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# Solutions Architect at Synthesia

- **Company:** [Synthesia](https://feeny.ai/companies/synthesia)
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-06-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/synthesia/317a64dc-8dc1-4deb-bbae-9e5d661c23b9/application

**Skills:** SaaS, APIs, Workflows, Integrations, Solution Architecture, Technical Consulting, Pre-Sales

> Synthesia seeks a Senior Solutions Architect to design customer solutions, lead implementations, and partner with Sales and Product teams. The role focuses on driving adoption, proving technical feasibility through PoCs, and scaling platform value for enterprise clients.

## Job description

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US.

As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations.

Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow.

## About the role

We’re looking for a Solutions Architect to help build and define this function at Synthesia. This is a critical role - you’ll shape how we partner with customers to drive adoption, value, and measurable business impact.You http://impact.You’ll work across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to design solutions that unlock value at scale. This is not just implementation - it’s about architecting customer success, proving what’s possible, and accelerating customers toward full platform maturity.You http://maturity.You will be both strategic advisor and technical architect, helping customers:

- Make the right technical decisions
- Deploy the product and integrations successfully
- Operationalize change and scale
- Connect use cases to business outcomes

This role blends technical hands-on depth, commercial awareness, executive influence, and platform thinking.

## What you’ll do

- Lead customer implementations end-to-end, ensuring adoption, measurable outcomes, and long-term scalability.
- Design architectures that map Synthesia’s capabilities to high-value customer use cases.
- Partner with Sales on solution scoping, proposals, API demos, and deal strategy.
- Build proofs of concept to demonstrate the art of the possible and accelerate customer buy-in.
- Create playbooks, frameworks, and integration patterns that help us scale how we deliver value.
- Act as a trusted advisor to technical and business stakeholders — including VP- and C-level audiences.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering to bring the voice of the customer into platform evolution.
- Contribute to platform thinking — helping shape how we scale Synthesia from product → ecosystem.

## What we’re looking for

- 5+ years in Solutions Architecture, Technical Consulting, or Pre-Sales within a SaaS environment
- Strong project & stakeholder management across multiple workstreams
- Hands-on experience working with APIs, workflows, or integrations
- Excellent storytelling and communication skills — able to engage technical and executive teams
- A commercial mindset — understanding how architecture drives adoption, retention, and expansion
- Proven experience building scalable frameworks, architectures, or delivery models
- Curiosity, initiative, and a builder mentality — with comfort navigating ambiguity in a high-growth environment

## About Synthesia

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Synthesia is an all-in-one AI video platform that enables businesses to create, localize, manage, and publish professional-quality videos using AI avatars and voiceovers, without any filming equipment or video editing skills.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Victor Riparbelli (CEO), Prof. Lourdes Agapito, Steffen Tjerrild (COO), Prof. Matt Niessner

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Video Platform / Enterprise SaaS / Creative Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (trusted by 50,000+ teams globally, including 90% of the Fortune 100)
- **Mission statement**: "Helping people work better" — transforming how organizations train, onboard, and upskill their employees with AI.

