Synthesia

Solutions Engineering Manager

Synthesia
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Responsibilities

  • Hire, ramp, manage, and develop a regional team of 5–10 Solutions Engineers.
  • Run one-on-ones, deal reviews, coaching, and career development conversations while building an inclusive team culture.
  • Lead and reinforce presales activities including research, discovery, demonstrations, workshops, Proofs of Concept, champion building, and customer-success handover.
  • Design and evolve demo methodology across Studio, Roleplay Sessions, and Interactive Avatars.
  • Build and maintain demo environments, reusable assets, evaluation guides, and objection-handling materials with product and operations teams.
  • Drive consistent use of AI tools across call preparation, demo delivery, discovery documentation, and follow-up workflows.
  • Own presales forecasting, pipeline hygiene, performance reporting, win rates, and Proofs of Concept throughput.
  • Partner with Sales leadership on account strategy, territory planning, and opportunity resourcing.
  • Surface deal risks, timelines, technical dependencies, product gaps, field feedback, and competitive intelligence.
  • Coach Solutions Engineers on expert discovery, Proofs of Concept, executive readouts, MEDDPICC, and Command of the Message.

Requirements

  • Experience recruiting, managing, and developing Solutions Engineering or presales teams.
  • Experience owning the employee lifecycle from hiring and onboarding through development and promotions, including teams built from scratch and inherited teams.
  • Progression from Solutions Engineering individual contributor work to complex problem solving, product partnership, and business-area expertise.
  • Track record of improving team performance through coaching, hands-on deal support, and consistent execution of presales processes.
  • Experience owning presales forecasting, pipeline hygiene, and performance reporting.
  • Fluency in MEDDPICC and Command of the Message, with the ability to coach both new and experienced Solutions Engineers.
  • Clear, inclusive communication skills spanning deep technical detail and executive-level value narratives.
  • Collaborative leadership style and experience partnering with Sales, Product, Customer Success, and Product Marketing leadership.

Benefits

  • Hybrid NYC work arrangement requiring 2–3 days per week in the office depending on business needs.
  • 60 days of work from anywhere annually.

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Solutions Engineering
Synthesia

About Synthesia

501-1,000 employees

Synthesia builds an AI video creation platform that lets businesses generate videos from text using avatars, voiceovers, and templates, with enterprise controls for scale and compliance. It operates a cloud-based subscription model serving training, internal communications, and marketing teams. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, the privately held company reports widespread adoption across the Fortune 100.

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