Engineering Manager

2 Months ago • 2 Years +

Software Development & Engineering

Job Description

Synthesia is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the delivery of complex engineering projects. This role involves breaking down projects into manageable stages with predictable timelines, making informed trade-off decisions, and communicating effectively with stakeholders. The manager will challenge and support senior engineers to achieve technical excellence, understand engineering leveling, and scale the team by identifying and filling skill gaps. Collaboration with recruiting is key to attract and retain top talent, ensuring the team structure supports business needs. Proactive monitoring of team performance, identifying and addressing issues promptly, and developing strategies to retain top performers through growth opportunities and recognition are also crucial. The manager will navigate difficult conversations with clarity and empathy, especially with senior team members, and resolve disagreements constructively.

Good To Have:

Experience in scaling teams
Relevant engineering background in SaaS
Experience with billing systems, experimentation platforms, or video delivery systems

Must Have:

Lead complex engineering projects
Scale teams and identify skill gaps
Monitor team performance and retention
Handle difficult conversations and resolve conflicts
2+ years of engineering team leadership

Perks:

Opportunity to work in the AI industry
Fast-growing company with high valuation
Proprietary AI technology
Focus on AI safety, ethics, and security
Culture that values building and empowers employees

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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 at work. If you’re reading this and nodding, check out our brand video.

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….

Meet Synthesia

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 what 1,200+ people say on G2.

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.

What you'll do at Synthesia:

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.
Example of a feature team you would be leading - AI dubbing and Localisation is a team focused on translating any video into 29+ languages with the same voice and perfect lip sync. Check out the feature HERE.

What we're looking for:

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 delivering AI-powered video generation; billing systems, experimentation platforms, video delivery systems, and so on.

Why join us?

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,

Our culture

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.

Serving 50,000+ customers (and 50% of the Fortune 500)

We’re trusted by leading brands such as Heineken, Zoom, Xerox, McDonald’s and more. Read stories from happy customers and what 1,200+ people say on G2.

Proprietary AI technology

Since 2017, we’ve been pioneering advancements in Generative AI. Our AI technology is built in-house, by a team of world-class AI researchers and engineers. Learn more about our AI Research Lab and the team behind.

AI Safety, Ethics and Security

AI safety, ethics, and security are fundamental to our mission. While the full scope of Artificial Intelligence's impact on our society is still unfolding, our position is clear: People first. Always. Learn more about our commitments to AI Ethics, Safety & Security.