## Products & Services
- **Synthesia AI Video Platform (Core)**: Full-stack SaaS platform for creating AI videos. Includes AI avatars (240+), AI voices in 160+ languages, 1-click translation, real-time team collaboration, version control, brand kit management, analytics (views, drop-offs, completion rates), and SCORM export for LMS integration.
- **AI Avatars**: Customizable, expressive AI avatars that speak 160+ languages. Users can also create their own custom avatar.
- **AI Screen Recorder**: Polished screen recordings with instant transcripts (removes 'ums' and 'uhs'), editable and translatable.
- **Multilingual Video Player**: Single player to watch and organize videos in 160+ languages.
- **AI Video Assistant & Academy**: Tutorials and onboarding tools to help users create videos quickly.
- **Enterprise Security Suite**: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, ISO 42001 compliant, with SAML/SSO. Designed to satisfy the toughest legal and security teams at Fortune 100 companies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/ Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (last known funding round: Series C, $180M raised, led by Accel and Nvidia in 2023, valuing the company at $1B+ — Unicorn status).
- **Key Metric**: **$100M+ Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)** — announced by COO & Co-founder Steffen Tjerrild in a public LinkedIn post [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/steffentjerrild_probably-the-milestone-im-most-proud-of-activity-7317848922612224001-UuZ1)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Accel, Nvidia (lead Series C), with previous investors including Kleiner Perkins, GV, FirstMark Capital, and MMC Ventures. The company has an active partnership ecosystem including integrations with LMS providers and enterprise tooling.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Crossed $100M ARR (strong product-market fit and revenue growth).
  - Used by 90% of the Fortune 100 and 50,000+ teams.
  - Engineering team scaled from 0 to 80+ engineers.
  - Over 1M+ users on the platform.
  - Hiring in 26+ countries with offices in London and NYC.
  - Continues to expand product suite (AI avatars, video agents, analytics, and skill development products).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary AI & Avatars**: Deep AI research spanning computer vision, graphics, and NLP (co-founders from Stanford, Cambridge, UCL, TUM). Avatars are highly expressive and support 160+ languages with accurate lip-sync.
- **Enterprise Security & Compliance**: SOC2, GDPR, ISO42001, SAML/SSO — a key differentiator for Fortune 100 clients who require stringent security.
- **End-to-End Platform**: Combines creation, localization, management, analytics, and version control in one tool — reducing reliance on multiple vendors and agencies.
- **AI Ethics-First**: 10% of the team is dedicated to AI safety and ethics, a strong trust signal for enterprise buyers.
- **Velocity & Innovation**: Engineering team delivers meaningful features every few days, not weeks, enabling rapid iteration.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enterprise Scale & Platform Depth**: Deepening integrations with enterprise tooling (LMS, security suites) and expanding video product suite (Avatars, Agents, skill development).
- **Global Localization**: Strengthening 160+ language support and 1-click translation to serve multinational enterprises.
- **AI Ethics & Trust**: Maintaining a dedicated ethics team and proactive AI policy engagement to stay ahead of regulation and build customer trust.
- **Product Expansion**: Moving from video creation to a broader "visual communication" platform including AI Agents and analytics-driven optimization.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Scaling the global team across engineering, research, and go-to-market functions, with a focus on high-velocity engineering culture.

## Why Work Here
- **Global & Remote-First Culture**: Team spans 26+ countries. Offices in London and NYC, with remote work flexibility. Roughly 80% of London HQ staff are immigrants, fostering a diverse, international environment.
- **High-Velocity Engineering**: Engineers deliver meaningful features every few days (no long releases). Minimal meetings and SCRUM ceremonies — a focus on building and shipping.
- **Growth & Ownership**: Real ownership from day one. Clear progression paths, annual learning budget, access to courses and conferences.
- **People-First & AI Ethics**: 10% of team dedicated to AI safety. Strong emphasis on work-life balance with competitive compensation, PTO, and benefits.
- **H-1B Friendly**: CEO Victor Riparbelli has publicly highlighted that the London office provides a strong alternative to US visa uncertainty, with ~80% of staff being immigrants.
- **Top-Tier Team**: Founders and engineering leadership from Stanford, Cambridge, UCL, TUM, and top tech companies.

## Sources
1. [synthesia.io/about](https://www.synthesia.io/about)
2. [synthesia.io](https://www.synthesia.io/)
3. [synthesia.io/careers](https://www.synthesia.io/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/synthesia-technologies](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/synthesia-technologies)
5. [pitchbook.com/profiles/company/267090-49](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/267090-49)
6. [linkedin.com/posts/steffentjerrild](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/steffentjerrild_probably-the-milestone-im-most-proud-of-activity-7317848922612224001-UuZ1)
7. [linkedin.com/posts/victorriparbelli](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/victorriparbelli_h-1bs-are-causing-a-lot-of-uncertainty-right-activity-7375861659610836993-UULl?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABVaNoYBu2QiVriT0MMLe-cbAPv2sPNI2cA)

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