Product Manager, Interactive Avatar API (Staff/Principal-level)

Synthesia
Seattle, London
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 240,000 - 395,000 annuallyFunction: Product ManagementExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Written communication","Spec writing","Technical fluency","Product strategy","Quality judgment"]

Own Synthesia’s Interactive Avatar API from closed beta to general availability. Partner with developers using the SDK and integration patterns to define production-ready real-time experiences, quality and reliability metrics, and the roadmap. Collaborate with engineering and research on specs and trade-offs across latency, expressiveness, and cost. Shape packaging, pricing, and go-to-market with commercial teams for a platform developers can build on.

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Synthesia
Synthesia
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Product Manager, Interactive Avatar API (Staff/Principal-level)

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Job Summary

Own Synthesia’s Interactive Avatar API from closed beta to general availability. Partner with developers using the SDK and integration patterns to define production-ready real-time experiences, quality and reliability metrics, and the roadmap. Collaborate with engineering and research on specs and trade-offs across latency, expressiveness, and cost. Shape packaging, pricing, and go-to-market with commercial teams for a platform developers can build on.
Location: Seattle, London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Product Management
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the end-to-end Interactive Avatar API (SDK, integration patterns, docs), driving quality and the beta-to-GA roadmap.
  • •Understand developer integrations and identify behaviors that make or break the user experience and production readiness.
  • •Translate feedback into clear product direction: what to build, in what order, and why, while keeping teams aligned.
  • •Work with engineering and research to provide clear specs and evaluate trade-offs across quality, latency, and cost.
  • •Partner with go-to-market and commercial teams on packaging, pricing, and defining/tracking success metrics.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 240,000 - 395,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceVisionDental401kLife Insurance

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years in product with direct experience owning a developer-facing API, SDK, or platform product.
  • •Experience operating in an early-stage 0→1 environment where discovery and delivery happen in parallel.
  • •Strong technical fluency to discuss real-time systems, latency, and integration trade-offs with engineers.
  • •Strong written communication to produce specs, strategy docs, and API design rationales.
  • •Comfort being Seattle-based (Seattle-anchored team) or open to regular in-person time.
Experience:5+ yearsDeveloper toolsPlatformsReal-time systemsStreaming mediaConversational AI
Skills:Written communicationSpec writingTechnical fluencyProduct strategyQuality judgment

Company Brief

Synthesia
Provides an AI video generation platform that creates realistic synthetic presenters and video content from text, enabling enterprises to produce scalable training, marketing, and communications videos without cameras or actors.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2017
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