Product Designer, Generative Media (Staff-Level / L6)

Company: Synthesia
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this Staff Product Designer role, you will lead design for the AI Playground, a cross-format generative-media workspace that turns experiments into polished videos. You’ll set the product’s design direction, collaborate with product and engineering, and raise the craft of AI-enabled creation. You’ll shape how users explore AI capabilities across formats while ensuring coherent experiences across Playground, Studio, and related tools. This is a high-impact, fast-moving opportunity to help define a market-defining product.

Pay / Benefits

  • remote friendly role based out of Europe or hubs in London, Copenhagen, Munich, or Zurich
  • 25 days of annual leave + public holidays
  • generous referral scheme
  • work from home set up
  • work from anywhere for up to 60 days per year
  • career growth opportunity shaping a market-defining product

Responsibilities

  • Own Playground evolution end-to-end from single-format surface to a scalable multi-format creation hub
  • Set design direction for discovery, experimentation, and iteration across all formats
  • Influence adjacent product areas (Studio, Media Library) to maintain coherence
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to define what ‘great’ looks like (principles, quality bar, metrics)
  • Prototype and test interaction models quickly; decide when high-fidelity matters versus learning through Lo-Fi
  • Raise the bar on craft: prompt UX, format balance, iteration workflows, and the feel of AI-driven creation

Key requirements

  • Significant experience designing creation tools or generative-media platforms
  • Strong craft in interaction and visual design with a track record of shipping delightful experiences
  • Comfort designing around AI model constraints and building UX that works within them
  • Systems thinking to balance Playground as destination and on-ramp to Studio
  • Experience designing multi-format products with balanced treatment across formats
  • Excellent communication in design reviews and cross-functional tradeoffs between user delight and business goals
  • Proven ability to tackle novel problems in fast-moving generative-media spaces and translate feedback into scalable platforms
  • strong communication
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • problem-solving under ambiguity
  • interaction design
  • visual design
  • prompt UX

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Posted: September 30th, 2026