Senior People Partner

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.

As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations.

Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow.

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. We’ve raised over $150M in funding from top-tier investors, including Accel, Nvidia, Kleiner Perkins, Google and top founders and operators including Stripe, Datadog, Miro, Webflow, and Facebook.

Join the rocket ship while it's taking off! 🚀

The role...

Our Senior People Partner will play a pivotal role in ensuring our people partnering programmes are delivered on time and designed well to support our rapidly growing population. 

Skills and Experience

• 6 to 8 years of experience in a People Partner/HRBP role

• Capable of advising and guiding positive outcomes 

• Approaches projects with strategic alignment to the business 

• Skilled in performance management and coaching teams and leaders to achieve short and long term goals

• Provides expert advice and guidance on people matters, supporting ICs, managers and functional leaders with casework and employee relations.

• History with workforce, succession planning and change management

• Knowledge of multiple geographies employment legislation, specifically UK, USA, EMEA and APAC (or a combination)

• Successful experience in communicating and collaborating in a fast-paced international environment

• Experience with our techstack, HiBob, Oyster, Payfit

• Prior experience in high growth tech scale-up environments

 About you...

• Collaborative and inquisitive, approaches challenges with questions to ensure full context

• Understanding and empathy for individual contributors, managers and functional leaders

• High agency and high urgency, resilient and adaptable to constant change

• Self-starter who is confident working autonomously 

• Highly rational thinker, capable run risk-analysis and cost vs benefit based decision making

• Ability to manage several projects in parallel

• Detail-oriented but able to zoom out to see the bigger picture.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to collaborate with a diverse, global team

• Automation-first mindset, obsessed with automating operational tasks

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.

The good stuff...

In addition to being a part of a great team, working in a fun and innovative environment, we offer...

📍 A hybrid setting where you can work from our London office

💸 A competitive salary + stock options

🍼 Paid parental leave entitling primary caregivers to 16 weeks of full pay, and secondary 5 weeks of full pay

🏝 25 days of annual leave + public holidays in the country where you are based

🚲 Cycle to work scheme (London)

🥳 Regular socials and company retreats + and regular tasty lunches!

🏥 Private Medical Insurance (Medical History Disregarded basis) including mental health support, dental & vision, cashback and gym discounts.

👉 A generous referral scheme

🧓 Pension contribution/salary sacrifice

💻 Work from home set up

🚀 A huge opportunity for career growth as you’ll help shape a market-defining product