Director, Business Partnering (People Team)

Welcome to the video-first world

From your everyday PowerPoint presentations to Hollywood movies AI will transform the way we create and consume content. Today people want to watch and listen not read both at home and at work. If youre reading this and nodding check out our brand video.

Despite the clear preference for video communication and knowledge sharing in the business environment are still dominated by text largely because high-quality video production remains complex and challenging to scaleuntil now

Meet Synthesia

Were on a mission to make video easy for everyone. Born in an AI lab our AI video communications platform simplifies the entire video production process making it easy for everyone regardless of skill level to create collaborate and share high-quality videos. Whether its for delivering essential training to employees and customers or marketing products and services Synthesia enables large organizations to communicate and share knowledge through video quickly and efficiently. Were trusted by leading brands such as Heineken Zoom Xerox McDonalds and more. Read stories from happy customers and what 1200 people say on G2.

In 2023 we were one of 7 European companies to reach unicorn February 2024 G2 named us as the fastest growing company in the 2025 we announced our series D total weve raised over $330M in funding from top-tier investors including NEA Atlassian Ventures WiL PSP Growth and existing investors such as Accel Nvidia Kleiner Perkins GV and top founders and operators including Stripe Datadog Miro Webflow and Facebook.

The Role

Were looking for a Director of Business Partnering to continue to build and lead our People Partnering function. This is a strategic high-impact role that will help shape the way our organisation scales during a period of hyper-growth.

Youll partner closely with our People Ops team and leaders across all divisions Product Engineering Commercial (Sales Marketing CS) Operations and G&A with a particular emphasis on strengthening our commercial partnering capabilities.

Youll be leading a phenomenal team of 3 People partners with a mandate to grow that team in order to support our fast growing organisation. We want to drive a People Partnering model that is:

• AI-first
• Deeply data and insight-driven
• Relentlessly business-oriented and strategic
• Designed to scale globally

What Youll Do

Lead the People Partnering Function

• Design and build the People Partnering model for a fast-scaling product-led AI company.
• Establish a strategic and consultative approach that ties People decisions directly to business outcomes.
• Develop frameworks for organisation design headcount planning succession talent management and change management.

Support Hyper-Growth & Organisational Scaling

• Anticipate organisational needs ahead of growth.
• Ensure we are set up to scale sustainably across regions and functions.
• Partner on workforce planning role design and leadership capability building.

Partner with Senior Leaders Across the Company together with People Partners

• Act as a trusted advisor to executives in Commercial Product & Engineering and Operations.
• Bring rigour insight and challenge to leadership decision-making.
• Translate business strategy into talent and organisation-scaling strategies.

Drive an AI-First Data-Driven People Partnering Practice

• Partner with our People Ops team to use insights dashboards AI tools and predictive data models to inform decision-making.
• Evaluate and implement AI-native processes that allow the People team to scale faster than headcount.
• Champion experimentation and automation across the People Partnering function.

Be a Cultural Influence

• Model Synthesias values and help leaders embed them across rapidly expanding teams.
• Contribute to a healthy high-performance culture during a period of fast evolution.

What Were Looking For

• Extensive experience in People Business Partnering roles including partnering closely with commercial GTM teams.
• Experience supporting high-growth tech or scaling organisations. Ideally have led function during hypergrowth: from 300-1000 employees.
• Ability to manage complexity across global regions with a focus on UK US France and DACH regions.
• Demonstrated ability to design and evolve org structures during rapid scale and leadership coaching.
• A data-driven structured problem-solver who uses insights dashboards and metrics in every recommendation.
• A builder mentality scrappy adaptable unphased by ambiguity and able to switch between strategy and execution.
• Clear confident communication and executive-level influencing skills.

Apply Now

If youre excited by the idea of scaling a world-class organisation powered by AI and you want to shape the future of work inside a company redefining video wed love to hear from you.