the roadmap looks like over the coming cycles
- Getting close to the developers and teams building on the beta: understanding how they integrate, where the API fights them, which real-time behaviors make or break the experience, and what "production-ready" means to them
- Translating that understanding into a clear product direction: what to build, in what order, and why, and keeping the team aligned as the strategy evolves
- Working closely with the engineering and research teams building the real-time avatar stack; contributing clear specs, sound judgment on trade-offs (quality vs. latency vs. cost), and the context that helps them build the right thing the first time
- Partnering with go-to-market and commercial teams to define how the API is packaged, priced, and sold
- Defining and tracking the metrics that tell us whether the product is working across adoption, integration success, real-time quality, reliability, and the commercial signals that prove it's a business
What we're looking for
- 5+ years in product, with direct experience owning a developer-facing API, SDK, or platform product
- Comfortable operating in an early-stage, 0→1 environment where discovery and delivery happen in parallel and the roadmap is still being shaped
- Strong technical fluency: can hold a credible conversation with engineers about real-time systems, latency, and integration trade-offs, and make good calls without needing every answer handed to you
- Strong written communication: can write a spec, a strategy doc, or an API design rationale that others can act on without a follow-up conversation
- Based in London or open to regular in-person time
Nice to have
- Real-time / streaming media, conversational AI, or applied-AI product experience is a strong plus but not a prerequisite
- Instinct for the commercial side of a developer product - adoption, packaging, and monetization is a plus
Your team
Interactive Avatars
Early-stage team building the Interactive Avatars product, in closed beta today, working with engineering and research teams on the real-time avatar stack and with design partners live in the beta.
Benefits
Enhanced parental leave - maternity leave includes 16 weeks at full pay, and paternity leave includes 5 weeks at full pay
- Generous salary and equity
- 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
- Generous referral scheme
- Private healthcare via AXA for you with a discount for dependants (UK)
- 5% pension match (UK)
- Team lunches Tuesday-Friday in the office (UK)
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About Synthesia
The world's leading AI video platform for business
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.
Mission
Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations.
Key facts
- 2017
- London
- AI video platform
- Used by over 90% of the Fortune 100
- Raised $200 million in a recent Series E funding round
- Total funding exceeds $530 million
- Offices and teams across Europe and the US
Partners & customers
What they value
- Passionate about building, not talking, planning or politicising
- Hire the smartest, kindest and most unrelenting people and let them do their best work without distractions