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Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US.\nAs 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.\nFollowing 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.\nThe role...\nSynthesia's API and platform capabilities are quickly becoming the way developers embed AI video into their own products - automated training pipelines, localization workflows, customer-facing apps, and more. We're looking for our first Developer Advocate to make sure the developer world knows it, understands it, and gets building.\nThis is a builder-and-storyteller role. You'll be the face and voice of the Synthesia API to the outside world - writing, coding, speaking, and showing up wherever developers already are - while also being the internal champion who brings their feedback back into the product. You won't just talk about what's possible with Synthesia; you'll build the sample apps, tutorials, and demos that prove it, and you'll do it consistently enough that developers start to recognize your name before they recognize the logo.\nYou'll be part of the Developer Services team and work closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Developer Support to turn technical capability into developer adoption.\nWhat You'll Do\nCreate technical content that developers actually use\nWrite blog posts, tutorials, and how-to guides that show real, working integrations - not just feature announcements\n\nBuild and maintain sample apps, starter kits, and code snippets across common languages and frameworks\n\nProduce video walkthroughs and livestreams using Synthesia's own product wherever it makes sense to \"eat our own dog food\"\n\nKeep a fast, honest cadence - regular, dependable output builds more trust than occasional big launches\n\nShow up where developers are\nRepresent Synthesia at conferences, meetups, hackathons, and webinars - as a speaker, workshop host, and booth presence\n\nRun livestreams and community AMAs that go deep on real implementation questions, not marketing talking points\n\nBuild relationships with individual developers, technical bloggers, and community leaders who influence adoption\n\nTravel as needed to be physically present in the communities that matter most to our growth\n\nBe the credible technical voice\nGet hands-on with the Synthesia API well enough to build things yourself, debug alongside developers, and speak with authority - not from a script\n\nEarn trust the way any evangelist does: by being genuinely useful before asking for anything in return\n\nPlay the long game - plant seeds in developer communities today that turn into adoption months or years down the line\n\nClose the loop with product\nChannel developer feedback, friction points, and feature requests back to Product and Engineering in a structured way\n\nPartner with Developer Support and Documentation to identify where the API's rough edges are creating support burden or lost adoption\n\nHelp prioritize the developer experience roadmap based on what you're hearing on the ground\n\nBuild the flywheel\nGrow and nurture channels - Discord/Slack community, developer newsletter, social - where developers can find each other and find help\n\nIdentify and cultivate community advocates and early power users who can become case studies, co-speakers, or contributors\n\nMeasure what's working (content engagement, API sign-ups, community growth, sentiment) and adjust the playbook accordingly\n\nAbout you...\nExperience in developer relations, developer advocacy, technical evangelism, or a similar hybrid technical/communication role - ideally at a platform, API-first, or infrastructure company\n\nGenuinely hands-on: comfortable writing code, working with APIs and SDKs, and building demo apps yourself, not just narrating what engineering built\n\nA strong, authentic communicator across formats - written, live, and on stage - who can make technical concepts land with a developer audience\n\nComfortable with regular travel and public speaking; 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