Product Manager - Generative AI

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Over the past 100 years, media production went through cycles of innovation that impacted the production, distribution, and consumption of media in ways that we couldn't predict.

Things are changing quickly, technologies grow and evolve in multiple waves.

One way to think of the development of technologies is that it usually starts small and slow. There's an early stage where the technology doesn't quite work yet and it doesn't look like it'll be very useful or important.

But then it reaches a point where the growth accelerates upward. From the time when it was kind of a crazy idea, it moves into a time of excitement and growth.

Everything starts to work.

Image credit: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html

At Synthesia, we believe the future of media is synthetic. Not sure what's that about? Check this article written by our CEO Victor Riparbelli.

It's kind of a crazy idea.

But after 5 years of research and a roller coaster ride of successes and failures, Synthesia is now the leading brand in AI video production with over 12,000 customers to date.

Yet we are just laying the groundwork for a whole new kind of media. Imagine joining Uber, Airbnb or Stripe when these companies were just getting started. That's how early we are.

About the job

We’re hiring a Product Manager, someone that will shape in a significant way our technology and research roadmap. You'll be working very closely with our Head of Product and CTO on imagining the future of synthetic media and programmable video. You'll be a part of a small, humble and driven team of talented researchers, engineers and PMs.

Our avatar tech is at the core of Studio, a creative tool, used by a community of passionate users (from freelancers to content creators working in fortune 500 companies) on a daily basis and growing quickly. They love and depend on it (see our G2 reviews), they also provide us a ton of feedback. Your role will be to work with our Research team to shape the future of generative video, finding the right path between user needs and state-of-the-art computer vision techniques to push the boundary of what’s possible with Generative AI.

As a Product Manager, you will help us create a name for Synthesia Studio as the most innovative video creation tool, period. You will stay on top of new and exciting developments in the computer vision and text-to-speech research community and relate those to the needs demonstrated by our users when using Studio. You’ll help identify and frame opportunities for our research team to tackle, provide feedback along the research cycle and turn research breakthroughs into product features. 

This is (at least we think!) the coolest job in the generative AI space you can find. You’ll be bridging state-of-the-art research and product development. You will constantly be creating new experiments and prototypes that inspire and show the way to others. You will not only demonstrate an understanding of the tech but also the creativity and vision necessary to shape our industry in the long run. Our North Star is to create a software allowing people to generate a Hollywood movie from their laptop. You will need to be one of the people that chip at the problem, figuring out how we get there one step at a time.

Our product team is just getting off the ground. If you’ve worked at previous companies thinking there’s a better way to do product, this is your opportunity to shape things the way you always thought they should be.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience product managing world-class products or cutting edge research
• Strong product opinions and taste - not shying away from proposing solutions based on your intuition and experience
• Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and bridge business goals with technical considerations
• Expertise in machine learning and AI - you must be able to read an ML paper, understand what this could mean for our product and explain it to others; you’ve experimented with ML models (stable diffusion, dreambooth etc.)
• Ability to take ownership of the end-to-end idea to product process and work as self-directed member of the development team
• Strong UX focus and understanding of human behaviour
• Proven track record of shipping impactful products
• Outstanding communication skills

Benefits:

💸 You will be compensated well (salary + stock options + bonus)

📍 You can work remotely or for one of our offices in London, Copenhagen, Amsterdam or Munich

🏝 You get 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays

🥳 You will join an established company culture with regular socials and company retreats

🤩 You get 4 weeks paid sabbatical after 4 years at the company + $10,000!!

🍼 You get a paid parental leave and we contribute to your pension plan 

👉 You can participate in a generous referral scheme

💻 You get a brand new computer of your choice (if that still counts as a benefit in 2022 🤔)

🚀 You will have huge opportunities for your career growth

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