Synthesia

AI avatar video generation
Last updated:
January 23, 2026
Company details
HQ
HEADCOUNT
500-999
ORG TYPE
Startup
SECTOR
Technology & Digital
About the company
Synthesia is a London-headquartered AI video platform that lets businesses create avatar-led videos and voiceovers from text for training, enablement, and communications. Synthesia was founded in 2017 and is led by co-founder Victor Riparbelli (CEO), alongside co-founders Steffen Tjerrild (COO and co-founder), Prof. Matt Niessner, and Prof. Lourdes Agapito. Synthesia markets a remote-friendly setup with offices across major European hubs and New York.
Locations and presence
Synthesia lists offices in London, New York City, Copenhagen, Munich, Amsterdam, and Zurich, and also describes a remote-friendly working model. Synthesia hires across the UK, Europe, and the US, with role setups spanning office-based, hybrid, and remote-by-timezone.
Palpable Score
70.2
/ 100
Synthesia offers real early-career entry points in customer-facing and creative roles, with junior job ads that spell out day-to-day work and explicitly frame learning alongside senior teammates. Where Synthesia is weaker is consistency across functions: public hiring writing says engineering recruitment skews senior, and the company does not publish enough retention and promotion data to judge early-career outcomes beyond role promises and review sentiment.
Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

13.8
/ 20
  • The company has open roles explicitly titled “Junior”, including Junior Technical Support Specialist and Junior Digital Designer, with experience bands like 1+ year or 1–2 years.
  • Synthesia also hires entry-level corporate roles like Sales Commissions Analyst that are labelled “Entry level”, widening access beyond support and design.
  • The company’s own engineering hiring writing says Synthesia targets engineers with deep technical experience, which narrows entry-level access in core product engineering.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

14.8
/ 20
  • The company’s role pages lay out responsibilities, “success will be measured on” metrics, and working-hours expectations even for junior roles, which reduces hidden gotchas.
  • Synthesia publicly describes a staged interview approach for technical roles that includes early alignment calls and a take-home component, so candidates can anticipate the shape of the process.
  • The company’s Junior Digital Designer application asks candidates to create and submit a Synthesia video link during the application form, which is role-relevant but increases the upfront burden before

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

16.0
/ 20
  • The company says junior support hires will apply troubleshooting under guidance from senior team members and work closely with Technical Support Specialists and Engineers.
  • Synthesia frames the Junior Digital Designer role as real customer-facing work inside a supportive design team, with an explicitly mapped growth path from Junior to Senior.
  • The company advertises research internships that include working alongside researchers and co-founders with an expectation of publishable work, which is unusually strong senior exposure for students.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

13.8
/ 20
  • The company lists stable benefits for junior roles, including stock options, paid parental leave, 25 days annual leave plus holidays, sick leave, and equipment.
  • Synthesia posts explicit salary ranges for some roles, such as a US-based Sales Commissions Analyst range of $80,000–$120,000, which is a concrete transparency signal.
  • The company does not consistently publish salary ranges for UK junior roles and instead asks applicants to state their required salary range, which limits pay clarity for early-career candidates.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

11.8
/ 20
  • The company advertises paid internships with an explicit possibility of moving into a full-time product role if there is a mutual fit, which is a concrete early-career pathway.
  • Synthesia’s junior design role states a mapped progression from Junior to Senior, but the company does not publish promotion or retention metrics that show how often that progression happens in practice.
  • The company has public review and interview sentiment at a headline level, but there is limited early-career-specific evidence on 12–24 month retention, leveling, or internal mobility for junior cohorts.

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