Director, Business Partnering (People Team)
Location
London
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Hybrid
Department
OperationsPeople
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 organisations.
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 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.
You'll 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.
You'll 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 You'll 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 Synthesia's values and help leaders embed them across rapidly expanding teams.
- Contribute to a healthy, high-performance culture during a period of fast evolution.
What We're 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.
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