Mid or Snr Visual Designer

Full Time
London, UK
5 months ago

TL;DR: You will be designing templates that enable everyone to create high-quality videos in a matter of minutes. You’ll curate and create illustrations, stickers and other assets, and leverage animations, transitions, music and sound effects that will pair with AI and help invent the video formats of the future.

Who are we?

We are on a mission to make video easy for anyone …

Synthesia is the world’s #1 AI video generation platform. Well, it’s actually a video production studio — in a browser. As in, no cameras or film crews at all. You simply choose an avatar, enter your script in one of 120 languages, and your video is ready in minutes. In Synthesia, you can build personalised on-the-fly videos, give your chatbot a human face or run 24/7 weather channels in different languages, to name just a few of the possibilities. 🎬

We believe the future of media is synthetic, and we are on a mission to turn cameras into code and make everyone a creator.

Not sure what we’re talking about? Check out our brand video that explains what we’re doing at Synthesia in a way that even our grandparents *kind of * understand what this AI video stuff is all about.

And yet we are just laying the groundwork for a whole new kind of media here. Imagine joining Uber, Airbnb or Stripe when these companies were just getting started.

That's how early we are – but enough about us now. As a Mid/Snr Visual Designer at Synthesia, you’ll design and curate the templates that help unlock AI video for our users.

In this role you will:
  • Partner with our Product team to design and curate the templates that power the future of synthetic media and video creation.
  • Create, design and source content such as illustrations, stickers, music and sound effects for Studio’s video creation templates.
  • Own, curate, and design how template content works within Studio.
  • Deliver highly-polished visual assets that enable our users to communicate effectively with the content they create in Studio.
  • Push the boundaries of what is possible within Studio and help unlock new cases for our platform.
  • Leverage feedback from our users & customers to ensure our product continues to meet their needs.
  • Play a key role in a high-visible area in a team that aspires to build one of the best-designed SaaS tools out there.
  • Work with a team that ships fast and iterates quickly.
  • Solve one of our most important UX problems and shape the future of synthetic media - from the initial idea stage to the final execution.
You should apply if you bring:
  • At least 3 years of experience in designing SaaS web apps or B2C products.
  • Proven track record and examples of creating beautiful, cohesive and meaningful designs and interfaces for digital products with strong attention to detail across typography, iconography, colour, and composition.
  • Strong product opinions and visual design taste. We look for designers who will not shy away from proposing solutions based on your intuition and experience.
  • Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and articulate design decisions.
  • Ability to take ownership of the design process and work as a self-directed member of the development team.
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills.
Designers who bring the following will stand out:
  • Interactive prototyping skills.
  • Experience with high-end presentation designs.
  • Video, motion, animation, or 3D experience.
  • Ability to create and develop high quality elements for our platform (icons, stickers, illustrations).
  • Knowledge of templating and design systems.
At Synthesia we expect everyone to:
  • Be an owner.
  • Focus on outcomes over Inputs and Plans.
  • Make the journey fun
  • Default to simple.

You can read more about this in this public Notion page: https://synthesia.notion.site/How-we-work-at-Synthesia-f794caa72f8446efb6be22b551ce0fa

You can expect the following in return...

💸 A competitive salary + stock options in our fast-growing Series C start-up.

📍 A hybrid environment. You’ll need to spend 1 day per week in our London office. 

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

🥳 Regular socials and company retreats.

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

🍼 Paid parental leave.

👉 A generous referral scheme.

💻 A brand new computer of your choice and the equipment you need to get your work done (if that still counts as a benefit in 2023 🤔)

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