[Hiring] Senior Engineering Manager, Agents Platform @Synthesia

Role Description

Lead the delivery of complex engineering projects focused on driving user acquisition, activation, and revenue growth. Responsibilities include:

• Break down initiatives into manageable stages with predictable timelines.
• Make clear trade-offs between speed, experimentation, and long-term scalability.
• Partner closely with product and data to prioritize high-impact work and maximize business outcomes.
• Understand engineering levelling and scale the team by identifying and filling skill gaps, particularly in areas like experimentation, performance, and conversion optimization.
• Collaborate with recruiting to attract and retain top talent aligned with Growth’s fast-paced, outcome-driven environment.
• Monitor team performance proactively, ensuring strong execution and continuous improvement.
• Support engineers in delivering measurable impact and developing their careers through ownership of key growth metrics.
• Navigate difficult conversations with clarity and empathy, balancing business urgency with technical quality.
• Foster a collaborative, high-velocity team culture aligned with company goals.

Team you would be leading – Agents Platform:

• Responsible for building a highly reliable platform with consistent uptime, low latency, and extensive support for model types and voice types.
• Own and build the repeatable platform layer that other teams can build their products on top of.
• Work closely with R&D to productionise their work and with the wider Product org to cover immediate needs.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams delivering high-impact, user-facing projects, ideally 4+ years.
• Strong ability to operate in fast-paced, experiment-driven environments with clear business metrics.
• Experience scaling teams and aligning them to product and revenue goals.
• Proven ability to track performance and help team members improve output and impact.
• Excellent communication skills, especially in cross-functional environments (product, data, design).
• Relevant engineering background building scalable SaaS products.
• Experience with growth, experimentation, or conversion optimization is a strong plus.

Benefits

• Salary starts at EUR/GBP/CHF 180,000 base + stock option plan.
• Full-time employment only - no contractors possible, usually through OysterHR.
• 25 days of leave + local holidays (no extra paid or unpaid leave possible).

Company Description

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.

• Serving 50,000+ customers (and 80% of the Fortune 500).
• Trusted by leading brands such as Heineken, Zoom, Xerox, McDonald’s and more.
• Proprietary AI technology built in-house by a team of world-class AI researchers and engineers.
• AI safety, ethics, and security are fundamental to our mission: People first. Always.