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Product Manager, Interactive Avatars (Staff/Principal-level)

Synthesia· Product
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Hybrid (Seattle)Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Product Manager role responsible for the Interactive Avatars API and developer experience, driving beta-to-GA, defining the API surface, roadmap, pricing, and reliability, in collaboration with engineering, research, design partners, and GTM teams.

Responsibilities

  • Owning the end-to-end Interactive Avatar API. This is the developer-facing surface (SDK, integration patterns, docs), the real-time experience quality, and the path from closed beta to general availability, and defining what the roadmap looks like over the coming cycles
  • Getting close to the developers and teams building on the beta: understanding how they integrate, where the API fights them, which real-time behaviors make or break the experience, and what "production-ready" means to them
  • Translating that understanding into a clear product direction. What to build, in what order, and why, and keeping the team aligned as the strategy evolves
  • Working closely with the engineering and research teams building the real-time avatar stack; contributing clear specs, sound judgment on trade-offs (quality vs. latency vs. cost), and the context that helps them build the right thing the first time
  • Partnering with go-to-market and commercial teams to define how the API is packaged, priced, and sold - a real-time API has a fundamentally different business model from batch video, and shaping that is part of the job
  • Defining and tracking the metrics that tell us whether the product is working across adoption, integration success, real-time quality, reliability, and the commercial signals that prove it's a business

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in product, with direct experience owning a developer-facing API, SDK, or platform product
  • Comfortable operating in an early-stage, 0→1 environment where discovery and delivery happen in parallel and the roadmap is still being shaped
  • Strong technical fluency: you can hold a credible conversation with engineers about real-time systems, latency, and integration trade-offs, and make good calls without needing every answer handed to you
  • Strong written communication: you can write a spec, a strategy doc, or an API design rationale that others can act on without a follow-up conversation
  • Real-time / streaming media, conversational AI, or applied-AI product experience is a strong plus but not a prerequisite
  • Instinct for the commercial side of a developer product - adoption, packaging, and monetization is a plus
  • Based in Seattle or open to regular in-person time; the team is Seattle-anchored and that time matters

Skills

Required:Developer-facing API, SDK, or platform product ownershipAPI design and specs
Nice to have:Real-time / streaming mediaCommercialization of developer products

Benefits

  • You will be compensated well with a generous salary and equity
  • 25 days of annual leave + local holidays
  • Regular team offsites
  • Work from home budget
  • Work from anywhere policy of 60 days per year
  • Generous referral scheme
  • Enhanced parental leave - maternity leave includes 16 weeks at full pay, and paternity leave includes 5 weeks at full pay (or greater local statutory benefit)
  • Medical Insurance (USA)
  • Vision and Dental Insurance (USA)
  • Mental Health Support (USA)
  • Flex Benefits (FSA/HSA/Commuter) (USA)
  • 401k (USA)
  • Life Insurance (USA)
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Synthesia

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Synthesia is a #1 AI Video Platform for Business. Our AI Video Generator enables anyone to create professional videos without mics, cameras, actors, or studios. Using AI, we’re radically changing the process of video content creation, making it scalable and affordable while maintaining high quality.

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