
At HeyGen, we help you grow your business through the magic of visual storytelling. Creating professional-quality videos can be daunting, but HeyGen makes it easy for everyone—no camera or specialized skills required.

At HeyGen, we help you grow your business through the magic of visual storytelling. Creating professional-quality videos can be daunting, but HeyGen makes it easy for everyone—no camera or specialized skills required.
Product: AI video generation platform for creating avatar-led videos from text/image/audio with translation/localization support
Founded: Dec 2020
Founders: Joshua Xu (Co‑Founder & CEO); Wayne Liang (Co‑Founder & CPO)
Funding stage: Series A (Benchmark lead)
Headcount (approx.): 320 employees (reported)
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Video creation at scale, personalization/localization of video content, and reducing production friction for marketing, learning & development, and sales.
2020
Online Audio and Video Media
$9M (reported)
Reported seed-era raise (company previously known as Movio); investors at that time included IDG, Sequoia Capital China, and Baidu Ventures.
$60M
Company announced a $60M Series A led by Benchmark and thanked participating investors including Thrive Capital, BOND, and SV Angel; Benchmark partner Victor Lazarte joined the board. Third‑party databases also list additional syndicate participants.
“Series A led by Benchmark with participation from investors such as Thrive Capital, BOND, SV Angel and additional syndicate participants including Conviction VC and individual investors (e.g., Dylan Field, Neil Mehta, Aviv Nevo); Benchmark added a board member (Victor Lazarte).”
About HeyGen At HeyGen, our mission is to make visual storytelling accessible to all. Over the last decade, visual content has become the preferred method of information creation, consumption, and retention. But the ability to create such content, in particular videos, continues to be costly and challenging to scale. Our ambition is to build technology that equips more people with the power to reach, captivate, and inspire audiences.
Learn more at www.heygen.com. Visit our Mission and Culture doc here.
Position Overview We’re looking for a talented, curious, driven, and self-starting data scientist to join our team. The ideal candidate is a critical thinker familiar with SaaS products and metrics, has a strong background in statistics and data modeling, can clearly communicate complex concepts to a variety of audiences, and is excited to partner with engineering to implement the data infrastructure and stack for a rapidly growing startup. This is a highly dynamic, fast-paced environment where you’ll be trusted with real ownership — from defining our data stack to shaping how insights guide our product roadmap.
You’ll help lay the foundation of our data culture, working across engineering, product, and business teams to ensure data drives decisions at every level.
Key Responsibilities Data Tooling & Culture
Product Analytics & Insights
Business Intelligence & Visualizations
Collaboration and Communication
Preferred Qualifications
What HeyGen Offers
Salary Range $120,000 – 145,000 annually
Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. HeyGen considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, and internal equity, as well as location, market and business considerations when extending an offer. As part of our total rewards package, HeyGen offers comprehensive benefits including a 401k plan, health benefits, generous PTO, a parental leave program and emotional health resources.
HeyGen is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Join us at HeyGen and be part of a team that's reshaping the world of visual storytelling!