Head of Sales - UK/I

1 Month ago • All levels • Sales

Job Summary

Job Description

Synthesia is seeking an experienced SaaS Sales leader to join as our Head of Sales for the UK and Ireland. This role reports directly to the SVP of Sales and will be responsible for driving revenue growth from the existing customer base, focusing on enterprise and strategic segments. The ideal candidate will be an aspirational leader with extensive experience in winning and expanding strategic accounts within a value-driven sales environment. This is an opportunity to lead a high-performing team and significantly contribute to the company's growth. Responsibilities include leading the EMEA-based UK/I Accounts team to drive Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), ensuring a robust sales pipeline, refining account strategies, partnering on recruitment, building a strong team culture, fostering a pipeline-generation culture, collaborating with marketing and customer success, coaching sales representatives, supporting contract negotiations, and updating sales playbooks.
Must have:
  • Leadership experience managing large accounts
  • Managed senior sellers with $1M+ quotas
  • B2B SaaS sales experience (new business & expansion)
  • First-line management experience
  • Experience in value-driven, methodological sales (e.g., MEDDPICC)
  • Proven ability to build and scale high-performing teams
  • Experience in rapid growth environments
  • Strong executive presence
  • Exceptional verbal and written English
Perks:
  • Competitive salary and stock options
  • 25 days annual leave + public holidays
  • Option to take 5 days unpaid leave and carry over 5 days
  • Private healthcare through AXA (including mental health support)
  • Pension contribution
  • Paid parental leave
  • Recruitment referral scheme
  • Necessary equipment for the role

Job Details

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 2023, we were one of 7 European companies to reach unicorn status. In February 2024, G2 named us as the fastest growing company in the world. In 2025 we announced our series D funding. In total we’ve raised over $330M in funding from top-tier investors, including NEA, Atlassian Ventures, WiL, PSP Growth, and existing investors such as Accel, Nvidia, Kleiner Perkins, GV and top founders and operators including Stripe, Datadog, Miro, Webflow, and Facebook.

About the role…

Synthesia is seeking an experienced SaaS Sales leader to join as our Head of Sales for UK and Ireland. Reporting directly to our SVP of Sales, you will spearhead the team responsible for boosting revenue from our current customer base, concentrating on our enterprise and strategic segments. We are in search of an aspirational leader capable of leveraging their extensive experience in winning and expanding strategic logos within a value-driven sales environment. This is a unique opportunity to inherit a high-performing team and play a pivotal role in the upcoming exciting stage of our growth.

What you’ll be doing…

  • Lead our EMEA-based UK/I Accounts team, driving Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) through landing and expanding our highest value customers 
  • Become responsible for ensuring a robust pipeline of sales opportunities is being delivered by the team, ensuring confidence in future revenue.
  • Using your experience, refine and implement a comprehensive account strategy to nurture existing relationships with key accounts and expand reach to a more executive audience.
  • Partnering closely with Talent Acquisition and SVP to recruit for your team.
  • Building a team culture where high-performing senior sellers can be developed, thrive, and grow at Synthesia.
  • Drive a Pipeline-Generation (PG) culture where everyone is responsible for outbound.
  • Collaborate closely with the marketing and customer success teams and leaders to ensure alignment between the commercial aspects of the business and maximize customer satisfaction and engagement.
  • Using your experience, passionately and actively support, coach, and mentor the Sales reps to meet and exceed targets.
  • Support the team as and when needed when negotiating and closing complex contracts.
  • Update existing sales playbooks with sales processes, methodologies, and learnings to optimise the sales function.

Requirements

  • You'll need a wealth of leadership experience where you've been responsible for the team owning large accounts
  • The senior sellers you've managed have each carried a quota of $1mil+ and have targeted, won and expanded large, complex organisations.
  • Extensive experience in b2b SaaS sales winning new business and expanding existing accounts - before you became a manager, you had your own successful SaaS sales career.
  • Genuine motivation and excitement to remain a first line manager with a proactive approach and mentality to your teams' success. 
  • Experience in reputable, value-driven, methodological sales environments, ideally using MEDDPICC.
  • You’ve built and scaled high-performing teams and see recruitment as the most important thing you can invest your time in.
  • You've experienced rapid growth & understand the opportunities and challenges that can bring - and you thrive in it! 
  • Strong executive presence tied with exceptional verbal and written English.

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.

Benefits

  • A competitive salary + stock options
  • 25 days of annual leave + public holidays (plus the option to take 5 days unpaid leave and carry 5 days over)
  • Private healthcare through AXA, including mental health support through the Stronger Minds service
  • Pension contribution - Synthesia contributes 3% and employee contributes 5% on qualifying earnings
  • Paid parental leave entitling primary caregivers to 16 weeks of full pay, and secondary 5 weeks of full pay
  • You can participate in a generous recruitment referral scheme if you help us to hire
  • The equipment you need to be successful in your role

 

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