Senior People Partner (AI)

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid

Company

Synthesia develops an AI video platform for business and enterprise skill development, with headquarters in London and offices and teams across Europe and the US.

What you will do

• Partner with leaders on organisational design, role clarity, and structures that support growth and impact.
• Use attrition, engagement, performance, and talent distribution data to assess organisational health and set priorities.
• Advise and coach managers and senior leaders on performance, feedback, accountability, talent development, and complex people challenges.
• Support succession planning, performance calibration, and development of critical talent.
• Own key People initiatives from strategy and design through delivery, ensuring meaningful outcomes.
• Handle complex performance, employee relations, and organisational issues while partnering with Talent, People Ops, and Total Rewards teams and using AI and automation to improve decision-making.

Requirements

• Significant experience as a People Partner, HR Business Partner, or in a similar strategic HR role.
• First-hand experience in organisations that are scaling, with an understanding of how People practices must evolve at different growth stages.
• Track record of advising senior leaders on organisational design, talent, performance, and leadership decisions.
• Strong organisational diagnostic skills, including the ability to connect people data, business performance, and leadership behaviour to identify root causes.
• Commercial acumen and the ability to understand how organisational decisions influence productivity and business outcomes.
• Experience handling complex performance and employee relations matters while balancing business needs, employee experience, and risk.
• Excellent relationship-building and influencing skills, with confidence to challenge senior stakeholders while maintaining trust.
• Strong written and spoken communication in English.

Nice to have

• Experience in a high-growth technology, SaaS, or AI business.
• Interest in using AI and technology to improve how People teams and businesses operate.
• Comfort building plans and executing them independently as well as advising on strategy.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a scaling AI video platform with teams across Europe and the US.
• Collaborate with senior leaders and specialist People teams across Talent, People Ops, and Total Rewards.
• Work in a hybrid arrangement based in London.