Product Designer (Principal-Level)

Lead complex and ambiguous design initiatives to define the long-term UX vision and product direction for the AI video platform. Act as a strategic partner to Product and Engineering leads while mentoring senior designers to raise the overall craft bar.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, complex, or ambiguous design initiatives across teams and surfaces - owning direction, success criteria, and long-term UX vision, not just execution
• Reframe problems, anticipate downstream risks, and bring clarity to spaces where product direction is still forming
• Operate as a strategic partner to Product and Engineering leads: helping define the right problems to solve, shaping long-term product bets, and bringing fresh insight to prioritisation decisions
• Prototype and test interaction models quickly, knowing when to go high-fidelity and when a rough concept moves things faster
• Drive alignment across teams and stakeholders beyond your immediate group - communicating complex ideas with confidence, clarity, and empathy, and helping leadership make sense of ambiguity

Requirements

• A track record of leading high-impact design work across large, ambiguous, or cross-functional problem spaces - and delivering outcomes that meaningfully shift product quality, clarity, or direction
• Recognised excellence in craft, in at least one design discipline, with a history of raising the standard for those around you
• Comfort operating without perfect clarity: you turn ambiguous problem spaces into crisp direction, and you don't wait to be handed a well-defined brief
• Systems thinking: you understand how product architecture, AI capabilities, and organisational constraints shape what's possible in the UX - not just what looks good on screen
• Strong strategic instincts: you frame the right problems, challenge assumptions, and contribute meaningfully to roadmap and prioritisation decisions
• Experience aligning diverse stakeholders and cross-functional teams around design decisions - communicating with confidence and empathy at every level

Benefits

• A flexible, remote friendly role based out of Europe or one of our hubs in London, Copenhagen, Munich, or Zurich
• 25 days of annual leave + public holidays in the country where you are based
• A generous referral scheme
• Work from home set up
• At Synthesia, you can work from anywhere (within reason) in the world for up to 60 days per year
• A huge opportunity for career growth as you’ll help shape a market-defining product

Key Skills